Rubin "Binney "Gale, a local club fighter is overcome with grief when his son is killed. Kicked out of the gym, labeled washed up, his life and career is turned around one night in the cemetery, while visiting his son's grave he meets an old man The stranger offers to train Binney, but Binney is troubled, because the old man and the boxers in his gym have been dead for decades. Binney has a decision to make, how bad does he want to be the World Champion, is he willing to risk his sanity and perhaps his life to get the title. Gorgeous women, celebrity status and the title he covets, he could have it all but at what cost.