One Industries Terminates Contract of Ryan Dungey

Chili · Jan 7, 2009

San Diego, CA

Effective immediately, ONE Industries is terminating our 3 year contract with Ryan Dungey as a result of the recent events that have transpired during the last week.

"ONE Industries is an icon in the industry and when we launched our motocross apparel line we wanted to work with riders that we believed shared our ambitions and vision for the brand," says Danny Dobey, ONE Industries Brand Manager.

"Because our business is continually developing and growing in multiple directions we seek out riders and teams who want to contribute to the exciting and positive things we do, our introduction of Ryan showed the level of commitment and investment we were making in this project," adds Russ Koza, Marketing Manager of ONE Industries.

Neil Calvesbert, CEO of ONE Industries, comments, "We signed a 3 year contract with Ryan and we were looking beyond that with the brand, so nobody enjoyed making this decision. Everyone involved with ONE Industries gives 100% to the company, the teams and riders we work with and I would like to thank them for their devotion, professionalism and nobility throughout the events that took place at Anaheim."

http://www.racerxonline.com/article/one-industries-and-ryan-dungey-part-ways.aspx

Guess One wasn't thrilled with Ryan's behavior at A1 and threats that he was going to terminate his contract over them signing Jason Lawrence.

SMMWest · Jan 7, 2009

Motocross brats today. Wow.

XRpredator · Jan 7, 2009

I guess they beat him to the punch with the termination.

Sawblade · Jan 7, 2009

Maybe he will end up at Fly Racing? :coocoo:

2-Strokes 4-ever · Jan 8, 2009

No One Industries stuff for me either.
Since they now sponsor Jerk-Law, I think prison-stripe gear would be appropriate.

Ol'89r · Jan 8, 2009

At least Ryan has a little personal integrity. Something that is sorely missing from many, many people these days.

Certainly didn't hurt him any. Fox gear just picked him up.

XRpredator · Jan 8, 2009

Ol'89r said:
Certainly didn't hurt him any. Fox gear just picked him up.

saw that coming, since Fox didn't want anything to do with Lawrence.

Wolf · Jan 8, 2009

Never liked their stuff anyway. Won't buy any for the kids either.

tweek49 · Jan 8, 2009

You have got to be kidding me...

whenfoxforks-ruled · Jan 8, 2009

Wolf said:
Never liked their stuff anyway. Won't buy any for the kids either.

One industries? RD came out better, IMO.

Wolf · Jan 9, 2009

nahh, I'm not kidding at all. I'm old. I remember the real bad boys in our sport, a la Hannah...I have no room for pretenders like J-law (there is more to it than just being a good rider), and since it's my pocket book, I vote with it the way I feel is right.

Micahdawg · Jan 9, 2009

Ol'89r said:
At least Ryan has a little personal integrity. Something that is sorely missing from many, many people these days.

Certainly didn't hurt him any. Fox gear just picked him up.

Integrity yes, Diplomacy no. He should have controlled his emotions a bit more and not aired his frustrations in public. I think he would have had more success meeting privately with ONE about it. Then again, hindsight is 20/20.

Ol'89r · Jan 9, 2009

Micahdawg said:
Integrity yes, Diplomacy no. He should have controlled his emotions a bit more and not aired his frustrations in public. .

Yeah! Kinda' like Lawerence controls his emotions. :rotfl:

RD's lucky he was wearing a helmet or he might be missing an ear. :yikes:

Don't forget, this stuff sells tickets.

Vic · Jan 9, 2009

Ol'89r said:
Don't forget, this stuff sells tickets.

That's the nitty gritty.

whenfoxforks-ruled · Jan 9, 2009

New promoters eh? Bring on the mud wrestling!

tweek49 · Jan 9, 2009

Wolf said:
nahh, I'm not kidding at all. I'm old. I remember the real bad boys in our sport, a la Hannah...I have no room for pretenders like J-law (there is more to it than just being a good rider), and since it's my pocket book, I vote with it the way I feel is right.

No, I meant Dungey terminating his contract with ONE just because he was on a team with J-Law.

rickyd · Jan 10, 2009

Ol'89r said:
Yeah! Kinda' like Lawerence controls his emotions. :rotfl:

RD's lucky he was wearing a helmet or he might be missing an ear. :yikes:

Don't forget, this stuff sells tickets.

Not only old, but Smart too :cool: :ride:

funkypunk97 · Jan 13, 2009

There is more to this back behind the walls than it seems.....

Dungey asked ONE that they not sign Lawrence because Dungey didn't want to have to be seen in any adds with Lawrence. ONE got greedy and wanted both sides of the coin. They wanted to have a "good versus evil, but still ONE" type of thing. So Dungey asked to get out of the deal, he did not want anything to do with that angle. The only way ONE agreed to let him out without a penalty was to be them terminating his deal and to do that Dungey had to sign with another gear company. Fox just about immediately jumped into the mix, as they tried to get Dungey prior to him going to ONE.

I don't blame Dungey........he did what he felt was right.

Micahdawg · Jan 13, 2009

Where are you getting this info if you don't mind me asking?

It seems pretty clear to me that if Dungey absolutely positively couldn't handle being associated with Lawrence, that he make it a mandatory part of the contract that he not appear in any ads with Lawrence or otherwise be associated with him. Presto, fixed. If One wouldn't go for that, then he didn't have to sign and could shop elsewhere.

To not have that as a part of his contract just invites a mess like this. He obviously wasn't too hung up with making the deal with ONE work, if he was so quick to threaten to leave. I dunno....just weird. I think he needs to just quit talking about him because all it does is prove Lawrence really is in his head. And any questions from Erin should be met with "No Comment."

XRpredator · Jan 13, 2009

Micahdawg said:
It seems pretty clear to me that if Dungey absolutely positively couldn't handle being associated with Lawrence, that he make it a mandatory part of the contract that he not appear in any ads with Lawrence or otherwise be associated with him. Presto, fixed. If One wouldn't go for that, then he didn't have to sign and could shop elsewhere.

That would be great, but I believe they signed Dungey well before they signed Lawrence. Dungey did not know Lawrence would be going to One (heck, I don't think Lawrence did either) so it was a non-issue at that point.

whenfoxforks-ruled · Jan 13, 2009

Did you catch RD's new butt patch? "Perfect Fit"?

Deadohiosky39 · Jan 13, 2009

^haha I'm going to have to pay attention more often.

XRpredator said:
That would be great, but I believe they signed Dungey well before they signed Lawrence.

^Yep

tweek49 · Jan 13, 2009

I just don't see what the big deal is. Terminating a contract just because he was on a team with someone he doesn't care for? That's something I barely even see in high school, the teenage girls at least act like they like the other one THEN talk **** behind they're back? :ugg:

Micahdawg · Jan 13, 2009

XRpredator said:
That would be great, but I believe they signed Dungey well before they signed Lawrence. Dungey did not know Lawrence would be going to One (heck, I don't think Lawrence did either) so it was a non-issue at that point.

Like I said, if it's that big of a deal, then he should be putting it in all his contracts. If Lawrence ends up twiggin back on a Rockstar, is RD going to refuse to drink Rockstar?

Vic · Jan 14, 2009

Dungey just doesn't want to be associated with a jackass punk like JL. It's not complicated.

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