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Line 1: {{~~trope~~work}} [[File:neverbackdown.jpg\|frame]] {{quote\| "If you want to be the best, you have to take down the best."}} Jake Tyler is your average boy from Iowa. Except that his dad is dead and as a result, Jake is angry all the time and expends his excess energy by beating the crap out of anyone who makes the slightest comment involving his lack of ongoing male adult influence. His brother is a budding tennis star who gets a scholarship to a good tennis school in Florida. As Jake is in severe trouble at home in Iowa, this is a good move for all involved. Once he arrives in Florida, he finds something new and unexpected: [[Mixed Martial Arts]]. Seemingly the entire school is involved in an unofficial MMA club. Yes, the ''whole school'', even the ladies, has a singular obsession with MMA. As things progress, Jake gets beaten senseless by Ryan, the school's resident [[Jerkass]], in a fight that was unwanted by Jake and instigated by Ryan's innate ability to sense his opponent's [[Berserk Button]] and proceed to mash it repeatedly. This fight is Jake's first lesson in MMA. His friend then gets him into formal MMA training, where [[Scary Black Man\|Jean Roqua]] teaches Jake how to defeat any opponent. Many matches later, Jake ends up facing Ryan in a one-on-one fight to determine, once and for all, who the better fighter is. Line 19: * [[Designated Girl Fight]]: [[Played With]]: We first see two girls fighting it out at a party. Moments later, we see "The Battle of the Exes", with a girl kicking the crap out of a guy twice her size. * [[Easily-Distracted Referee]]: Averted. Ryan cheats by [[Eye Scream\|using an eye gouge]] on his opponent. The ref notices the resulting injury a few seconds later and [[Laser-Guided Karma\|disqualifies him on the spot]]. * [[Eye Scream]]: Ryan performs an eye gouge on an opponent during the semifinal match at the Beatdown. * [[Inevitable Tournament]]: The Beatdown is mentioned, but Jake says he doesn't want to fight in it. Guess what he ends up doing. * [[I Have No Son]]: What Roqua's dad told him after his brother was killed as a result of a brawl when they were out at a bar. Line 29: * [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: After Ryan is disqualified, Jake forfeits his semifinal match because he was only in the tournament to beat Ryan. * [[Title Drop]]: Delivered by Roqua during his [[Rousing Speech]]. * [[Training ~~From~~from Hell]]: The Combat 365 gym. Jake is a football player and finds himself struggling to keep up (at least until the [[Training Montage]]). * [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?]]: Baja suggests that her parents smoked a lot of weed. {{reflist}} [[Category:Films of the 2000s]] [[Category:~~Never Back Down~~{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Film]]