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Michael Bisping vs. Thales Leites Headlines UFC Fight Night 72
A key middleweight bout will headline July’s UFC Fight Night event in Scotland, as UFC officials recently announced that Michael Bisping and Thales Leites will square off in the evening’s main event slot. Michael Bisping (26-7 MMA) was last seen in action at April’s UFC 186 event, where he earned a unanimous decision victory over […]
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UFC Releases Francis Carmont
Former top 10 UFC middleweight Francis Carmont has announced that he has been cut from the UFC after losing to Thales Leites. Carmont made the announcement to his fans via Facebook: Post by Francis Carmont. By Evan Stoumbelis
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Thales Leites Calls Out Michael Bisping, Wants Fight In Brazil Or England
Everyone wants a piece of Michael Bisping lately, after defeating Cung Le at UFC Macau earlier this month, Luke Rockhold put forth a strong campaign as to why he and Bisping should fight. Now Thales Leites is getting in on the fun. Leites spoke with MMAFighting: “Bisping is a tough fighter, does great fights. He […]
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UFC Tulsa Post-Fight Bonuses: Dos Anjos Pockets $50k
Last night during the UFC Fight Night Tulsa post fight press conference, UFC President Dana White disclosed who the winners were for the performance bonus’ for the night. They are as follows: Performance Of The Night $50k – Rafael Dos Anjos for his KO win over Benson Henderson. Performance Of The Night $50k – Jordan […]
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“UFN 49” Bonus Report: Dos Anjos, Saunders, Leites and Mein Take Home Extra $50K
Performance of the Night: Jordan Mein Jordan Mein wanted to make a name for himself as a co main-eventer and he did just that tonight in his bout against Mike Kyle. It was a left hook that sent UFC veteran Mike Kyle crashing to the canvas and everybody knew it was all over at that […]
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Maia vs. Pyle, Leites vs. Carmont Added To FN 49
UFC Fight Night 49 takes place August 23rd from Tulsa Oklahoma, and the card picked up two fights today. Demian Maia vs. Mike Pyle and Thales Leites vs. Francis Carmont have been added two the card. Demian Maia is coming off a win over Alexander Yakovlev back in May which snapped his two fight losing […]
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Thales Leites replaces Rafael Natal, meets Ed Herman at UFC 167
Ed Herman did not have to wait long to learn the name of his new UFC 167 opponent, as the promotion recently announced that former title challenger Thales Leites would be replacing Rafael Natal against “Short Fuse.” Natal was promoted from his schedueld UFC 167 bout, to the headliner of “UFC Fight For The Troops 3” […]
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Thales Leites returns to face Tom Watson at UFC 163
Former middleweight title challenger, Thales Leites (20-4 MMA, 5-3 UFC), is once again a UFC fighter. Leites is set to make his octagon return this August at UFC 163 in Brazil against British standout Tom Watson (16-5 MMA, 1-1 UFC). Leites’ was released by the UFC following a UFC 101 split decision loss to Alessio […]
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Leites: Silva didn't not finish me on purpose
By Evan Stoumbelis Former UFC Middleweight Thales Leites responded to Anderson Silva‘s comments today that the Middleweight Champ took it easy on Leites in their title fight because of their friendship. “First, I want to say that Anderson never attended the New Union, never seen him there, we were never friends or acquaintances besides our […]