Arroyo: Yeah, I did. Well, it was the first job out of college. I was looking for jobs -- I went on like 10 different interviews, and I always wanted to learn. I knew you have to learn how to sell if you’re going to open your own business some day, and I was sure that was what I wanted to do. I didn’t know what, but I didn’t want to work for someone my whole life. So my grandfather and my uncle were saying you have to learn how to sell. So I was like, all right, what is the hardest thing you can sell?

MMAFightLine.com: Insurance.

Arroyo: Something you are never going to really truly benefit from while you are living. If I can get someone to buy that, then I must be a salesman. I did that for a year, and after 6 months they named me manager, and I had a team of like 10 different people and they were all like twice my age. It was really weird, and we did really well, but my head was not really there, and after a year of it I think I had learned how to sell. The only thing that was on my mind was training. Towards the end of that year, I had my first professional fight, and I won. I beat the guy in 56 seconds and I just got the bug, and that’s all I could think about. I was at work, but I wasn’t at work. My mind was just somewhere else, and I just couldn’t do it anymore. I was getting inefficient. I wasn’t going out and doing the things I was supposed to be doing to be successful at work. So I was like look, I can’t do this anymore. I’m not giving you guys 100%, so I had to quit and do this full time and just shortly after that, Allen Berube, got on TUF. Berube is saying: “Look, I met a bunch of people -- I can introduce you to the right people -- we can get you on.” So I was like all right, let me get a few more fights. So, I got 2 more fights.

MMAFightLine.com: The tryouts were in Miami, right?

Arroyo: Allen’s were in Miami, the ones I had to go to were in Vegas.

MMAFightLine.com: Vegas really, so you had to go out there?

Arroyo: Yes, so we flew out there. The auditions were pretty funny.

MMAFightLine.com: I’m sure you are getting sick of TUF questions, but I’ve got to ask. During your down time in the house, what did you do? It seemed like a lot of people were getting on each other’s nerves.

Arroyo: Yeah, I tried to stay out of the drama. You saw some of that towards the end and a little bit in the beginning. I tried to stay away from all that. If I ever saw it going on, I would just go to my room. I don’t want to be associated with any of it. Our team had practice from 10:00–2:00. So we were up at 10:00 a.m. I’m sorry; we had practice from 10:00–12:00. So we were up around 9:30 a.m. We had to eat and get on to the bus by 10:00 or 9:30 or whatever, and we would get there, so that was 2 hours of the day. Then we would come back and eat. We had to go back to training 2 hours at night. So that was every day -- 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours at night. So in between that, man, you just eat, you relax in your room (there’s no TV). What did I do? I swam -- they had a big pool with a floatie -- I was just trying to get a tan and just relax.