Although making his living wearing fancy clothes, he's a deadly opponent in a fight and wants to prove he's the best. She chooses to back: -Joey, The Model, a conceited man who makes a living with his face and body. She's become a backer in the tournament merely for the excitement and the rush of seeing the combat. She's sexy and manipulative, using her assets to her advantage. ++- Kari Meadows, the bored socialite wife of a multi-millionaire. He's turned to the tournament to get the money that will put his life back together and help him focus on his new family. In prison he found God, and is now married with a young daughter. Nathan, The Ex-Convict, a former club doorman who got into an altercation with a drunk patron and smashed his skull. Overall, a very dangerous man fighting in the tournament seemingly just for the sake of fighting. Recently went AWOL, and is a loose cannon and live wire who punched out a sergeant. He chooses to back: -Corporal Smith, The Soldier, an actual soldier in the British army. Still, he's a risk-taker and competitor by nature, who needs to win for the sake of winning. ++- In the corporate conference room, the sponsors place their bets: Lamont Gaines, a self-made, independently wealthy man who doesn't need the money. He warns them that only one will win, and they all know the stakes. Fidel then addresses the twelve fighters in a seedy-looking building with a well-kept interior, where the fighters will live and train during the tournament. The sponsor who backed that fighter will receive another half million, and the remaining 200,000 pounds is kept by Fidel's company as 'handling fees and other expenses.' Each fight will take place in secluded, run down areas of England before a select audience, and will be filmed and streamed over the web. When one fighter is named champion, that fighter will receive half a million pounds worth of the total pot. Fidel promises an action-packed entertainment experience for all the sponsors. Further, the sponsors choose which fighter is to fight against which. Each of the six executives is to sponsor two of the fighters, investing 100,000 English pounds in each of them, for a total pot of 1.2 million. Twelve fighters have been assembled to compete in a no-holds-barred elimination tournament lasting six weeks. Cameras focus on a building somewhere in England, and into a conference room where six people in business attire are gathered together with a shady man named Fidel, who is overseeing the tournament. The movie opens with a series of still photos and shots of newspaper clippings on the rise in illegal underground fighting, interspersed with scenes of such combat and a series of title cards. Each charge carries a maximum prison term of five to 40 years.(NOTE: For the sake of uniformity and proper synopsis formatting, some events, like the introduction and backgrounds of the fighters and the investors backing the tournament, will be listed all near the beginning of the synopsis, rather than at the points whey they occur in the movie.) Jurors deliberated for five full days before finding Maxwell guilty of five of six counts. Four women testified that they were abused as teenagers in the 1990s and early 2000s at Epstein’s homes in Florida, New York and New Mexico. The jury’s verdict capped a monthlong trial featuring sordid accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14. “We have already started the appeal tonight, and we believe that she will ultimately be vindicated.” We are very disappointed with the verdict,” read the statement. “We believe firmly in our sister’s innocence. > RELATED: Ghislaine Maxwell convicted in Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse case In a statement issued late Wednesday, the Maxwell family said it would support the British socialite’s efforts to appeal her conviction. LONDON > Members of Ghislaine Maxwell’s family say they still believe she is innocent after a New York jury found her guilty of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
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