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On Thursday, Legacy Fighting Alliance announced that it would be linking up with Vice TV for the entirety of 2026. Per the agreement, Vice TV will broadcast 25 live events throughout the year, the first of which LFA 224 on Jan. 16 in Prior Lake, Minnesota.
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For several years prior, the LFA operated with its events airing on UFC Fight Pass. While the rumors that Fight Pass was disintegrating proved unfounded, a few leagues did change their arrangements including this company, as well as Unified MMA and Samourai MMA in Canada. UAE Warriors and Lux Fight League both reportedly re-upped their deal with UFC Fight Pass, with unconfirmed claims that the UFC had changed the terms.
LFA is Back on Television
Before it worked with UFC Fight Pass, the LFA—a merged entity of the now-defunct Resurrection Fighting Alliance and Legacy Fighting Championship leagues—ran its events on the AXS TV network. According to the release, Vice TV remains as part of roughly 40 million cable and subscription packages in the U.S., and it appears that it also has a channel on Brazilian television as well.
LFA CEO Ed Soares included a statement in the release, which read:
“We are excited to announced an exciting new partnership with Vice TV,” Soares wrote. “The LFA’s mission has always been to showcase the sport’s top up-and-coming fighters in front of the widest audience possible. Vice has built a loyal audience that values authenticity and is known for its unfiltered, ground-level storytelling. Together, this partnership will bring the untold stories of the athletes shaping the future of the sport to a national television audience, significantly increasing fighter visibility.
Vice exec Josh Oakley was equally charged about this news, briefly adding, “We are excited to work and partner with the LFA and give MMA fans a new home to watch the next generation of elite fighters compete live.”
In addition to the Jan. 16 show, the LFA currently has events on Jan. 23, Feb. 6 and Feb. 27 on the books in Brasilia, Brazil; Clarksville, Tennessee; and Ventura, California, respectively. It is currently unclear if any events with the Professional Fighters League will collide with the new LFA offerings. In November, the PFL declared that it would air eight of its PFL MENA and PFL Africa events in 2026 on Vice TV—it also stated that the two 2025 events would run live on the Vice TV airwaves, but they were both tape-delayed to run primetime stateside.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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