The Blackwood Combat Academy in Liverpool is a renowned, brutal training ground for aspiring MMA fighters. Liam “Lucky” O’Connell, a quick-witted Irishman with an uncanny ability to absorb fighting styles, scrapes by as a sparring partner to fund his sister’s life-saving medical treatments. His talent quickly elevates him to a sought-after training asset, but his rise attracts the venomous attention of the Academy's ruthless manager, Viktor Volkov. Thrown into a viper's nest of corruption, fixed fights, and dangerous debts, Liam must not only survive, but seize the opportunity to claw his way to the top and expose the darkness that lurks beneath the glitz of the combat world.