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The book is a noted MMA resource and historical reference for early competition. Tough Guys documents mixed martial arts in the late 1970s-1980s. In 1979, Bill Viola Sr. and Frank
Caliguri established CV Productions Inc. and created a new sport that combined martial arts, boxing, wrestling, jujutsu
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which outlawed mixed martial arts in 1983. Tough Guys documents the sports early history and legal issues with the
Pennsylvania State Legislature and Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission. It concludes with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania outlawing mixed martial arts.
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The book was updated and rebranded as Tough Guys (2017) and published the same day as the network television debut of Tough Guys on
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Tough Guys chronicles mixed martial arts a decade before the term became popular or the
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) was created. It details the Toughman (boxing) vs Tough Guy (MMA) controversy, the death of Ronald Miller and the
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and various forms of combat sports. The “anything goes” Tough Guy
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