MMAFightline: What are your thoughts on the Couture/Dana situation and what was your initial reaction when you learned of Couture's resignation?

Brad: I was pretty shocked because Randy's been the poster child for the UFC for a long time now and kind of held up as an icon. I think it hurts the UFC that he resigned the way he did, not having a whole lot of good things to say about Dana and the UFC. Which is Unfortunate, I don't know the whole situation, but I hope Randy is successful. Everybody likes Randy, he's good for the sport.

MMAFightline: There has been much made of the UFC's payscale situation. How have your experiences been with the UFC?

Brad: I have no complaints about how the UFC treated me. [UFC President] Dana [White] was always very good to me, and right now I'm making more money, but they put you on a reality show and you sign a contract before the show even starts. And there developing a personality for the show and then they cash out when you get off, and they don't pay you a great deal of money but it's their marketing machine that gets you where you are so. I'm not gonna ever say someone gets paid more than there worth. You know people say "I can't believe this guys making so much money. He's over paid." No he's not, you market yourself to the point where you get paid. If Brock Lesnar get paid a million dollars because he's in the WWE, God bless him. I hope that everybody can do that. I just hope that the salaries keep going up. It's a sport that is really popular right now and there's a lot of money to be had and I'm sure that there's enough to go around.

MMAFightline: Your training partner and good buddy Tim Sylvia just beat Vera. Any ideas about what's next for Tim?

Brad: I don't know anything about what coming up for Tim, but I would say that if there's gonna be a heavyweight title fight than Tim definitely deserves to be a part of it. You know he had it before Randy and him being the UFC's most dominant heavyweight in recent memory I think that he certainly deserves a shot. A lot of people are talking about Nogueira...I think that Nogueira should probably have to fight somebody for the right to fight Tim, but I can't see the UFC having a fight [for the vacant heavyweight title without Tim being involved in it