Max Cooperman: It's, um, Max Cooperman And Baja Miller? That was too easy. Max Cooperman: [walks up to a couple of girls] So you guys play X-Box, a lot?

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Jake is a headstrong teen suffering from anger issues and survivor's guilt. After being baited into and brutalized in a fight, Jake takes up MMA, healthily venting his anger and becoming a better person. He believes her latching onto him a return of his attraction. In truth, Baja planned to lure Jake to her rich boyfriend Ryan's party so the two boys could spar. Baja had not counted on Ryan's psychopathic sadism causing him to almost kill Jake, filling Baja with severe guilt.

Jake Tyler is the new kid in town with a troubled past. He has recently moved to Orlando, Florida with his family who has relocated to support his younger brother's shot at a professional tennis career. Jake was a star athlete on the football team at home, but in this new city he is an outsider with a reputation for being a quick tempered brawler. Making an attempt to fit in, at the invitation of a flirtatious classmate, Baja Jake goes to a party where he is unwittingly pulled into a fight with a bully named Ryan McDonald.