Quinton Zanargo is a sensitive and angry young man who is about to become a muay thai prizefighter by accident. In his mid-twenties, hamstrung by a series of events that have been less than kind to him, Quinton chooses to make his home in the little town of Eugene, Oregon, where he hides from the world through compulsively renting movies at a local video store. His only friend is a homeless man who lives in an alley behind the liquor store, and they aren’t really friends.

Stumbling through his drunken odyssey Quinton develops a magnetism for violence and finds his way to a muay thai kickboxing gym run by an ex-hippy painter. Somehow, between squaring off against brutally efficient martial artists and falling for a beautiful young religion-shopping video store employee, Quinton rediscovers himself.

Rumble Young Man Rumble is a coming of age story that follows Quinton as he journeys from the black bag of raging misanthropy into the bright lights of a fighting arena, where he learns the glaring truth behind an age-old prizefighting mantra: there are many fights in life, not all of which occur in the ring.