Shuffle makes unbeaten Carlos Diego Ferreira-Chris Feist new Legacy FC 24 main

The Legacy FC 24 card has undergone a little shuffling the last couple days, and now a battle between a pair of unbeaten lightweights will be the main event.

Chris Feist (8-0) and Carlos Diego Ferreira (7-0) will square off in the headlining bout of next month’s card. Legacy FC promoter Mick Maynard confirmed the new lineup to MMAjunkie.com.

Legacy FC 24 takes place Oct. 11 event at Allen Event Center in Allen, Texas. The main card airs on AXS TV.

The card’s main event was expected to be between Ryan Benoit (6-2) and UFC and WEC veteran Damacio Page (16-8). WIth Page bumped from the show with an injury, Benoit will meet Cody Fuller (10-6). But instead of that bout serving as the main event, it will be bumped down two notches to a featured spot on the main card, with Feist-Ferreira and Henry Cejudo (4-0) vs. Ryan Hollis (4-1) moving up to the co-main event.

Feist will make his Legacy debut on the strength of five straight stoppage wins. He’s 3-0 so far in 2013 with three straight submissions, all chokes under the C3 Fights banner in Oklahoma. Feist, a 29-year-old Texan, will be fighting not far from his home town of Arlington, which like Allen is a suburb of Dallas.

Ferreira will look to build on his Legacy debut win over UFC veteran Carlo Prater at Legacy FC 20 in May. He took a unanimous decision from the veteran fighter on that card. But like Feist, he’s a Texan well-versed on the ground. Five of his seven wins are by submission.

The adjusted Legacy FC 24 lineup now includes:

MAIN CARD (AXS TV, 10 p.m. ET)

• Carlos Diego Ferreira vs. Chris Feist
• Henry Cejudo vs. Ryan Hollis
• Ryan Benoit vs. Damacio Page
• Charles Byrd vs. Mike Jasper
• Holly Holm vs. Nikki Knudsen
• Damon Jackson vs. Javier Obregon

PRELIMINARY CARD (Untelevised, 8 p.m. ET)

• Matthew Lozano vs. Klayton Mai
• Evan Thompson vs. Edgar Verdin
• Eliazar Rodriguez vs. Eli Tamez
• Sean Holden vs. Melvin Jordan
• Douglas Frey vs. Hunter Tucker

For more on Legacy FC 24, including the night’s official fight card, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.

(Pictured: Chris Feist)