Bobby "The Brawler" Bonetti is an up and coming heavyweight boxer in the Detroit circuit, who is not moving up the ladder fast enough. When he's given a shady opportunity to climb a few rungs and get a real opponent, he has to weigh the opportunity and what it would mean to his struggling family with what he would be giving up. Bonetti, wavering in his resolve, makes a an enemy of a man who no one wants to be an enemy, and he must pay for what he's done. Imprisoned on a bum rap, Bobby Bonetti now needs to balance not only his family and his love of fighting, but also his survival. The prison not only tears the man from the people closest to him, but it begins to pull him away from himself, and he is dubbed the prison champion, Fists. Fists is a story of fighting, of friendship, and of the lenghts we will go to take care of the people we love most, our families.