The following is part two of a very entertaining two part interview with Brandon "The Truth" Vera, top contender in the UFC heavyweight division - who fights former champion Frank Mir at UFC 65 "Bad Intentions" on November 18th. To check out part one of the interview, http://www.mmanews.com/ufc/Awesome-Pre-UFC-65-Brandon-Vera-Interview-[Part-1].html

Luis Cruz for MMANews.com: What do you think about Mirko?

Brandon Vera: Mirko kicks that ass. The K-1 kickboxing world came over to MMA. Not the other way around.

Luis Cruz: That's right, he came from K-1 to MMA.

Brandon Vera: K-1 yeah, I mean f*** he's a bad ass. His only weakness is the ground, because no matter how hard he trains on the ground right now he's still going to be a little bit behind everyone else who's already been training the ground from a long time ago.

Luis Cruz: He's actually picked it up quite a bit, he pretty much nulled Fedor's ground and pound when they fought. He did pretty well, he just kind of gassed.

Brandon Vera: Yeah, think about it though if he went in and fought on the ground with Nogueira again I would put my money on a sure bet that Nogueira makes him tap out again.

Luis Cruz: I agree.

Brandon Vera: Oh yeah.

Luis Cruz: Have you seen his [CroCop's] knockout of Vanderlei Silva?

Brandon Vera: Holy shit, did I. Yeah. I want to knock somebody out like that. I want to kick someone's head off and split it all open and make 'em slump back. Jesus christ. Man that shot itself should be worth a million bucks.

Luis Cruz: [laughing] Yeah, that was certainly a dominating performance [laughing]

Brandon Vera: Yeah, that was f***ed it up [laughs]. Man that was crazy. I did not see the fight going like that, I thought it was gonna be a lot closer than that [laughing].

Luis Cruz: Yeah, everybody did.

Brandon Vera: Holy shit [still laughing].

Luis Cruz: What about their [PRIDE] light heavyweight division as compared to UFC's with Silva, Shogun, Arona, the other Nogueira, etc?

Brandon Vera: They have well rounded fighters too, I think that division is even. It's even stevens I think, I mean Arona has been over, Silva's been beat by Tito granted that was younger in his game but Tito's gotten better as well. I think it's even, straight up. I think it'd be a good show to put on light heavyweight's versus light heavyweight's, PRIDE versus UFC. It'd be such an awesome show.