Buck Matthews

Buck Matthews is the protagonist in the 1986 action movie Eye of the Tiger.
Buck Matthews is protrayed by Gary Busey. 
==Biography==
Buck Matthews was a Vietnam veteran and former inmate, who got in a bar fight years earlier, in addition to being framed for a murder. Sheriff Copeland, who is corrupt, sent Buck to prison, even though his deputy Roscoe was there and saw the whole thing. When Buck is let out of prison on parole, gets a ride time to his home town of River City from Jamie, a fellow inmate who is a Miami-based Colombian drug kingpin whom Buck saved during a prison riot. Jamie wanted to pay Buck back but Buck thinks it is not necessary.
Buck goes to to see Sheriff Copeland who does not like Buck, telling him he wants him out of town. After seeing the sheriff, Buck sees his friend, Buck's friend, J.B. Deveraux, a local deputy who is also a Vietnam veteran, getting ready to retire as a cop, gives buck a ride home. Buck sees his wife Christine and his 5 year-old daughter, Jennifer. Christine and Buck talk, talking about Buck's job and some of the things happening in the town. Buck returns to his job at a construction job, who used to be the foreman till he went to prison and has to start from the beginning. After he gets off from work, Buck sees some guys on motorcycles raping a woman named Dawn Reynolds, and saves her. Dawn is a nurse as the local hospital. Blade, the leader of the motorcycle gang and lead drug dealer sees Buck saving her.
Sheriff Copeland does not like what Buck did, telling him it is his job to enforce the law. He tells Buck he could send him back to prison for the vigilante thing. Buck leaves and arrives home and some of his friends from work and reporters trying to interview Buck. Buck goes inside his house to talk to Christine. Blade watched the news and is pissed off at Buck. Later on, Buck gets a visit from J.B. about the biker gang and tells Buck about the gang and they might retaliate. Christine convinces Buck that they should leave. Later on that night, some of the members of the biker gang come to Buck's house and ride into the house, wounding Buck, then killing Christine, and causing Jennifer to go into shock. At the hospital, Buck is at the chapel, praying, Father Healey, who talks to Buck. Buck makes a call to Jamie for help, the favor he owes him.
Buck would get a gift from Jamie, a truck with some special features in it like some artillery. Buck would them start his quest for vengeance, killing the brother of Blade. Sheriff Copeland knows it's Buck that killed him, but can't prove it. Later on that day, the motorcycle gang dig up Christine's grave and drag the coffin to Buck's house. Buck is shocked and starts to dig a grave for her. Roscoe visits Buck and tells him about leaving. Roscoe sees Buck's gun and does not take buck in and drives off. Buck would continue his quest for vengeance, setting some of biker gang to to be killed by a bomb in Buck's old truck, killing a few of them.
Buck and J.B. would deal with some more bikers who are terrorizing a couple and, killing one of the bikers and the other one caving in his larynx. Buck would later on go to the local bingo game and plead some of the people for help, refusing cause they are scared. Buck is at the hospital and thanks Dawn for helping Jennifer. Buck and Dawn Reynolds talk later on about things and the people of the town. Jimmy, the protector of Jennifer gets murdered by some members of the biker gang and kidnap Jennifer. Buck finds out from Dawn later on his daughter is kidnapped and Buck goes to the hospital and sees Sheriff Copeland and disguises himself as a doctor and pays the voiceless biker a visit at the hospital and tries to get him to write down where they tool Jennifer is but at first refuses. Buck ties his feet to the side post of the bed and then gets a stick of dynamite and puts some vasoline on it and shoves it up his ass and lights the fuse and the biker writes it down. Buck runs off and the the dynamite is a dud and he dies of a heart attack. Sheriff Copeland sees Buck and tries to arrest him but Father Healey stops Copeland, Buck gets away.
J.B. agrees to help Buck, J.B. is flying a bomb-dropping crop duster airplane, Buck, successfully defeats the gang and rescues his daughter. The Sheriff tries to have Buck arrested, however the deputies, having enough of his corruption rebel against him and willingly let Buck deal with him. In an explosive climax, Buck has the sheriff killed (it seems Sheriff Copeland framed Buck for a murder committed years earlier) by offering him as a target for the gang, and then has a one-on-one fistfight with Blade, which ends with the death of the villain when he accidentally ingests cocaine the gang is manufacturing. With their leader dead, the surviving motorcycle gang members ride away.
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