Step in to a story with a closer look at MMA

Tough Guys is a 2017 documentary film that explores the development of mixed martial arts as a mainstream sporting event in the United States from 1979-1983. 

In 1979, more than a decade before the UFC, CV Productions created a new sport that involved an anything-goes fight league that recruited street fighters, wrestlers, martial artists, boxers and brawlers. 

CV Productions becomes subject to political scrutiny that sparked a chain of events ending in the passage of the Tough Guy Law, Senate Bill 632. 

But while MMA has no shortage of characters, stories, and drama, Dark Side of the Cage by VICE gives a closer look at a cousin of professional wrestling. 

This series cuts through the glamour and glory of the current MMA spectacle to reveal never-before-told stories behind some of its main fighters.