Tough Guys
10 years before the debut of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. In 1979, Bill Viola and Frank Caliguri dreamed up a contest pitting barroom bigmouths against wrestlers, martial artists, boxers, bouncers and brawlers, billed as no-holds-barred new type of competitive fighting. When the fights succeeded beyond their wildest expectations, they were swept up in a chain of events that ended in the first mixed-martial arts ban in the nation. “Tough Guys” chronicles the inception of Caliguri and Viola’s first bouts and the colorful, crazy cast of fighters who made them a hit as well as the politicians who brought it all crashing down. The film brings to life a moment when the national martial arts craze was building to a crescendo as the economies of Pennsylvania steel towns were plummeting to levels of unemployment never seen, breeding desperate men looking for a chance to prove their worth and make some money in the ring.
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Henry Roosevelt Regie · W.B. Zullo Regie
Start (Vereinigte Staaten) 15. September 2017 · Produziert in Vereinigte Staaten · Produktion Fictionless und MinusL Productions
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Warrior Poets
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Fictionless
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MinusL Productions
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Vereinigte Staaten
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Englisch
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Vereinigte Staaten · 15. September 2017
TV
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