The first bit of drama develops almost immediately upon the conclusion of the teams being picked when Rampage and a few other fighters notice a blotchy red patch on wrestling standout Paul Bradley's neck. Some of the fighters toss around some easy-made "love-bite" jokes, and what seems like fun and games turns quickly to fear of contagion when Bradley let's them all know that the patch on his neck is a herpes outbreak.

Some of the other guys on Rampage's team show little sensitivity with their reactions---"cooties" and "I ain't rolling around with that" join a building chorus of chatter that Bradley should be quarantined until his outbreak goes away.

A skin doctor is called in and tells Dana, Bradley and the coaches that it could be contagious and that stress causes these kinds of outbreaks. The doctor prescribes some pills for Paul and we cut to the first workouts by the teams.

While Bradley is relegated to a treadmill, we get to watch Rampage and his lead assistant Juanito Ibarra train TEAM RAMPAGE. Rampage doles out his wisdom with his humorous street-wise aphorisms. In what will surely join his growing list of classics, Rampage tells a fighter, while trying to show him how to push an opponent away when in guard position, "When you push a guy off, pretend like you're in prison and he's trying to get your booty!".

Juanito has some good motivational one-liners too. While trying to hammer home the importance of eating right he snorts, "I can tell by your spit what you're eating".

Forrest's two main assistants are a Jiu-Kitsu teacher named Clayman, who Forrest claims has no last name, and TUF 5 wrestling standout Gray Maynard.

Unlike Rampage who wants to be a coach one day, Forrest has no such aspirations, "I'll never be a coach, but I know how to run a training camp". His best line of the night comes while he's extolling the virtues of hard work,"Fellas, the juice is worth the squeeze!"

When the next day of training begins, the Bradley situation finally gets resolved. Dana calls a meeting with the nervous fighter and Rampage. Dana tries to soften the coming blow by telling Bradley that this is the hardest cut he has ever had to make since the show's inception.

In tears, Bradley tries to convince Dana to let the pills the doctor gave him have a chance to work. Dana can't take the chance of the herpes spreading to the other fighters. Bradley pleads. "I left my other job as a wrestling coach for this. Now I got nothing". Dana sympathetically tells him even if he wanted to he couldn't cause it's a legal issue.