The Huntington Beach Bad Boy Tito Ortiz was interviewed yesterday by Sam Caplan of CBSSportsLine, and as always, the UFC's most controversial fighter created quite a stir with his comments.

Key excerpts from the interview:

CBS SportsLine: Have you signed a contract yet to rematch Rashad Evans?

Ortiz: There's no way for me to sign a contract yet just because I'm not healthy enough. How am I to sign a fight contract when I'm not 100 percent training for it? As soon as I get 100 percent then the contract will be signed ..... The last time I heard from anybody was at the post-fight press conference ..... I have one more fight with the UFC and I've been very happy with them. They've taken care of me and I'm looking forward to finishing the last fight on my contract.

CBS SportsLine:Dana and the UFC went on the offensive after your sparring match against him that never happened. When I spoke to you last, you indicated you were looking out for what was best for business. But with the damage they've tried to do to your reputation, do you feel it might have just been better in the long run to show up and fight?

Ortiz: I wouldn't say better for me. I would say that them hindering my image has really ruined a lot of pay-per-views that could have been bought (for) the last few UFCs. I want to see the numbers and see how good the numbers were, and see how good they were compared to my last fights. It's just one of those things, why would you put that image on a guy who makes you so much money?

It's just one of those tactics on the UFC's side -- or, excuse me, Dana White's side -- of really low-balling me so when contract negotiations come about they can offer me lower money and expect me to take it.

CBS SportsLine: When I last spoke with you, you seemed to favor the idea of re-signing with the UFC. However, a few weeks later ..... your stance had changed ..... What are the chances of Tito Ortiz fighting for a promotion other than the UFC after the last fight on your contract?

Ortiz: ..... It really comes down to the UFC and what they want to give me. How important am I to their company? I've been working the last 10 years on making my name recognized in mixed martial arts as a household name. I think I've been doing a really good job, thanks to the UFC, of course. But I've done so much to get where I am right now and I want to make sure my career takes a step higher instead of taking a step back.

I always want to take a step forward on my career as much as I possibly can. I have another three, maybe four, years of competition left in me. I just want to make sure the UFC takes care of me. If I finish in the UFC, I'll be happy. They have the first right to refusal of any promotion that comes about me.

CBS SportsLine: Do you keep tabs on what the UFC competition is doing?

Ortiz: I haven't really spoken to any other companies, at all. I'm really just worried about getting my contract done with the UFC and possibly re-signing with them. I've been keeping an eye on other companies that have been working hard and doing good and pushing mixed martial arts to the next level. I think I'm the person to help a company to do that. I've been doing it so far with the UFC so it's just one of the things where I've got to make sure I look out for my best interests no matter what.

There's a chance of me possibly doing my own stuff. There's just a lot of things that I want to do as a businessman. I can only be a fighter for so long so I want to make sure I see an avenue of the future for me ..... There's a lot of investors in California. There's a lot of investors I know that could make it happen.

CBS SportsLine: (Your public disagreements) with Dana White (continue) and (now it's) gotten personal ..... However, during a recent interview conducted by Steve Cofield on Sporting News Radio on the morning of UFC 73, Dana may have escalated things a bit. You guys really haven't gotten into insulting family and friends but he started criticizing Jenna .....

(Sporting News Radio audio plays)

Dana White: The guy (Ortiz), I'm telling you, he's not the brightest bulb on the porch. He's a complete moron and what's scarier is that he doesn't think he is. He thinks he's intelligent; he thinks he's smart and articulate. So that's a scary combination.

Steve Cofield: Maybe it goes back to Rashad Evans and our comments about Jenna Jameson? Maybe Jenna is too good to him? Maybe he needs a battle axe ...

White: That's two idiots together. That's even worse, that's double idiot power right there. That's his manager, whom I've had to talk to on the phone several times and I'd rather talk to this table right here then have a conversation with that moron again.

With Dana, if he can't get over on somebody then he automatically becomes their enemy. That's the way Dana has always been. He's a strong-armer; he likes to strong-arm all his fighters. Any fighters you've ever heard of, that's what he does. And all the fighters are afraid to say something about that and that's because their jobs are at stake and I've always been a person to speak my mind ..... I could say a lot of things about him and his family ..... that I've known about, and I'm not going to ..... I'll be a bigger man and I will not do that. Dana is Dana. He's a person that's trying to be a star. He thinks he is a star. He has his own show on The Ultimate Fighter and it's one of those things that's actually (pauses) ... it's just jealousy and I laugh about it and that won't be the person I negotiate my next contract with, that's for sure. I will take a step above and go straight to the Fertittas.

CBS SportsLine: So you won't have any face-to-face dealings with Dana, it will strictly be the Fertittas?

Ortiz: ..... (with Dana), it gets too personal ..... He turns into a complete mobster and tries to strong-arm you and tells you that you're not as good and that everyone is better than you, and that every person is dumb besides himself. And that's fine. I laugh. I laugh my butt off. That's just the way Dana is going to be and that's fine.