At the beginning of the book Sonny had a fight against a guy name hoffer he won but they weren't calling the fight fair so sonny ran out to the parking lot and drove off and then he went back to the res and then he decided he wanted to go to New York
Gym
Sonny got to New York and he met a cop named brooks and then he met a guy named stick and they became close and he met a girl named doll that was with stick and he thought she was cute and then stick gave him a bag of drugs to take somewhere and he got on the bus and got caught by brooks and the other cops and then he got interviewed and brooks tried finding out where stick was
Main Event 
When sonny got to the jail he had to go threw everything and he had to go to get a haircut but he refused to do it so the lady called a officer over and sonny knocked him out and then he got put in a box and then brooks got him out and that he should join the gang named x-men and he declined and they jumped him   
The End 
After sonny got out he went and trained at Mr Donatelli Gym and brooks and Henry and some other guys trained him and then he had his first fight at Madison square garden  
Sonny was suppose to fight the best guy but someone snitched on him and he couldn't fight because he had fights where he took money so he got suspended and someone else had to fight his fight  
a day after sonny fight got canceled he found out brooks got shot and he knew it was by stick so he went and found stick and then when he walked in stick had a gun right at his stomach doll was there to and sonny was saying he could forgive stick and stick was going to give him money but as soon as he turned around sonny kicked him and got the gun passed it to Henry and grabbed him and put him against the wall and was going to shoot him but Henry talked him out of it and he turned him in