spoiler handsome and and too pretty to be a pug and robert taylor a boxer tommy mccoy be quite convincing in the ring a a professional boxer a he be out of it . where he have all the young lady and on the screen and in the audience and go completely bananas over him include pretty sheila carson and maureen osullivan . the daughter of his manager jim cain who really big time wall street honcho james w. carson and edward arnold . match up in a bout with his good friend and boyhood hero former light heavyweight champ johnny martin and william gargan . tommy try to go easy on the over the hill ex champ but catch him with a solid left hook in the second round that not only knock johnny out but end up kill him . with johnny leave a wife and young son behind and nobody to look after them tommy give her his share of the purse . instead of pay off his irresponsible dad brian mccoy and frank morgan and debt that he owe big time bookie jim cain . tommy outrage to find out that his father sell out his contract to cain walk out on him and box . out on the street for six month without any work tommy come back to cain for a job and agrees and reluctantly and to fight for him and give 10 % of his purse to the late johnny martin famiy and at the same time have his dad front a his manager . at the carson estate and where cain tell tommy that he rent out and tommy and after meet carson daughter sheila and realize that carson be really wall street banker jam w. carson . to his credit tommy doesn not tell sheila that not to hurt her by expose her father double life . cain use tommy in a scam to trick big time gambler like his fellow bookie pug walsh and nat pendleton and to bet against him . tell them that tommy a left hand one punch palooka without a right hand . after a string of lucky punch victory by tommy pug start to get suspicious about cain play him a a sucker . one day and together with member of his gang and cain run into tommy dad at a local bar . drunk and talk freely about the scam be pull by both tommy and cain the unaware mr. mccoy spill the bean and end up be kidnap by the walsh gang . find out about cain scheme and him have a daughter who in love with tommy the mobster also kidnap sheila . tommy inform through a flower gram to throw the fight he have that night at the garden if he ever want to see them alive again . tell to take a dive in the eight round and pug bet $ 10 and 000 . 00 for that to happen and mean that tommy have to take a vicious beating for seven round . tommy just about out on his foot by the time the eight round start find out from sheila and who escape from the walsh mob and that his dad in the end make up for all the heartbreak that he do to him and his mom through the year . in one final and unselfish act mr. mccoy become the father to tommy that up until then he never be while you can just guess what happen in that faithful eight round after the battered and almost beat tommy mccoy hear that bit of news .