Team Kumite Kick’s Parkinson’s Disease @ PIND 5K 8-year-old Rayden Galley, a member of “Team Kumite” (all-star karate team from Pittsburgh) was the top fundraiser at the PIND (Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases) 5K walk/run/kick. Over 600 participants supported the cause held September 4th at Boyce Park in Monroeville. PIND offers a unique twist to...
Tough Guys Premiere on SHOWTIME By Jonathan Guth jguth@heraldstandard.com GREENSBURG — The stars came out on Friday night at The Palace Theatre for a special showing of Showtime’s “Tough Guys” documentary that takes a first-hand look at what Brownsville native Bill Viola, Sr. and Frank Caliguri started 13 years before the first UFC event took...
Friday September 15th 2017 Tough Guys will make its network debut on Showtime network. Learn more about why the Tough Guys were outlawed: Tough Guy Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Senate_Bill_632 Tough Guy Law YINZERS invented MMA? Yinzers invented MMA?!?
Toughs Guys make television history on Showtime Emotional day! In 2007 I set out to share the untold story of the “Tough Guys.” These are the men who created the sport of MMA while Dana White was still in elementary school and 13 years before the UFC existed. A decade later and my book (along...
https://mmahistory.org/boxing-isnt-dead-will-soon/ Is boxing Dead? No, but MMA will be King soon enough… If you ask most people who invented the telephone, chances are the answer would be Alexander Graham Bell. Bell was the first to obtain the legal patent for the invention, and as they say the rest is history. However a quick trip to...
‘Tough Guys’ documentary profiles local creators of MMA Viola, Caliguri WILLIAM WHALEN | Saturday, July 8, 2017, 10:09 p.m. Morgan Spurlock & Company If nice guys finish last, then tough guys almost always come out on top. Renowned local martial arts instructors Frank Caliguri and Bill Viola already believed that, and after more than 35 years, their work came...
Tough Guys Doc Shortly after the exclusive preview run of Godfathers of MMA, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Robert Zullo stumbled upon the Tough Guys exhibit featured at the Heinz History center. Zullo explains, “I couldn’t believe I’d never heard about this story. I was enamored with the time, place and machismo of the whole thing. I just...
Sensei Says “My Sensei gave me the greatest gift anyone could give someone, he believed in me.” -Bill Viola Jr. #senseisays
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