After surgeries and life-threatening infection, Thales Leites returns tonight at AFC 2

Since his promotional release in 2009, former UFC middleweight title challenger Thales Leites has won all but one of his six fights.

Tonight, Leites gets the opportunity to avenge the lone defeat when he rematches fellow UFC vet Matt Horwich in the co…

Since his promotional release in 2009, former UFC middleweight title challenger Thales Leites has won all but one of his six fights.

Tonight, Leites gets the opportunity to avenge the lone defeat when he rematches fellow UFC vet Matt Horwich in the co-headliner of Amazon Forest Combat 2.

Following knee surgery (actually, four surgeries in all) and a nasty battle with a staphylococcus (“staph”) infection, Leites’ confidence now is unflinching.