Jeff Borris, the veteran MLB agent who is trying to unionize the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), said he will introduce two advisory boards, one made up of MMA agents and another of UFC fighters, this week.

Borris, who announced plans in August to form a union for UFC fighters, would not name the board members last week but said he expected to have about five agents and nine fighters, both men and women, on the boards.

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If he does get 30 percent, that could start a process rolling at the National Labor Relations Board, but it could take two or three years to resolve if the UFC chooses to fight unionization, said Bill Gould, Stanford Law School professor and former chairman of the NLRB.

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“Thirty percent is the threshold to hold an election,” Gould said. But before holding an election, the NLRB would have to resolve the question of whether UFC fighters are employees or independent contractors.

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The NLRB could determine the answer to that question in a matter of months, Gould said. But if the NLRB decides to hold the election and unionization wins, the UFC could “refuse to bargain and they could appeal that to the court of appeals,” which would add time to the process.