After leaving Max at the hospital, Jake goes to see Roqua and initially arguing over Jake's decision to participate in the Beatdown eventually relents and reminds Jake to 'control the outcome'.

Jake eventually becomes reluctant to compete at the Beatdown seeing it as something Ryan wants, but his mind is changed after Ryan invites Max to his house and assaults him, leaving him on Jake's doorstep to be found. Jake later on meets with Baja and apologizes for not forgiving her and they start a relationship. Jean's father blames him for the death, saying he should have been watching out for him. The man later returned with a gun and murdered his brother. He tells Jake that his brother was a skilled MMA fighter and had handily beaten a local troublemaker who had challenged him. After a workout, Roqua confides in Jake that he came from Brazil and is in self imposed exile.

Roqua puts Jake through more rigorous training which Jake uses in preparation for the Beatdown. A little while later, after Jake pleads with him, Roqua obliges and welcomes Jake back to the gym. When Roqua discovers that Jake has fought outside the gym, he kicks him out and tells him he is not welcome back. After cornering Jake in the bathroom and roughing him up, he challenges Jake to compete in the Beatdown, an underground fighting tournament of which Ryan is the reigning champion. Max films the video, which circulates around the school and raises Jake's social status which ends up agitating Ryan enough to confront Jake. Riding back from the gym with Max, Jake gets into a road rage brawl with a group of men whom he easily dispose of. At practice, with Jake still furious over what happened, is told by Roqua to leave the gym until he cools off. When Jake tries to intervene to protect Baja, Ryan insults him about his father again and leaves. When Ryan shows no remorse for his fight with Jake or his sadistic tendencies, Baja breaks up with him, to which Ryan responds by aggressively grabbing her. Baja tries to make amends with Jake by apologizing for her role in the fight between him and Ryan but Jake refuses to forgive her. While Jake trains under Roqua, he initially has difficulty doing so due to his anger towards his incident with Ryan. Roqua warns Jake that while he is under his instructorship, Jake cannot fight outside the gym no matter the reason and if he breaks the rule he will be thrown out of his gym. Jake manages to pass a few of Roqua's physical tests and impresses him with his willpower and is accepted as his student. Max Cooperman, after befriending Jake, introduces him to MMA and gets him connected with an instructor named Jean Roqua. Ryan easily defeats Jake, and video of the event circulates the school which leaves Jake humiliated. Initially refusing to fight, Jake readily agrees to fight Ryan when he makes fun of Jake's father's death. Later on, Jake is invited by classmate Baja Miller (whom he develops a crush on) to a party where he is unwillingly pulled into a fight with the MMA champion at the school, Ryan McCarthy, who is also Baja's boyfriend.

When Jake tries to intervene, he is told off by Max and his friends as the 'bullying' was actually a consensual mixed martial arts fight. Initially Jake has trouble fitting into his new school and while walking he sees Max Cooperman supposedly being beaten up by bullies. He has a rising reputation with the students of his new school due to an internet video of him when he was a football player at his previous school fighting with a frustrated opponent player who makes derogatory remarks about Jake's father.

His father died in a drunk-driving car crash accident, which is the subject of taunting from other classmates. Jake Tyler has recently moved from Iowa to Orlando, Florida with his mother, Margret and younger brother Charlie who is a budding Tennis star, the move being in furtherance of his tennis career. It received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed $41.6 million worldwide against a budget of $20 million. The film was theatrically released on March 14, 2008. It tells the story of a frustrated and conflicted teenager who arrives at a new high school and discovers an underground fight club there. Never Back Down is a 2008 American martial arts film directed by Jeff Wadlow and starring Sean Faris, Cam Gigandet, Amber Heard, and Djimon Hounsou.

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