Picking up where we left off last week with an update on Randy Couture’s situation with the UFC, Punch Drunk Gamer is delivering part two of a three part segment with a look at the life and career of Randy Couture.

This week’s edition features talk about the Xtreme Couture gyms – which are located in Las Vegas, Nevada, Vancouver, Washington, Wellington, Florida, and Lombard, Illinois. He discusses expansion, with plans to go international in Toronto, Canada, as well as where the idea for the training centers originally came from.

Following Couture’s win over Tim Sylvia at UFC 68 there has also been a surge in sales of Xtreme Couture clothing and gear.

Below is what Randy had to say about his brand. Stay tuned to next week’s MMA Access for the third and final installment of the epic Couture story, as well as a final transcript of the entire interview available exclusively at PunchDrunkGamer.

PDG: I wanted to ask you about the Xtreme Couture brand; going back to when it all started what kind of goals did you have for Xtreme Couture and what were some of the things that you wanted to do? Randy: Well Xtreme Couture is a few different things now – it’s a clothing line and gyms, so I’m not sure what you’re asking about?

PDG: Everything. Since the start of the brand itself everything has snowballed. Randy: It has. Well, first and foremost I wanted to create a training center. I moved to Vegas to get close to my girlfriend at the time, who is now my wife, Kim, and training here in this environment there were a lot of great fighters but no solid training centers that have everything you need – [Mark] Laimon’s school is great, but it’s pretty much just a Brazilian jiu-jitsu school, the Xyience training center at the time was very small and we could steal some mat time there in between the kids’ classes if we were lucky. We also got to use The Ultimate Fighter gym when there was no show being filmed – which it’s an awesome training center with everything you need – a full-sized cage, mats, a weight area and treadmills; so kind of being involved in the first season of The Ultimate Fighter I was really impressed with the set-up and though how cool it would be to have your own training center with all that stuff in place.

And obviously I’ve been one of the founding members of Team Quest – I started Team Quest up in Oregon. Team Quest turned out to be a pretty nice gym, but it certainly didn’t start out that way. It started out a little [place] in the back of a car lot with one wrestling mat [laughs]. We slowly kind of built it into what it is today where you’re no longer embarrassed to have the public in there, or people in there filming. It’s respectable and clean, but it still doesn’t have a full ring or cage and a full set of fitness equipment that you need to train and get ready for fights. You still need to go to 24 Hour Fitness or somewhere to do that other stuff.