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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Despite repeatedly turning him down, Scott flirts with the school nurse Bella Flores repeatedly throughout the film.



* AllForNothing: Late in the film, it's revealed [[spoiler:everything Scott has earned for the school has been embezzled away by a corrupt administrator, meaning the only way to save the music department is to beat UFC powerhouse Ken Deitrich]].

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* AllForNothing: Late in the film, it's revealed [[spoiler:everything Scott has had earned for the school has been embezzled away by a corrupt administrator, meaning the only way to save the music department is to beat UFC powerhouse Ken Deitrich]].Dietrich]].
* ArtisticLicenseSports: [[spoiler:Scott gets absolutely pummeled in his UFC fight against Ken Dietrich, landing essentially zero offense and being ''very'' close to being finished on multiple occasions through the first two rounds. Between rounds, Scott goes to the wrong corner, is clearly wobbly, and eventually stumbles into his own corner, nearly falling before he sits down. At the absolute least, a real UFC referee would have had the official doctor check on Scott to make sure he's still coherent enough to fight-- at worst, the fight would have been stopped between rounds]].



* ConsolationPrize: This is the impetus for Scott to take up UFC fighting as his means of saving the school's programs, when he hears that the loser of a fight gets 10 grand.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Scott teaches a citizenship class at night to earn extra money, and the students are all foreigners with a tenuous grasp on the English language, creating humorous situations where they don't understand what Scott is saying. Miguel, for example, thinks that Scott stepping down with another teacher taking his place means that they're all citizens now-- [[spoiler:when the students actually achieve their citizenship at the end of the film, Miguel thinks he's a ''two-time'' US citizen]].
* ConsolationPrize: This is the impetus for Scott to take up UFC fighting mixed martial arts as his means of saving the school's programs, when he hears that the loser of a UFC fight gets 10 grand.grand. He fights at much lower levels and thus doesn't make half of that in multiple fights, but he is still able to earn decent money despite not winning many fights.



* EpicFail: Scott makes a bet with Bella, the attractive school nurse, that if he can dunk a basketball, she'll go out with him. He quickly grabs a trampoline from off screen, and she protests that he's cheating, but he's undeterred, leaps off the trampoline... and doesn't even come close to getting the ball over the rim, falling flat on his face.



* HandshakeRefusal: The MMA version features in Scott's [[spoiler:UFC fight]]. [[TruthInTelevision When both fighters are given the chance to touch gloves as a show of sportsmanship before the bout begins, one or both fighters will sometimes refuse if there is bad blood on either end]]. In this case, Ken Dietrich chooses not to touch gloves when Scott offers-- Dietrich is highly offended that his fight (due to an injured opponent) when from a contest against a Top-20 opponent in UFC to one against a 42-year-old schoolteacher. [[spoiler:After Scott survives two brutally one-sided rounds, Dietrich [[VillainRespect offers a respectful glove touch]] to start the third round]].

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* HandshakeRefusal: The MMA version features in Scott's [[spoiler:UFC fight]]. [[TruthInTelevision When both fighters are given the chance to touch gloves as a show of sportsmanship before the bout begins, one or both fighters will sometimes refuse if there is bad blood on either end]]. In this case, Ken Dietrich chooses not to touch gloves when Scott offers-- Dietrich is highly offended that his fight (due to an injured opponent) when went from a contest against a Top-20 opponent in UFC to one against a 42-year-old schoolteacher. [[spoiler:After Scott survives two brutally one-sided rounds, Dietrich [[VillainRespect offers a respectful glove touch]] to start the third round]].



* OnTheMoney: $48,000 to save the school's extracurricular programs. Scott decides to raise the money by becoming a professional (low-level) mixed martial artist, after learning that at high levels, even the loser of the fight earns thousands of dollars for a single bout. [[spoiler: Then after he finds out that a corrupt administrator had [[AllForNothing embezzled away all the money he earned]], the only solution left is to ''win'' a fight against a legitimate UFC contender and get $50,000]].
* OpposingSportsTeam: Ken Deitrich, (fictional) UFC heavyweight stalwart and all-around super scary dude, is all that stands between Scott and reaching his goal of raising the $48,000, [[spoiler:and Scott has to win because all the money he had raised prior was embezzled by one of the school's administrators, so the $50,000 purse for the victor is the only chance remaining]], since he was already feeling [[DentedIron severely worn down]] from fighting so much.

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* OneHitKO:
** [[spoiler:Scott's very first fight sees him knocked out cold by a standing knee to the head as Voss appeared to be attempting a takedown]].
** [[spoiler:Scott knocks out fictional fighter Patrick Murphy with a single overhand right hand]].
* OnTheMoney: $48,000 to save the school's extracurricular programs. Scott decides to raise the money by becoming a professional (low-level) mixed martial artist, after learning that at high levels, even the loser of the fight earns thousands of dollars for a single bout. [[spoiler: Then after After he finds out that a corrupt administrator had [[AllForNothing embezzled away all the money he earned]], Scott earned, the only solution left is to ''win'' a fight against a legitimate UFC contender and get $50,000]].
$50,000]]]].
* OpposingSportsTeam: Ken Deitrich, Dietrich, (fictional) UFC heavyweight stalwart and all-around super scary dude, is all that stands between Scott and reaching his goal of raising the $48,000, [[spoiler:and Scott has to win because all the money he had raised prior was embezzled by one of the school's administrators, so the $50,000 purse for the victor is the only chance remaining]], since he was already feeling [[DentedIron severely worn down]] from fighting so much.


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* SpoilerCover: When the film was on Netflix, the page for the movie featured a shot of Voss in the octagon, [[spoiler:wearing UFC gloves, giving away the fact that he'd eventually get a fight in the UFC]].
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* OnTheMoney: $48,000 to save the school's extracurricular programs. Scott decides to raise the money by becoming a professional (low-level) mixed martial artist fighting, after learning that at high levels, even the loser of the fight earns thousands of dollars for a single fight. [[spoiler: Then after he finds out that a corrupt administrator had [[AllForNothing embezzled away all the money he earned]], the only solution left is to ''win'' a fight against a legitimate UFC contender and get $50,000.]]
* OpposingSportsTeam: Ken Deitrich, (fictional) UFC heavyweight stalwart and all-around super scary dude, is all that stands between Scott and reaching his goal of raising the $48,000, [[spoiler:and Scott has to win because all the money he had raised prior was embezzled by one of the school's administrators, so the $50,000 purse for winning is the only chance left]], since he was already feeling [[DentedIron severely worn down]] from fighting so much.

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* OnTheMoney: $48,000 to save the school's extracurricular programs. Scott decides to raise the money by becoming a professional (low-level) mixed martial artist fighting, artist, after learning that at high levels, even the loser of the fight earns thousands of dollars for a single fight. bout. [[spoiler: Then after he finds out that a corrupt administrator had [[AllForNothing embezzled away all the money he earned]], the only solution left is to ''win'' a fight against a legitimate UFC contender and get $50,000.]]
$50,000]].
* OpposingSportsTeam: Ken Deitrich, (fictional) UFC heavyweight stalwart and all-around super scary dude, is all that stands between Scott and reaching his goal of raising the $48,000, [[spoiler:and Scott has to win because all the money he had raised prior was embezzled by one of the school's administrators, so the $50,000 purse for winning the victor is the only chance left]], remaining]], since he was already feeling [[DentedIron severely worn down]] from fighting so much.

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