With the dilapidated building of Joe Frazier's Gym and the voices of Cambria Street in the background, former light heavyweight Kevin Dublin takes Julien Suaudeau through his old neighborhood and tells him how he met "Smoke" one night in the early 1980's. Story after story, the other side of the world champion comes into focus, what happens in the ring reverberates in a young fighter's life, and much-stereotyped North Philly emerges in a new light.