Once rival promotions, Resurrection Fighting Alliance (RFA) and Legacy Fighting Championship (Legacy FC) are now one.
Ed Soares, the president of RFA and a longtime MMA manager, announced Monday on The MMA Hour that the two promotions will be merging at the beginning of 2017 to form Legacy Fighting Alliance (LFA). An official press release followed.
Soares will head LFA as the new promotion’s CEO alongside RFA executive Sven Bean, who will act as the COO. Mick Maynard, the now-former president of Legacy FC, will not be part of LFA — he was recently hired as a matchmaker by the UFC.