1810年，在伦敦的一个私人地下室里，发生了一场拳击比赛。这是一场发生在汤姆·莫利诺(TOM MOLINEAUX)和汤姆·克里布(TOM CRIBB)之间的战斗。无论谁赢得这场战斗，都将是无可争议的世界冠军。汤姆不公正地输了这场比赛。比尔是一名退休的黑人拳击手和教练，他想为他的徒弟莫利诺(Molineaux)再打一场比赛。比尔被这场比赛不公正和歧视的结果所困扰，他去找克里布的教练珀西，商议另一场比赛。但是珀西不愿意再冒一次险，因为克里布可能会输掉这场比赛。比尔花了整部电影试图把莫利诺变成一个英国绅士，并确保再次比赛。这部电影讲述的是他们奇怪但又可爱的关系。

In 1810, in a private cellar in London, one of the most auspicious fights in boxing took place. It was a fight between TOM MOLINEAUX, a freed slave from America and TOM CRIBB, the reigning Champion of England. Whoever won this fight would be the indisputable Champion of the World. TOM lost the fight unjustly. Bill, a Black retired boxer and trainer, wants to get a rematch for his protege, Molineaux. Consumed by his obsession over the unjust and discriminatory outcome of the fight, Bill goes to Cribb’s trainer, PERCY, to negotiate another fight. But Percy is unwilling to take another chance since Cribb could lose this match. Bill spends the film trying to transform Molineaux into an English Gentleman and secure a rematch. The film is about their strange but endearing relationship.