In an interview with the Brazilian Tatame site, former UFC middleweight title challenger Thales Leites (15-3) revealed his opponent for this Thursdays Bitetti Combat 6 event as Minnesota Fight Factory’s Rico Washington Sr. (4-4). Leites also stated that his next Maximum Fighting Championship bout would be on May 7th against one of thee possible opponents for the MFC middleweight title.

The Bitetti Combat 6 event will also be available live online from Brazil from bitetticombatppv.com for $12.95 on February 25th.

“They had obtained an adversary for me, I go to face Rich Washington, that faced the Ximú in the last edition of the event. I do not know nothing of it, I go to look for more today in the Internet.”

“I was knowing that my fight in Canada (MFC) goes to be day 7 of May, then is plus a reason to fight here, senão would be six months without fighting. The event goes to be in a bigger enclosure for bullfighting, one card better, then they had decided to move for day 7 of May.”

Leites defeated Dean Lister at MFC 23 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada last December, earning a unanimous decision over “The Boogeyman”.

The full Bitetti Combat 6 event card appears as follows:

- Paulo Filho (Paulão) vs. Yuki Sasaki
- Jeff Monson vs. Glover Teixeira
- Thales Leites vs. Rico Washington
- Fabio Maldonado vs. Guto Inocente
- Cassiano Tytschyo vs. Danilo “Índio” Villefort
- Cristiano Marcello vs. Emiliano “Cobra” Vatti
- Yuri Villeford vs. Júlio Cesar Merenda
- Luiz Firmino “Buscapé” vs. Francisco Drinaldo “Massaranduba”
- Leandro Batata vs. Gustavo Sampaio Labareda
- Luiz Cesar vs. Felipe “Mongo” Arinelli
- Ediene “Índia” Gomes vs. Amanda Nunes