Jake arrives at the tournament where it is about to begin. Roqua eventually assents and tells him to "control the outcome" of the fight. Before he goes to the tournament, he has a brief argument with Roqua about his decision to fight. Jake and Baja take Max to the hospital where Jake decides to fight and when Baja begs him not to, he states that doing nothing has consequences. Jake discovers that Roqua is from Brazil and he is in exile because he believes he is the reason his brother, Joseph the favorite son, was killed and his father had disowned him for this.Īfter being informed that Jake has decided not to compete in the Beatdown, Ryan invites Max to hang out at his house there he begins to spar with Max before brutally assaulting him and leaving him at Jake's door.
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While training with Roqua, Jake inquires why he lives in the gym. Jake apologizes to Baja for not listening when she first apologized and the two proceed to begin a relationship. He then prepares to compete in the Beatdown. Roqua agrees to allow Jake to train at his gym again, but does not take it easy on him anymore. After having been banished from the gym by Roqua after his fight is discovered, Jake begs for forgiveness saying his anger is quelled when he is training with Roqua. Ryan then proceeds to challenge Jake to compete in the Beatdown, an underground fighting tournament of which Ryan is the reigning champion. This video again circulates around the school raising Jake's social status but in the process only annoying Ryan. After Ryan insults him again and leaves, Jake attends training with Roqua while still angry about the incident Roqua asks Jake to leave to "cool off".Īfter he and Max leave the gym Jake gets into a brawl with a group of guys in a Hummer whom Jake easily disposes of while Max films. Ryan begins to create a scene before the entire school but Jake steps in to defend Baja. Baja then confronts Ryan about the fight with Jake and then proceeds to end their relationship. Baja attempts to apologize to Jake, but he does not sympathize with her and refuses to forgive her. Roqua agrees to take Jake as a pupil, but under the condition of Jake being unable to fight outside of the gym which Jake agrees to, though knowing he wishes to confront Ryan anyway. It is immediately apparent to Jake that MMA is not street fighting, but rather an art form he wants to master.
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He sees a star in Jake and asks that he meet with his mentor, Jean Roqua. Unsurprisingly, Jake is defeated in the fight, but a classmate, Max Cooperman, who later becomes one of his best friends introduces himself to Jake and tells him about the sport known as Mixed Martial Arts. Originally, Jake does not wish to fight until Ryan taunts him about his father who died while driving drunk with Jake in the car. Making an attempt to fit in, at the invitation of a flirtatious classmate, Baja Miller Jake goes to a party where he is unwillingly pulled into a fight with the fighting champion at the school, Ryan McCarthy. Jake was a star athlete on the football team at home, but in this new city, he is an outsider with a reputation for being a quick tempered brawler after a video of him on the Internet starting a fight in a football game, because one of his opponents made a rash comment about Jake's dead father, circulates around his new school.
MOVIE NEVER BACK DOWN PROFESSIONAL
Jake Tyler has recently moved from Iowa to Orlando, Florida with his mother, Margret, and younger brother, Charlie, to support Charlie's shot at a professional tennis career. Never Back Down is a 2008 action film starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard, Cam Gigandet, and Djimon Hounsou.