Heath Herring was one of the best heavyweight fighters in the world for a long time, but has fallen off the MMA map since a 2008 loss to Brock Lesnar. He has dabbled in acting, poker, and even promoting his own series of MMA shows in South America since then, but fans would still like to see him compete once again.

Last night on PokerNews, Heath and his wife Sarah did a Q&A where he answered some questions about whether he might fight in the future, and gave his thoughts on performance enhancing drugs in MMA, past and present. Some of his answers were definitely interesting. Here's a partial transcript of the video.

On his nickname, 'The Texas Crazy Horse' - "I got my nickname in Japan. The Japanese fans have always kind of thought that nicknames are supposed to be given, you don't really make you own name up. Because I was known for kicking people and getting up from guys that were always on top of me, they called me the Crazy Horse. But the Japanese translation was 'the horse with no rider', or 'the guy that can't be ridden'."

He then tells the story of the aftermath of his infamous pre-fight KO of Yoshihiro Nakao in K-1 Hero's after Nakao kissed him. Basically Nakao's cornerman jumped him in the back and got the crap beat out of him by Herring's entourage. And that he had to sign a bunch of stuff that ensured he wouldn't talk about the incident.

On a comeback at 37: - "I don't know. Maybe, we'll see. I'm getting old."

He did state that he thought he was going to return last year, and was getting ready for it, but some other opportunities arose and he got married. He doesn't watch the sport a lot, but keeps up with it and follows when buddies are fighting, and mentions the Chris Weidman vs. Vitor Belfort title fight from UFC 187.

Then talk turned to PEDs, and he was frank about the usage in Pride:

"There was tons of it in Japan. It was kind of encouraged. It wasn't looked down upon, so it was totally cool, okay."

On the state of PEDs today:

"It's like regulation, it's like everything else. Obviously you're putting a monetary value on athleticism, so I find it to be a little bit hypocritical if people are doing everything in their power to become better at something. It's a little bit strange. You're paying people for winning, and they're doing everything they can to win.

Is performance enhancing eating a good diet, and training, those are all performance enhancing, right? If people have more money, they can eat a better diet and have better equipment and better trainers and better access to things, that's helping them. I don't know, I find it a little bit hypocritical sometimes. And it's also up to the athlete I think too. If you want to put something in your body...I don't know, I'm such a Libertarian though. I'm like, whatever you want to do to yourself."

"I don't really see it as cheating I guess."

The video above doesn't show the whole Q&A, as they had issues starting it up and they continued to talk after the stream ended. Jeremy Botter of Bleacher Report was watching and tweeted this in regards to a part not caught in the video:

Herring says he was scheduled to fight Cain in Germany but was going to get a 40% entertainer tax. UFC contract was bad, so he walked away. — Jeremy Botter (@jeremybotter) June 2, 2015

That would be a reference to UFC 99, where Velasquez ended up fighting and beating Cheick Kongo in June 2009. Herring's involvement in the fight had been rumored, but I believe the explanation for him not taking the bout is new.

Herring (28-14, 1 NC, 2-3 UFC) has been quite vocal in the past about his issues with UFC president Dana White and promoters in general, so my guess is that a return would be unlikely, but you never know.