On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game." Through Genevieve's apprehensive eyes, we watch the prizefight that pits her fair young lover, "the Pride of West Oakland," against the savage and brutish John Ponta and that reveals as much about her own nature, and Joe's, as it does about the force that drives the two men in their violent, fateful encounter.

成功从来不是轻易就可以实现的，人生不如意十之八九，风光背后更多的是辛酸，生活中总会有不幸，平安才是福。《拳赛》这篇文章道出了底层人民生活的艰辛。拳手通过参加拳击赛赚钱养家，却没想到第一次带着心爱的女人去观赛时，却命丧黄泉。