Cast
Director
Jackie Lebo
Synopsis
Two of Kenya's most renowned boxing clubs are fighting for their survival. For Ndirangu "Coaches" Mahungu, head of the Dallas Boxing Club, the price of continuing the club's boxing heritage is sleeping with his eyes wide open. If he blinks, Muthurwa Community Hall, home of the boxing club will simply disappear. Since the building changed hands from Kenya Railways to City Council of Nairobi, there has been enormous pressure to cut it up into match box-size stalls and distribute them among the traders teeming around it. Of course, only a few would benefit, making the competition ever more fierce. People often go there demanding their portion of the building. They say they have already paid goodwill money at City Hall. Together with the Dallas Boxing Club, Madison Square Garden in Nakuru, the oldest boxing club in Kenya, accounted for a good number of famous names that comprised the Hit Squad, Kenya's once great national boxing team. The building that houses the club was gifted by a British settler in 1957. Now, the last trustee has died and his family is refusing to hand over the title deed to the club. Club Manager Mwangi "Don King" Muthoga leads the fight for the club which, along with its counterpart in Muthurwa, has always been a refuge for young people in the neighborhood for whom boxing is a lifeline from a life of crime, drugs and alcohol.
