Thales Leites Is Focused On Winning

With his recent release by the UFC, Brazilian middleweight Thales Leites (14-3) is looking to bounce back from his back-to-back losses by getting back into the ring as quickly as possible.

Leites has agreed to sign with the Maximum Fighting Championship organization in Edmonton, Canada and is looking to face his first opponent on Dec. 4. Uncertain of who his first fight will be against, Leites talked with Tatame.com about his reasons for signing with the Canadian organization and his future expectations.

Tatame: When will you fight again?
Thales Leites: I’ll fight on MFC, on Canada, on December 4. I don’t know who’s gonna be my opponent yet, actually I didn’t sign the contract yet. Ed (Soares) said it was all right, that he’ll send me the contract this week. They called me, it’s agreed, I just have to sign.

Tatame: What’s the expectations to be back?
Thales Leites: It’s all I want, get a fight and don’t stand still for so long. I’ll do two fights, one now ant the other on March. That’s all I needed. I’ll fight on Canada and there are a lot of people from UFC that will fight there, as Jason MacDonald, Marvin Eastman and Dean Lister, so it’s great. That’s the focus, keep winning. I’ll be different, I realized that I have to be more aggressive, if I have to fight standing up, it will be like this, and if it’s on the ground, let’s go to the ground.

Tatame: Do you want to win this two fights to be back to UFC?
Thales Leites: I just wanna focus on the event, on the fight. Of course that every fighter’s focus is UFC, I’ve been there and I know how good it is. If I have an opportunity to be back, I will, but I’m working for this event now and I just want to think about it. The contract is of exclusivity on North America, so I can fight on Japan or Brazil, wherever the opportunity comes. I’ll do two fights in four months, I’m happy. Of course I was upset with what happened when I was out of UFC. One day I’m fighting for the belt, okay, it wasn’t the most exciting fight, and then they put me on the undercard, everything happens and they take me off the event. I know it’s business, the guys are working to be where they are today.

Read the entire interview as Leites gives his opinion on the Andreson Silva vs. Vitor Belfort bout by visiting Tatame.com.

With his recent release by the UFC, Brazilian middleweight Thales Leites (14-3) is looking to bounce back from his back-to-back losses by getting back into the ring as quickly as possible. Leites has agreed to sign with the Maximum Fighting Championship organization in Edmonton, Canada and is looking to face his first opponent on Dec. 4. [...]

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