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Interview with Bill Viola Jr. Author of Tough Guys -MMA Book
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Interview with Bill Viola Jr. Author of Tough Guys -MMA Book

May 16, 2018by test

Interview with Bill Viola Jr. Author of Amazon Best Seller ‘Tough Guys’ By Heather Holtschlag |  Oct. 16, 2017 Tough Guys (2017) Kumite Classic Press available on Amazon Why and when did you decide to write Godfathers of MMA? The real story of who invented the sport of MMA in America was in jeopardy of being lost forever....

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Tough Guys Premiere
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Tough Guys Premiere

October 2, 2017by Bill Viola Jr.

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...

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Bill Viola Jr. Author of Tough Guys
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Bill Viola Jr. Author of Tough Guys

September 18, 2017by test

Bill Viola Jr. is an Amazon Best Selling Author #1 Martial Arts book in America (Sept 2017) “Tough Guys”  The book is the inspiration of the critically acclaimed Showtime Television documentary that bares the same name. What do an NFL star, a United States Secret Service Agent, Sylvester Stallone’s bodyguard, and Muhammad Ali’s sparring partner...

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Tough Guys Network Debut Showtime
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Tough Guys Network Debut Showtime

September 8, 2017by Bill Viola Jr.

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?!?

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Tough Guys Showtime

August 29, 2017by Bill Viola Jr.

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...

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