Jake is a headstrong teen suffering from anger issues and survivor's guilt. After being baited into and brutalized in a fight, Jake takes up MMA, healthily venting his anger and becoming a better person. He believes her latching onto him a return of his attraction. In truth, Baja planned to lure Jake to her rich boyfriend Ryan's party so the two boys could spar. Baja had not counted on Ryan's psychopathic sadism causing him to almost kill Jake, filling Baja with severe guilt.

The movie contains, however, a mixed worldview with plenty of foul language, very strong violence, underage drinking, and a completely gratuitous homosexual reference between two very minor characters. Then, an Internet video of his fight on the football field makes its way around the campus. Ryan goads Jake into a fight. Jake is no match for the mixed martial arts skills of Ryan, however, who takes pleasure in hurting Jake and knocking him out with a roundhouse kick.

The movie was released on March 14, The film is about a frustrated and conflicted and arrogant teenager who arrives at a new high school to discover an underground fight club. 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. 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 an internet video of him starting a fight at one of his football games after a frustrated player from the opposing team taunted Jake about his father, who died in a drunk-driving car crash with Jake in the car , circulates around his new school. 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 MMA champion at the school, Ryan McCarthy.