Thales Leites contests defeat for Sakara

By Erik Engelhart

Photo by Josh Hedges

Although the easy victory of Anderson Silva against Forrest Griffin and Ricardo “Big Dog” over Kendall Grove, the UFC 101 was not perfect for Brazil, because the defeats of Danilo Villefort and Thales Leites. Thales, that defeated to Anderson Silva in the dispute of middleweight belt, fight to resume the path of victories, but eventually defeated again, this time for Italian Alessio Sakara.

"I would like to see the video of the fight to talk straight, because when you're fighting does not have the same vision. On to victory, that I have not the slightest doubt. In the first round, I joined him in the leg once, there was in clinche, and then I went down it, but then he got up, I did not remember very well. In the second round, I dominate, put him down some two or three times, got the back, mount, passed the guard, I mounted beating... In the third round, I was always looking to fight, he was walking backwards, turning from side to side, I tried to corral him on the cage, but he came out, I do not know what criterion they used, I think I won, like many who came to talk", said the black-belt of the New Union in an interview that you can give at the end of this week here on the TATAME’s