Thales more aggressive against Dean Lister

By Guilherme Cruz

Photo Josh Hedges

Eight months after fighting for the UFC title against Anderson Silva in Canada, Thales Leites will be back to Canadian stages, now for MFC. Renew after being but from the event, the Nova União athlete guarantees an aggressive style on the event, that takes place on December 4, in Edmonton.

“I’ll be more aggressive in all situations, but now I won’t talk, I’ll just do it. We always expect for the best, even more coming from two losses. I wanna o be more aggressive from now on“, Thales said. “I want to erase that image I left in my fight with Anderson in Canada, but, besides that, people from Canada are great with me. I have a lot o fans there and I’m starting again“.

Against Dean Lister, a former UFC fighter, where he won four out of six fights, Thales expects a tough fight. “For the first time in my career I’ll face a guy who isn’t a striker... Actually, the only ’non-striker’ that I ever faced was Lúcio Linhares. Now I’ll fight Dean Lister, a Jiu-Jitsu guy... If the fight goes to the ground great, if it’s standing, great too. I’m always training as it was the most important fight of my life“.

Asked about the controversial decision between Lyoto Machida and Maurício Shogun, that happened on UFC 104, Thales gives his thoughts: “it’s hard to say, because I just saw this fight once, live. I haven’t analyzed the score yet, but it was an equilibrated fight, where Lyoto won some rounds and Shogun others. They said that Shogun won, but I thought, watching it live, that the decision was right. I have to see the score, anyone of them could win it“, finished.