Stephen McKinley Henderson as Pops, a seasoned trainer who works with Jackie.Sheila Atim as Bobbi 'Buddhakan' Berroa.Shamier Anderson as Immaculate, an MMA league owner who arranges the match between Jackie and Lady Killer.Halle Berry as Jackie "Pretty Bull" Justice.As they walk down the street, Jackie stops to help Manny tie his shoes and he speaks to her for the first time, accepting her as his mother. Despite this, she and the audience celebrate Jackie's successful comeback.Īfter reconciling with Buddhaken, Jackie goes back to Angel's, promising her son she is going to get them their own place. In the fifth and final round, Jackie matches Chavez blow-for-blow, ending in a split decision, where Chavez narrowly retains her championship. In the second and third rounds, her confidence builds as she wears down Chavez and wins over the audience. With only Pops in her corner, Jackie enters the fight against Chavez distracted, so the champion dominates the first round. However, when Buddhaken asks her to consider becoming official, Jackie admits she is not ready and Buddhaken goes on a bender, ending up hospitalized the day before the fight. Confessing her fears of returning to the ring, they kiss and become intimate. With no one else to turn to, Jackie starts living with Buddhaken, throwing herself into her training. Already on bad terms with her daughter (as Jackie accused her of letting her boyfriends and Jackie's uncle rape her as a child), Angel scornfully tells Jackie she is an unfit mother and that she will take over caring for Manny. He runs off, and a stranger brings him to Angel. Manny tries to comfort her, but she screams at him to go away. Jackie suffers a panic attack, reliving the memory of her last fight. Immaculate claims the fight is to get Jackie back into the UFC, but he later angrily admits he recruited her as a can against Chavez. Jackie will face Lucia "Lady Killer" Chavez, Invicta FC's flyweight champion, in an Atlantic City title bout. They, go to Angel, who reluctantly allows them to move in with her until the fight. She packs up their things, leaving him for good. Jackie's relationship with Desi deteriorates, until he finally snaps, smashing Manny's keyboard and hitting Jackie in the face when she tries to stop him.
Jackie enrolls Manny in school while learning to be a mother, even dumping all of her alcohol down the sink. Growing closer to Buddhaken, she learns she is also a mother, but has not seen her child in over two years after a messy divorce from her wife.
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Immaculate convinces her to sign a management contract with him infuriating Desi, but they eventually patch things up. Manny moves in with his mother and Desi, and Jackie, under Buddhaken's guidance, slowly regains her old form. The trauma caused Manny to stop speaking entirely. He has been placed in her custody after his father, Jackie's former boyfriend, was killed in a shooting. She has brought Manny, her son who she has not seen since he was an infant. Heading home, Jackie and Desi are pulled over by Jackie's estranged mother, Angel. He sets her up with Buddhaken and Pops, his best trainers, to get back into fighting shape. Catching the eye of Immaculate, a local promoter of Invicta Fighting Championships, an all-female MMA league, he recruits her into Invicta FC. When Jackie finally loses her temper, she pins the Werewolf down, and headbutts her unconscious. Recognized, the "Werewolf" provokes her into fighting. He pushes her to start fighting again, but she refuses, angrily blaming him for mismanaging her career.ĭesi takes Jackie to an illegal underground match, hoping to sign a new fighter. Earning a living as a housecleaner, she relies on alcohol to cope with the tedium of her daily life. Four years after forfeiting a major fight, former UFC fighter Jackie "Pretty Bull" Justice lives with boyfriend and manager, Desi, in inner-city Newark.
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