Former UFC middleweight Thales Leites (14-3) is scheduled to face Dean Lister (11-6) under the Maximum Fighting Championship banner on December 4th in Edmonton.

During an interview with Tatame.com, Leites talked about being more aggressive with his fights in order to erase the image left from his UFC title fight with middleweight champion Anderson Silva.

“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 Lister, Leites expects to face a tough opponent.

“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“.