 A popular young boxer on his way up, Tony Triano, is shotgunned to death on a dark city street by professional hit men. His family is devastated - who would want the generous Tony dead ? Especially hard-hit is Tony s mediocre stablemate Gino, who Tony helped get fights. Tony s family hires Peter Gunn to find who killed Tony. When the drunken Gino comes to Mother s nightclub to meet with Gunn, he s waylaid and beaten by the hit men.