The show opens with Team Serra savoring Matt Arroyo’s victory over Dorian Price. Arroyo admits that a huge weight’s been lifted off his shoulders.

The focus again returns to Matt Serra’s friend Joey Scarola. After losing the season’s first fight, Joey has been on the fence above leaving the show, and he again tells Serra he wants to leave. For the time being, Serra talks him out of it.

Then, just five minutes into the episode, we’re back at the gym for fight announcements: Hughes announces that Billy Miles (2-1) will face Team Serra’s John Kolosci (8-4). Serra and John are actually thrilled with the decision.

John then demonstrates a true man love for Serra and says how appreciative he is to be training with a world champ — something that would never happen with his boring desk job. It’s hard not to like this guy.

Soon after the announcement, Billy starts to get homesick, and after assistant coach Mark Fiore provides a pep talk, the team returns to the gym for a powwow with coach Hughes. The former champ tells his fighters that his career is about over — saying he has “two or three” fights left in his career — and that he took the easy road when it came to training for his last couple fights. He encourages the guys to work their hardest so they don’t have those types of regrets later in life.

Back at the house, UFC 72 is ready to take place, and with Dana White out of town, he allows everyone to watch the fight on TV. Joey ducks out of the party, though, and when Serra comes to find him, he again says he wants to go home. Serra thinks he’s talked his buddy out of it, though, and leaves the house.

However, Joey kicks the pity party into high gear, and when he and his housemates turn to a downpour of booze, the destruction begins. Usually, it takes nearly a full season for the guys to destroy the house, but this season, they needed just three episodes.

The next day, Joey shows up at the gym and say he’s out. Serra tells him that if he leaves, he won’t have his job back at Serra Jiu-Jitsu when he returns. Assistant coach Pete Sell tries to talk sense into him as well, but it does no good. Joey’s back at the house packing when Dana arrives, and despite the UFC’s head honcho trying to talk the fighter out of the mistake of his life, Joey leaves anyway.

With him gone, the focus then turns to the upcoming fight. Both fighters make weight, thought it was a close call for Billy.