Before there was the Resurrection Fighting Alliance (RFA), there was Ed Soares — the manager.
Soares, who has long made a name for himself as the manager of perhaps the best pound-for-pound fighter of all time, Anderson Silva — as well as overseeing the careers of other champions such as Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Jose Aldo and Lyoto Machida — will be giving up the reins as a fighter manager in early 2017. That's when his new venture, the Legacy Fighting Championship Legacy Fighting Alliance gets rolling.
On Monday Soares announced that Legacy FC and his RFA are merging to form one promotion, LFA to kick off 2017.