Watch Tough Guys (2017) Online

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. Read More

Watch Tough Guys online. Featuring Bill Viola and Frank Caliguri, Tough Guys is classified as Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 7.5. It is available for streaming online in the USA on 2 services such as Apple iTunes and Amazon Video. The movie was filmed in United States of America and was released on 2017. Tough Guys was directed by Henry Roosevelt,W.B. Zullo. Read Less