Jose Serpa

Friends and, years later, in-laws, Carlos Rivera and Manny Gonzalez, grow up in a tough South Bronx neighborhood and spend a good part of their youth fighting rival neighborhood kids.With a stroke of luck, the boys learn how to box at the Police Athletic League around the same time Manny starts dating Carlos' sister, Maria. She doesn't care for this "boxing thing" but figures it's better than them getting in trouble on the streets. Fast learners,...