Len Bentley walks out of Brock Lesnar’s firm but relaxed tirade. He’s coaxed back in. Brock continues to chew out his team with the same tone and body language of someone discussing interior design, sitting back in a comfortable chair and speaking in monotone.

Brock wants someone to “wow” him. Chris did that. Charlie Rader, whose loss has prompted this lecture, apparently did not. Neither did Nordin Asrih, who left such a slight impression in his Episode 1 fight that it’s easy to forget he’s on the show.

Back in the house — Len says he’s not going to stay in the room and let someone he doesn’t care about go name-calling. He hates negative energy.

The fight announcement comes early. Junior dos Santos points out in confessional that his team has already beaten Brock’s top two picks, Len and Charlie. Junior sends Mick Bowman to face Clay Harvison. Chuck O’Neil calls Clay a tough bastard. Len thinks it could be another highlight fight.

On Team Dos Santos, assistant Lew Polley is causing trouble again. Junior says he was brought in to teach wrestling but is trying to teach jiu-jitsu and boxing as well. Polley is seen demonstrating boxing moves while Junior makes a face like a surprised Benny Hill.

We meet Mick briefly. Being English, he gets subtitles, even though he’s easier to understand than roughly half the TUF cast members over the years.

Clay is working on a 1-2 combo called the “launching pad,” firing the right hand before the left is retracted. Then we revisit the “Chris Cope = Team Traitor?” storyline, with Clay pointing out that Chris is staring at him in training. Back in the house, Clay issues vague threats about what he might do to Chris if anything is ever proven true.

Back from the ad break, we find someone has written “CHRIS COPE DOUBLE AGENT” in the sand pit in the house. Over s’mores in the backyard, Chris confronts his team to ask if anyone has any concerns. He pledges that he wants to be a good teammate. Everyone seems content. But no, the rest of the team comes up with conspiracy theories in the giant communal bedroom, and when Chris comes in, he gets a good view of Chuck’s ass. Chris laughs and promptly accuses Tony Ferguson of writing the offending comment in the sand, saying it matches his hand, er, sandwriting. Tony doesn’t deny it but says Chris is calling him a liar. After the requisite posturing, Tony does indeed deny it.

Brief insight into Clay while he’s at the hot tub with Chuck and Chris: He has his brother’s ashes tattooed on him. They were apparently mixed with the ink.

But we’re immediately back to Chris, and it turns out Mick wrote “DOUBLE AGENT” as a bit of fun because Chris is often hanging around while Team Dos Santos is in the kitchen.

Warmups for the fight are more interesting than usual, mostly because Brock dons a thick vest and urges Clay to go ahead and get the first minute of the fight out of the way. Clay lashes vicious jabs and hooks into Brock’s midsection.

Mick, meanwhile, joins a long line of “I have a little girl at home, so there’s no way I’m going to lose” fighters. Someone should do a stats breakdown to see how many people say that and win.

Round 1: Steve Mazzagatti is our ref. Clay starts quickly with a hard right to the tornado warning that’s scrolling across Mick’s face. (Sorry — rough weather night in Virginia.) After 45 seconds, Mick is clearly getting outclassed on his feet, so he shoots for a takedown. He ends up on his back while Clay tries to wind up and land a big shot. He can’t quite do it, and Clay ends up in Mick’s guard facing a triangle/armbar combo. He slips out, stands and backs away to make Mick get back to his feet.

Clay once again presses the action. Mick shoots again, but Clay sprawls and lands a knee. Clay works Mick over to the cage and lands a few more good shots. Junior and the coaches yell for Mick to move his head, which he finally does. Against the cage again, and this time, Mick gets an underhook and reverses. But he gives up that position when he goes for the takedown. Clay holds him against the cage for a bit, then backs away.

In the center of the cage, Clay has Mick flinching with every flick of his wrist. He takes advantage neatly at one point by throwing a right and then delivering a backhand as Mick backs away.

Clear 10-9 for Clay. Mick’s corner tells him he can’t keep going backward. In Clay’s corner, Brock is effusive. (But did he “wow” Brock?)

Round 2: Mick gets fancy with a spinning strike. Clay just hits him. Clay clinches against the cage, though that hasn’t been effective for him, and Mick reverses. Mick lands his best punch of the fight as they break. Emboldened, Mick lands three straight jabs up the middle. Now Mick is pressing forward. Clay stumbles, intention unknown. Mick lands a decent head kick and more jabs, but he’s still retreating every time Clay throws. It’s a competitive fight, at least, and not a bad one. Clay is winded, gasping for air.

Mick seems like he would have the advantage in a third round, but we won’t have time for that in this broadcast. Are we getting a knockout? Or a controversial decision?

They clinch and dance against the cage again. The 10-second warning sounds. Then it’s over, and this simply has to go to a third round. Right?

Nope. It’s over. No matter which way the judges went, that’s a crock. It’s a clear 10-9 each way.

All three judges gave it to Clay, apparently oblivious to the jabs and leg kicks Mick landed in the second.

Clay sincerely congratulates Mick. Brock says Clay did indeed wow him.

Mick is disconsolate. He just hopes for another chance.

Clay thinks he broke his pinkie when he tried to block a kick. Off come the gloves and … yes. The bone was sticking out of his skin. Clay’s surely out of the competition. We already have two wild cards in this format, so now we’ll likely have three open spots. We’ll find out next week, when we have the other two preliminary fights.