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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Tough Guys är en dokumentärfilm från 2017, regisserad av W.B. Zullo. I rollerna ses bland andra Bill Viola, Frank Caliguri, Dann Carr och Jacquet Bazemore.

Med en speltid på 1 timmar och 16 minuter är Tough Guys en produktion från United States of America. Originalspråket är engelska. Hos tittarna har filmen ett snittbetyg på 7.5 av 10 baserat på 2 röster. På Filmotek uppdaterar vi löpande var du kan streama, hyra eller köpa Tough Guys i Sverige.