Roy Jones Jr. shows up at Rashad’s camp. If I had to guess, I’d have guessed that Roy was Rashad’s favorite fighter. Roy tells Rashad to stay in control. It’s his time. Jones should be on his clock.

Rashad says the relaxing and focusing is just as important as the training.

Jones’ brother Arthur says he’s never seen him more focused on something in his life. Jones’ wife says he told her two weeks out that he was ready and he usually only does it 3-4 days out.

Jones says he’s become a better man simply by preparing for the fight. He’s enjoyed the journey.

Rashad does media with Opie and Anthony and Jones does media with the MLB Network. All the media seems to be taking some steam out of Rashad, while Jones seems to be enjoying it a bit more. But both guys look to be sick of talking about their beef.

Evans says that he knows he’s going to make Jones quit. It’s just a matter of when. Jones thinks Rashad is living miserably. He says that when he wins, he’s going to be concerned about Rashad because what else will he have to fight for? Jones tells him to bring it, but he didn’t say if he was on Team Bring It or not.

The Verdict: Jones looks ready and Evans looks a bit bothered. But that probably relates to their personalities. Both look ready. It was a good final episode and Jones said the right things at the end.

The first episode was excellent. Let’s hope they keep it going.

Rashad’s coach, Mike Vanarsdale tears his bicep at the elbow while training. Rashad visits him at the emergency room and says winning the title will be huge for the team.

After a swimming workout, Jones dips in an ice bath and tells Rashad in his best Janet Jackson voice that’s doing it for Rashad. “All for you, Rashad.”

While training in Puerto Rico, Felix Trinidad comes to meet with Rashad. Rashad says he wants to change Jones’ life.

Jones talks about his older sister passing away from a brain tumor.

Jones says that he can be better than he can even fathom and that people may find him cocky, but they don’t realize what he’s been through in his life.

Verdict: As you can tell by my lack of actual writing, there wasn’t a whole lot of context to what they were doing. There was a lot of training and they tried to tell a little bit of a deeper story to show depth in the guys. It wasn’t as effective in actually building the fight, but did give the guys more meaning in why the fight is important to them.

Rashad Evans says the first time he knew Jon Jones planned to fight him was when he saw Jones reading a book of moves before a fight and when Evans came in to wish him luck, Jones covered up his notes.

Evans says that Greg Jackson came to him asking to bring Jones on the team and Evans noticed that he’d be someone that he’d have to fight down the line and wasn’t comfortable. He says that Jackson told him it wouldn’t go down like that and he’d have to trust him and if it did go down, he’d stick with Evans.

They show a clip of Jones being interviewed by Ariel Helwani and Jones says if Dana wanted him to fight Rashad, he’d have to do it. Rashad says before, they both would say they were like brothers and would never fight each other.

Jackson says there’s no negative animosity that he has for Rashad. Jackson says he didn’t have the protocol in place for when teammates needed to fight teammates. Jones says he’s done nothing wrong and Rashad got outworked and needed to fight Jones. Jackson is going to work Jones’ corner after deciding against it initially.

Jones says Rashad just wasted the last 3-4 months of his life training because there’s no way he can win.

Evans’ Blackzillians Team is contrasted with why he’s not fighting with Greg Jackson anymore. Evans seems to want his new team to be everything that his old team wasn’t. He says that he doesn’t have family in South Florida so his teammates are his family.

Jones’ brother Arthur, starting defensive end for the Baltimore Ravens, is a big part of Jones’ camp because he keeps Jones working hard, much like when they were kids since Arthur was the better athlete growing up. Bones still wants to impress him. Bones is the little brother who always has something to prove. Arthur is the older brother who will always be the older brother.

Verdict: This show did a fantastic job at making Evans a compelling babyface. Jones is so business-like that he’s become nearly unlikable. However, being that I have two kids and I see the big brother/little brother dynamic, I sort of get it. Bones has always had to keep up with his big bro who is an exceptional athlete and Evans tried to treat him like a little bro. Great stuff.

Carlos Condit says people are already counting him out and that’s a mistake. Cesar Gracie says Nick Diaz has a focused anger and understands that Condit is just in his way and needs to be eliminated.

Condit trains in the high altitude by tiring himself out and then when he’s tired, he starts striking and grappling so his body gets used to performing when tired.

Greg Jackson says Diaz is better off his back than when he’s on the top when it comes to jiu-jitsu. He also tells Condit to fight his fight rather than to worry about what Diaz does when they get on the ground.

Diaz missed three fights into Vegas before making his flight. Both guys hate the media and all the other responsibilities that comes with being in the main event.

Condit wears a suit to the Thursday press conference. Nick Diaz wears a hoody as does Dana White. Diaz hates the questions because he’s moody from his weight cut. Condit hates the questions too and thinks he’s being overlooked. Both guys whined their way to the end of the show.

Bottom Line: The show wasn’t very interesting and there wasn’t much too it. There was no GSP either curiously. They both sort of looked bad at the end considering they were in the main event in a big fight and came off a bit like whiners.

I wonder if we’ll get more than 5 minutes of Nick Diaz this week?

Diaz says he started doing jiu-jitsu when he was about 15 or 16 and that’s when he met his MMA coach. He dropped out of school at the age of 16 to go into MMA full-time.

His Sambo coach said that he has his own drive and you don’t need to tell him to do things like run. Steve Heath, his MMA coach says that Diaz doesn’t have an off switch. He’s always training. He does marathon’s for fun.

Carlos Condit says that if he wasn’t a fighter, he’d be in the military and says that he’s a warrior. He loves shooting guns.

The Condits get together for family meals with 30 or 40 cousins. His dad says that when he gets closer to fight time, you see the happy Carlos less and less in favor of the determined Carlos.

The Diaz brothers are instructors at their gym. Imagine Nick and Nate instructing your kids in MMA. Nate says that Nick is his life coach. It seems like Nick can love his brother like he does because he can trust him.

Georges St. Pierre says he prays every night that Nick Diaz beats Carlos Condit so he can fight him when he’s healthy. GSP says that Diaz isn’t really crazy and that’s a fake crazy. GSP says he’s probably been in more street fights than Nick has.

Diaz says that in order to love fighting, he has to hate it. And he sort of makes sense in this weird circular way.

Bottom Line: They did a fantastic job of building up Nick Diaz vs. Georges St. Pierre and not such a great job building up Diaz vs. Carlos Condit. They’ve done an interesting angle with Diaz. Rather than show off his crazy side, they’re showing off a sensitive, uncertain side of him. He’s almost child-like. Condit comes off as way too regular kind of guy to be in a main event. The problem isn’t if he loses since Diaz is the star. It’s if he wins.