An MMA promoter announced earlier this month that it has purchased a well-known fighter management firm, raising eyebrows about a potential conflict of interest.
Alliance MMA, the parent company of a group of regional promotions, acquired SuckerPunch Entertainment, which boasts such clients as Max Holloway and Rose Namajunas, in January. Alliance recently became a public traded company with an IPO.
Though the same company or person being both a promoter and manager has been done numerous times in MMA going back years, there is a rule against it in Nevada, and the Ali Act extension to MMA, with legislation currently in Congress, forbids it.