Phumi Nkuta<\/a> being potentially a stoppage win away from getting his opportunity, it will be just another name Soares and LFA will have to say goodbye to, which is as easy as a farewell gets in this crazy sport. <\/p>\n\u201cYeah, it is [surreal to see our fighters get signed to the UFC], but that\u2019s what we do it for,\u201d Soares said. \u201cIt\u2019s really easy for these guys [in other promotions] nowadays to say, \u2018Oh yeah, we\u2019re developmental.\u2019 Well, where were you guys back in 2012 when the RFA was the first organization that I was the president of, that we were the first organization and you could look back and look at interviews that we said, \u2018We\u2019re a developmental organization for the UFC.\u2019 That\u2019s what we\u2019ve always been. That\u2019s what we always do.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then people saw that it was working and then all of a sudden, it seems like people would read my interviews and they start taking things that were said because now everybody\u2019s a developmental organization. But we were the first to do it, and we are the best to do it. And that\u2019s not [just] statistically, that\u2019s anything. Go to ChatGPT and put what\u2019s the No. 1 mixed martial arts developmental organization? And I guarantee you we\u2019re going be there. It\u2019s not even an opinion, it\u2019s like statistically, look at it. I mean, nobody\u2019s done what we\u2019ve done.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one is going to do what we do because we just keep getting better, and just keep pulling away from the pack. And that\u2019s what we set out to do, which is be the No. 1 developmental organization in the world. And now I just want to smash everyone else and just keep getting better and better and better, and just push more and more and develop more talent. That\u2019s my goal, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LFA CEO Ed Soares has seen fighters from his organization get signed to the UFC for many, many…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[15341,64,63,37491,7504,12585,13962,786,585,10870,37490,1347,15805,37492,785,37494,1628,37493,85,9501,787,1396,8045,317,316,36434],"class_list":["post-42659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-always","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bia","tag-by","tag-ceo","tag-do","tag-fighting","tag-front-page","tag-get","tag-knew","tag-latest-news","tag-lfa","tag-mesquita","tag-mma","tag-quickly","tag-s","tag-scooped","tag-sports","tag-that","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-up","tag-we","tag-what","tag-would"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}