9/22/2023 0 Comments British socialite bloody nose![]() Lean and wiry, she has a stare that can frighten off any who see her as an easy mark, and those who aren't scared off, she can beat them down. Zara, The Teacher, the only woman to enter the tournament. He's looking to provide his family with the means for a better life. He chooses to back: -William, The Instructor, a martial arts sensei and a devoted family man with a young child. He needs to win as badly as some of the fighters. Though a successful businessman, he's starting to get into financial trouble, and he has a young daughter on the way. ++- Murray Burnett, an ex-boxer with a gambling problem. The Triad has entered the tournament to raise it. The uncle, needing to explain this to his own superiors, is demanding that his nephew provide recompense. He misappropriated a large sum of money from his uncle, a high-up in their family. Feared as a brutal enforcer with many contacts. Leon, The Triad, an actual member of the Chinese Triad organized crime families. Vain and arrogant, he's a callous chauvinist who sees women as his playthings to tempt and then scorn. Although making his living wearing fancy clothes, he's a deadly opponent in a fight and wants to prove he's the best. She chooses to back: -Joey, The Model, a conceited man who makes a living with his face and body. She's become a backer in the tournament merely for the excitement and the rush of seeing the combat. She's sexy and manipulative, using her assets to her advantage. ++- Kari Meadows, the bored socialite wife of a multi-millionaire. He's turned to the tournament to get the money that will put his life back together and help him focus on his new family. In prison he found God, and is now married with a young daughter. ![]() Nathan, The Ex-Convict, a former club doorman who got into an altercation with a drunk patron and smashed his skull. Overall, a very dangerous man fighting in the tournament seemingly just for the sake of fighting. Recently went AWOL, and is a loose cannon and live wire who punched out a sergeant. He chooses to back: -Corporal Smith, The Soldier, an actual soldier in the British army. Still, he's a risk-taker and competitor by nature, who needs to win for the sake of winning. ++- In the corporate conference room, the sponsors place their bets: Lamont Gaines, a self-made, independently wealthy man who doesn't need the money. He warns them that only one will win, and they all know the stakes. ![]() Fidel then addresses the twelve fighters in a seedy-looking building with a well-kept interior, where the fighters will live and train during the tournament. The sponsor who backed that fighter will receive another half million, and the remaining 200,000 pounds is kept by Fidel's company as 'handling fees and other expenses.' Each fight will take place in secluded, run down areas of England before a select audience, and will be filmed and streamed over the web. When one fighter is named champion, that fighter will receive half a million pounds worth of the total pot. Fidel promises an action-packed entertainment experience for all the sponsors. Further, the sponsors choose which fighter is to fight against which. Each of the six executives is to sponsor two of the fighters, investing 100,000 English pounds in each of them, for a total pot of 1.2 million. ![]() Twelve fighters have been assembled to compete in a no-holds-barred elimination tournament lasting six weeks. Cameras focus on a building somewhere in England, and into a conference room where six people in business attire are gathered together with a shady man named Fidel, who is overseeing the tournament. The movie opens with a series of still photos and shots of newspaper clippings on the rise in illegal underground fighting, interspersed with scenes of such combat and a series of title cards. (NOTE: For the sake of uniformity and proper synopsis formatting, some events, like the introduction and backgrounds of the fighters and the investors backing the tournament, will be listed all near the beginning of the synopsis, rather than at the points whey they occur in the movie.)
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