On the eve of his big comeback fight, Middleweight boxing champion Cole 'fists of' Steele won the match but lost everything. Three years later, with the help of Noise, a wily girl from the rundown streets where the ex-champion has found himself, he uncovers a way of clawing his life back. But first he'll need to punch his way through the city's corrupt underbelly and inadvertently earn himself the moniker of the Pugilist.—Grant Kempster