Double Pounder: A UFC Legend

**Double Pounder: A UFC Legend** is a sports drama movie, created by Nathan Network. The story follows Drew Arby, also referred to as his ring name, "Double Pounder" as he trains hard to defeat his opponent, Jordan Clich, also referred to as his ring name, "The Marsh".

## History

### Creation (2020-2021)

The writer, Malis C. Bawker, who also wrote Concentrated Drive, wanted to create a boxing film since the beginning of his career as he's always been a huge boxing fan. However, following the success of Concentrated Drive, Nathan Network had asked if Malis would want to write another film for the company. He said yes, and began production on Double Pounder.

Malis wanted to use the UFC name as it was very crucial to his artistic vision of the film, and he wanted it to be realistic like his previous films, however, when Nathan Network asked for the rights to use the UFC name, UFC wanted $90,000,000 to allow them to use the rights. Nathan Network chose to back out of the deal as the film may not have been worth the money, since it was a bit of a departure from what their audience may expect from Nathan Network, and Malis scrapped the film.

However almost 1 year later, Malis wrote another film, The Visit to Aunt Granny's, and the film was a massive success, and his friend Riptar Tryseptatop, had recently sold his successful company for $80,000,000 to NASCAR, and he decided to donate all of that money to Malis to make this film. Malis was able to spend another $10,000,000 he had gotten from the sales of Concentrated Drive and The Visit To Aunt Granny's, and he was finally able to pay for the rights to use the UFC name and the production for the film resumed.

### Release & reception (2021)

Double Pounder released on September 25th, 2021. The movie received mostly positive reception. With one of the critics, Raincoat Boatman saying this: "I love Double Pounder, I just wish he died at the end.. I don't know, might've been a cool ending.. Maybe, i'm not sure. Maybe I shouldn't have said that. But I did anyways, so it's to late to change the past. Overall, good film, but the pacing can be off sometimes."

Another critic named Richard Wrongson praised Drew's character saying: "I love the main protagonist, Drew/Double Pounder. I think he might be my new favorite movie protagonist of all time, very relatable character"

## Story

### First Fight / Meeting Trainer Kurr

The film begins with Drew "The Double Pounder" Arby, a new fighter making his debut at the UFC, going against professional UFC fighter, Jordan "The Marsh" Clich a professional UFC fighter. The two can be seen preparing for the fight.

The fight begins, however Drew slips almost instantly, and Jordan runs over to Drew and knocks him out, ending the fight. Drew's coach runs into the ring and yells at Drew for losing the fight. The coach proceeds to run away and quit coaching for Drew.

On his way home, Double Pounder meets a trainer named Kurr who claimed to have trained greats, such as Andre the Giant, and he offers to help train Drew since he believes he has potential, and he wants to help Drew defeat Clich.

### Training Begins / Clich Fights Tunafit

We then see Drew training with Kurr coaching him by kicking over chairs, lifting towels to work on strength, punching and kicking balloons, punching the air, punching Kurr's hands. They then watch a fight on TV that shows Jordan Clich versus another fighter named Dirk Tunafit, so they can learn how Clich fights. Tunafit proceeds to immediately tap after Clich pins him to the ground they then learn not to let Clich pin Drew to the ground, otherwise, the fight is over.

They then get back to training by punching Bounty paper towels, punching more balloons and then popping the balloon, and Drew questions if he can eat the balloon, he then tries to see if he can take Trainer Kurr down to the ground by grabbing his neck (which he does successfully), then they go on Instagram live and livestream their training progress, as he punches a punching bag.

### Second Fight Ahead / Press Conference

As Drew is training, Kurr comes in the room and he says that a contract came in the mail from UFC for the second Double Pounder v. Marsh fight, and that he needs Drew to sign it. Drew is happy to hear this news, and of course, signs the contract.

104 days later, Clich and Drew make it to a press conference about the fight. Starting off the press conference, Clich announces that he's gonna win the fight since he believes he can easily take down Drew, though Drew proceeds to be even more confident since he has been training for all these months. Clich also says that Drew's legs are like jelly. Drew mentions that he doesn't believe Clich is gay. Clich declares that he's not gonna change his skillset because he feels like Drew will be an easy opponent. Drew proceeds to say that he has steady footwork now and that he won't trip anymore. Drew says that just because Clich is more experienced, doesn't mean he will win, because Drew is more physically fit, Clich also mentions that he believes Drew will trip again. The announcer than states that they will no longer be accepting questions, so the 2 can simply just talk. Drew declares he's a little silly like a monkey, but still physically fit. Clich than shows that he knows how to do the worm and the crowd goes crazy over it, and he begins punching Drew until the crew had to break it up.

They then train more for 5 days for the fight.

### Second Fight

Trainer Kurr and Drew begin the day of the final fight by livestreaming to Instagram before the fight. The fight begins and Drew does consistently much better than the previous round, and Drew lands a couple of hits on Clich, however Clich hits Drew with 4 big hits knocking him the ground and knocking out Drew causing the fight to end.

We then see Drew on Instagram Live crying, and saying that he didn't know what went wrong. We hear Trainer Kurr try and give some support in the background but it doesn't work and Drew continues crying.