Dan “The Mouth” Lovranski: Right now, we want to welcome our second guest of the evening. He’s fighting Jake Shields, as you heard in the ad there on the break, this coming Saturday on the EliteXC show Renegade. It’s in Corpus Christie, Texas and in the U.S. it will be on Showtime and here in Canada it will air live on The Fight Network. It’s a pleasure to welcome, for the first time, Mike “Quicksand” Pyle. Mike, how are ya?

Mike Pyle: Good guys, how are you doing?

Mouth: We are very, very good. Now, I got to start off with this little bit of…It seems a little bit of controversy, going into this fight. As it was originally designed to create a new welterweight champion, but you told EliteXC that you’re not happy with them? So you’re not staying with the company? So, you don’t care about the title? Is that correct, basically?

Pyle: Well basically, what’s going on brother is I wanted a little more exposure on their main card, let the public know who Mike Pyle is and then let’s have a title shot. Fair is fair, help me in my career, help promote me a little bit and help build this title thing up. Once they gave me the title shot, they gave me five weeks. They’re just like, “Hey, title shot—five weeks.”

Mouth: Right.

Pyle: I’m like, “No”. Title fights are five rounds, I got to train for a five round fight and most of all, I’m fighting Jake shields. Jake Shields is good. He is known for his cardio and his relentless attack, so I have to be more ready than five weeks. I won’t even take a three round fight in five weeks much less a championship fight. You know I was unhappy with the way they promoted me, so that’s—I don’t have time to not be promoted somewhere, so I want to go somewhere where I’m going to be promoted and that’s that.

Mouth: Right, so after this fight this weekend is that it for you and EliteXC?

Pyle: I don’t want to say I’ll never fight for EliteXC again. EliteXC has treated me well. My only problem with them is their lack of promotion of me, sticking me on undercards and things like that. I feel I am more worthy than that and if they’re not going to give that to me I have to move on. But yes, I do know they’re putting me on the card now.

Mouth: But don’t you think if they put you in a title fight situation that would bring about more promotion, though?