A little ‘karate kid’ comes creeping in when Jake starts to learn MMA and faces his own anger and issues simply to be allowed to keep training. The social groups and crappy popularity driven pressure of high school is well represented in this film like all other teen dramas. If high school (which I left MANY years ago) was anything to go by than I’d hate be surrounded by kids who actually have skills! So after severely hurting one of Jakes friends, Ryan gets the answer he’s after – Jake enters the Beatdown and the two get the fight to end all highschool fights. So Ryan starts cause problems for Jake and trys to bait Jake to fight him at the ‘Beatdown’ a local tournament. So he very quickly starts to gain some skill and earns a name for himself, which ticks off Ryan. Jake is then convinced by his friend to start training in MMA. Hungry to challenge Jake after seeing his fight, he baits Jake into a fight and beats the living shit out of him.

Ryan is basically the king of popularity and seemingly unbeatable in the ‘Street MMA’ circuit in the area.

Jake has trouble fitting in and is inevitably invited to a party where he meets Ryan. After all of the commotion his family moves away to Orlando, where his younger brother will train to become a professional Tennis player. Jake blames himself but erupts into a rage and knocks the other football player out with a right hook before being pulled away.

Never back down 4