Iron & Salt

Original Series

She is an undefeated MMA fighter. Her gym is funded by a man whose money she has started to have questions about. Her questions have answers. The answers are dangerous. Deja Okafor, 29, is undefeated in mixed martial arts — twelve wins, no losses, a fighting style that combines Muay Thai, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and a specific capacity for controlled aggression that her coaches call 'the Okafor problem' (she is too good at finding her opponent's structural weakness before they know it exists). Her gym, IRON & SALT, was built with financing from Elias Krane — a sports investment figure whose money came from somewhere she stopped asking about at nineteen. At twenty-nine, she has started asking again. Three seasons follow Deja's investigation of Krane's network from inside the gym that his money built — training for a world title fight while simultaneously dismantling the financial architecture that made her career possible. S1E1 — The Record Deja training. The twelfth win. The party in the gym afterward. Krane's toast. Deja's eyes during it. S2E7 — The Wire Deja begins cooperating with Agent Hassan — inside the gym, inside Krane's events, wearing a wire under the slate-blue compression set. Every training session now both workout and operation. S3E10 — The Fight Series finale: The world title fight and the Krane case reaching their simultaneous conclusions. Deja in the octagon. The FBI outside the arena. The result of both on the same night.

Story added by mr95 on September 5, 2026