A boxer from Brooklyn with a bad attitude and a fat belly gets beaten up by an old man. Seeking revenge, he returns to a boxing trainer, played by his real-life coach Paddy Carson, asking his coach to get him in shape so he can beat up the old man.
20-year-old Michael Jacobs (Ashley Chin) is about to have his first professional boxing match against the reigning champion, and his 60-year-old grandfather, Joe Jacobs (Paul Barber), cannot be there with him in his corner because he is ill in hospital.
In 2000 while in Cuba, filmmaker and amateur boxer Brin-Jonathan Butler started training at a small Havana gym under a coach named Hector. Brin soon discovered that Hector was in fact two-time Olympic gold medalist and boxing superstar Hector Vinent, who lived in Havana and hired out for private training at $6 per day.
A moment of bad luck derailed Deok-kyu's Olympic dreams and led him and his friends to jail. Jin-ho got out of jail quickly because of his rich parents, but Deok-kyu, Jae-seok, and Sang-hoon were not so lucky.
the champions training, swimming, ball punching, sparring, skipping, motor pacing (Burns at Medlow, Johnson at Botany);
the crowd arriving at the Stadium;
Ichiko, âgée de 32 ans, vit toujours chez ses parents, sans aucune activité constructive, jusqu'à ce que sa petite sœur récemment divorcée décide de revenir y habiter aussi avec son jeune fils. La cohabitation entre les deux sœurs se passe mal et Ichiko finit après une dispute par quitter brutalement le domicile, et doit prendre un petit boulot de nuit dans un « 100 Yen shop » pour subvenir à ses besoins. Elle se prend d'affection pour le boxeur Yuji Kano qui s’entraine à proximité, et passe régulièrement au magasin acheter des bananes. Elle se rapproche petit à petit de lui, et finit par se trouver entrainée elle-même dans le monde de la boxe.