Brandon Vera recently spoke to UFC.com and had a few things of interest to say.

On his previous outlook on fighting:

“I’ve never told anybody this, but, I’d been treating this whole thing as kind of a hobby,” says Vera from his training camp in Camp Springs, Maryland. “The best quote I heard was, ‘If you treat business as a hobby, it’s going to pay you like a hobby—but if you treat your business as a business, it’s going to pay you like a business.’ I’d been treating it as a hobby. I wasn’t treating myself as a professional fighter.’”

He also had this to say about his current weight situation:

“Yeah, I am at 202 right now,” he says. “My whole outlook on everything has changed. I am serious about this stuff now. It’s my diet, and my strength and conditioning coach, the 2004 Judo Olympian Rhadi Ferguson, it’s everything. It’s going to be bad for the 205ers, man. Bad. News.”

Since Vera is going to have to go up to 205, could you imagine if he went down to 185? With his size, you would have to think that he would automatically be placed in the chase to fight Anderson Silva. I wouldn't have thought that was feasible six months ago, but that could be an amazing matchup if Vera ever decided to cut down further.

Vera has proven in the past that he can be a force in the UFC and it will be interesting to see what the future holds for "The Truth" now that he's got weight-cutting down to a science.