MMAFightLine.com: Was there anybody in the house that just really got on your nerves?

Arroyo: No, not really. We never saw the other team, because while we were at practice, they were at home. When we were at home, they were at practice, and they had to go to bed really early because they had the early practice from 8:00 to 10:00. We had 10 – 12 so that was cool that we never saw them. None of them really got on my nerves, because they never really had a chance to get on my nerves. Guys on my team, I liked them all. You get camaraderie because you can’t talk to your family and you can’t talk to your friends, so these guys are the only people you have and you try to just treat them good.

MMAFightLine.com: Do you stay in touch with any of those guys?

Arroyo: Yeah, actually, most of them. I talk to Ben all the time. He actually comes to Tampa and we hang out. Rude Boy, I talk to a lot. When I go to Vegas we are always hanging out.

MMAFightLine.com: Yes, he was just over with Kendall Grove in Amsterdam.

Arroyo: Yes, he and Kendall are good friends. I don’t talk to War Machine that much. I don’t talk to Kolosci that much anymore. Ritchie, I never really got close with him because I had a room with 5 guys in it. It was me, Ben, Kolosci, Rude Boy and George. So, you know, Joe left so I didn’t really get too close with him. Ritchie was the only one that wasn’t in our room so I didn’t really get to close with him. And George, I talk to him all the time. When I go to train with Matt Serra, he is there now, so he is a very good training partner. But yes, I just tried to stay out of trouble. I had a journal that I kept -- everybody had their own journal, that was our sanity, that was writing down everything that happened, and how you were feeling. It was like therapy really.

MMAFightLine.com: What’s their justification for keeping you in the house? Why don’t they do it more like Real World-style where they follow you through Vegas?

Arroyo: Then we’d be too happy and there wouldn’t be enough drama. Everybody is going to break at some point. Some people break and go home. Some people just break and blow up on someone, but everybody breaks sometime within those 40 days because it is just like jail, and that makes for great TV. If we had the phones, the internet and we could do whatever we want it would be a real boring show.