Charlie Kenton é um ex-pugilista que perdeu a sua oportunidade de ganhar o título quando robôs gigantes tomaram conta do ringue. Charlie, é agora um insignificante promotor de combates que sobrevive a arranjar, peça a peça, robôs já descartados que posteriormente utiliza em combates ilegais. Quando já pouco ou nada resta da sua dignidade, Charlie, relutantemente, junta-se ao seu filho Max, em cuja vida nunca esteve presente, para construir e treinar um verdadeiro campeão. Quando, na brutal e implacável arena é elevada a fasquia, Charlie e Max, contra todas as expectativas, encontram ali a sua última chance para um regresso apoteótico.
Num futuro próximo, a Ordem Mundial mudou. Com 10 milhões de desempregados, a França é um dos países mais pobres do mundo. A população oscila entre a revolta e resignação e encontra nas lutas ultra-violentas exibidas na TV, uma forma de descomprimir.
Charles Bronson demonstra toda sua força e habilidade neste drama de ação sobre um desempregado durante a Grande Depressão cuja única alternativa é lutar nas ruas. Chaney (Bronson), é um desafortunado que embarca num trem para Nova Orleans. Lá, no lado mis pobre da cidade, ele tenta ganhar dinheiro rápido da única maneira que conhece com os punhos. Chaney se aproxima de Speed (James Coburn) e o convence que pode ganhar um bom dinheiro para ambos. Ele ganha algumas lutas ilegais mas Speed tem um débito com uma gangue de assassinos, o que força Chaney a lutar pela última vez com Street, um monstro imenso em uma luta sem regras ou juiz.
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
Mountain Rivera is a veteran heavyweight and near-champion who suddenly finds himself washed up in the only trade he knows—prizefighting. Yet, threatened by gangsters for welshing on a gambling debt, Mountain’s opportunistic manager, Maish Rennick, schemes to get the ex-boxer into a phony wrestling match to make some quick money. Although he and his loyal trainer, Army, oppose the degrading proposition, the disillusioned Mountain begins to wonder if he has any options left.
To restore his family's lost wealth, a young Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the California Gold Rush. When their very proper butler gives chase, all roads lead to nonstop adventure, wild and woolly characters, and a lucky punch that leads to a bonanza of belly laughs!
Jack One Round Saunders é um lutador de boxe que perde a luta e a mulher para Bob e passa a treinar para uma histórica revanche. Ele quer simplesmente o Albert Hall como palco de sua nova luta contra Bob.
A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl's heart.
A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
Sach is given a post-hypnotic suggestion that turns him into a championship prizefighter.
A prize-fighting boxer with a lethal right punch falls for a gangster's moll on the run in Mexico.
Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his fiancée and career to marry Lulu Bell. When his money runs out, Lulu Belle goes to work in a New Orleans club run by tough gambler Mark Brady. She tries to send George back to Natchez by pretending that she has fallen for prize-fighter Butch Cooper but George, in a fit of jealousy, drives a handful of forks into Butch's face. He is sent to prison and Lulu goes to New York with millionaire Harry Randolph, who makes her the singing sensation of Broadway and asks her to marry him. She refuses when she learns that George has been released from prison, realizing that he is the only man she ever truly loved.
Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxing and wants out. Not wanting to let down his best friend and manager Skeets Maguire, who has hopes of him becoming the next champion, he is reluctant to bring up the subject with him. Maisie convinces Terry to tell Skeets, whose unexpected reaction induces him to step into the ring again.
Prizefighter Bob Neal (Ray Walker) is in debt to gangster Vic Santell (Hooper Atchley) for training expenses. Santell orders Bob to take a dive in the fourth round so Santell can recoup prior gambling losses. Taunted by his ring opponent, Bob wins the fight. Realizing that his profession and underworld characters connected to it are causing him problems, Bob decides to join the police force. After taking nurse Mary Prentiss (Geneva Mitchell) to a drive-in restaurant where the total bill is a depression-era cheap eighty-two cents, Bob and his fellow officers round-up a gang of fur thieves in a warehouse shoot-out.
An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back."
An ex-prize fighter -- now reporter -- tries to expose a gambling ring after an uneven bout in the ring kills a pugilist.
Hotheaded laborer B.J. Hammer can't go long without ending up in a fight, and, after he comes out on top in a particularly impressive workplace scuffle, word of his brawling skills makes its way to Davis, a top boxing manager. Hammer is hired by Davis and begins a lucrative career in the ring, only to find out that his new employer wants him to throw a fight and take part in other illicit activities. Hammer reacts to this news violently, and the feud is on.
Womanpower (1926)