In the pilot episode, Tom Wheeling, fight manager, is working with his star welterweight, Patrick Murphy. The problem is, Murphy isn’t interested in working any harder than he has to, and Tom is more and more frustrated with the lack of good sparring partners. He needs to test his star. In comes Mac Buckley, local promoter. Buckley has a proposition: he can get Murphy onto the card at an upcoming show in Madison Square Garden. The hitch is, he wants a piece of Murphy. Tom is excited about the prospect of getting a fighter into the Garden, but he doesn’t trust Mac Buckley. They have a history together and he believes there’s more to this than meets the eye. And there is. Mac is trying to steal Murphy from Tom, and there is little, so it seems, that Tom can do about it. Mac Buckley is rich and he’s already seduced the naive star. Finnegan Burke, Tom’s friend and the gym trainer, however, comes up with a solution. Steal the brand new car that Mac Buckley has been promising Murphy. They attempt to steal the car but Mac is sleeping in it and catches them red handed. Mac wants to know why they’re stealing his car and so they tell him. They’re afraid of losing their star. Mac then tells them the truth: he isn’t what he seems. In fact, he’s got no home to go to. He’s really down on his luck. They make a pact together: with Tom’s direction, Finnegan training, and Mac making the deals, they’ll bring Murphy to Madison Square Garden and make the fight of a lifetime. The only problem is, Murphy has been built up to seem better than he is. In fact, he can’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag. So they’ll have to find a wet paper bag.