MMAFightLine.com: You recently had your fight with John Kolosci at the Ultimate Fighter 6 Finale and you defeated him with a beautiful arm bar. Were you surprised that you were able to finish him off that quickly?

Arroyo: No. That is exactly what I predicted before the fight – first round submission, and I trained with him before. We had good sparring matches, and he is really good at ground and pound. Then, he gets half guard on you and he is really good at doing damage, so I knew to never let him get there. I know my guard, and my guard is pretty good, and I knew that is where I would be. I figured he would be a better wrestler than I was, and he got me down which I was expecting and I was working my guard the entire time. It didn’t surprise me that I caught him in first round, and to be honest, while I was in there, I thought: “I still had 30 seconds left, let me try a couple of things,” and in my head I was like it was probably going to go into the second round because I wasn’t getting him in anything. But I got him towards the end.

MMAFightLine.com: The UFC recently cut a lot of the TUF 6 fighters. Were you surprised that they cut so many?

Arroyo: Yeah, 8 of them. No, I wasn’t surprised. If you take any one of those guys and put them against anyone in the UFC right now, I don’t think it would be much of a fight and they know it as well, everyone of those guys, not that they aren’t good fighters, they all have their strengths, but they all have one weakness that would put them out of the loop and they all know that. I have talked to all of them, and they are fine with it. They know what they need to work on to be successful.

MMAFightLine.com: Do you think it is more difficult for fighters on the later seasons of TUF to remain in the UFC as compared to the fighters on lets say Season 1 or Season 2?

Arroyo: Yeah, totally. To tell you the truth, in the past 2 seasons, everybody is tough, but there are less-skilled guys in the last 2 seasons than there have been in the first 3 seasons. In the first 2 seasons, there are tons of guys that are still around, almost all of them. There are maybe 5 or 10 guys that aren’t around from the first 2 seasons. In the last 3 seasons, about half of each is gone. I think in the beginning, they were trying to find the actual toughest dudes around, and towards the middle to now, they are trying to get more theatrics to make the show more interesting, to get the ratings up, because it is all about the ratings. You can’t fake fighting. You can fake personality to get the ratings up, but if you can’t fight in there, you are not going to be in the UFC, and they will weed you out anyway. I think they will be happy if they can get 3 to 5 tough guys off of each season that will compete, so I don’t think they need 16 guys.