Fightline.com: What have you improved most since coming over to MMA? How is your overall game evolving?

Velasquez: I think I'm good on the ground and on my feet. I haven't shown too much jui-jitsu because that's not how I want to end fights right now. I want to end fights with my ground-and-pound right now. I could end them with submissions, but that's not how I want to finish. I want to chose how I want to end the fights. And on my feet, I think I've come a long way since when I started. I feel like every month I add something, a new tool; with the head movement, moving in and out, getting more power and technique. So, I don't think I'm lacking in any one area.

Fightline.com: How's the submission defense?

Velasquez: I think it's good. I've rolled with world class jui-jitsu guys and I won the no-gi blue belt world championships last year so I think it's there, but anyone can get caught so we work it everyday.

Fightline.com: How would you attack a guy like Brock Lesnar?

Velasquez: I would say I would approach it like how Couture did. He did a lot of head movement and try to get his shots off of that. I think I'd try to fight him the same way. Couture had a good game plan. I think that's the way to beat him.

Fightline.com: What about Shane Carwin?

Velasquez: I think I would do the same thing with Shane Carwin. There both good wrestlers so I think I'd try to fight him the same way.

Fightline.com: What fighters do you like to watch? Who's the best in your opinion?

Velasquez: I think Fedor [Emelianenko] is the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world. As far as him being a heavyweight I watch all of his fights and he doesn't have any weak spots at all. Just his quickness, his punches are a little loopy but they're effective. I watch his fights and I watch his training video's just trying to get little pointers from him.

Fightline.com: Who would you like face next?

Velasquez: Pretty much whoever the UFC gives me we'll say yes to. But, I think the UFC wants to build me so every fight's going to get harder and harder.

Fightline.com: You have a very tight knit family. Where did you grow up and what was your family life like?

Velasquez: I grew up in Yuma, Arizona. Which is seven miles from the border. We had a lot of trips over to Mexico and my parents always wanted to keep us close to our roots so we'd always take trips over there. We're really family orientated, blue-collar, hard working people so I really get that from my family. My Dad starting out working in the lettuce fields and he kinda just worked his way up and became a truck driver. He's actually an immigrant from Mexico. He grew up really poor so he's done really well for himself considering where he's come from. I don't really show it but I do really appreciate it a lot, what he's done, and I do tell him that I got my work ethic just from watching him.

Fightline.com: We've heard that you used to work night club security after your wrestling days. What was that like? I can't imagine anyone trying to pick a fight with a guy your size. Especially with the cauliflower ears.

Velasquez: You'd be surprised. It happened a few times. But I was always cool with people. If they swung on me first then I would do something, but usually I was always cool with people. I wasn't trying to show anyone that I was a tough guy, you know, that's not my style. We had a couple of fights in the club, but I would usually just take guys down and hold them down and look up and watch my back. You just never know who somebody is and what they'll try to come back with so I just try to stay cool with everybody.