The Alaska nobody who punched his way to two world titles.
A look back at the career of Greg Haugen, considered one of boxing's 'tough guys' from the 1980s. Fighting out of Tough Man Contests in Alaska, the undersized Haugen would win all of his matches before transitioning in to the sport of boxing. As an underdog in the majority of his significant bouts, Haugen would make an unlikely rise in becoming a two-time world champion.
Acting
Haugen himself — unpolished, magnetic, no filter.
Direction
Poche lets Alaska's bleak beauty speak for the struggle.
Production
Rare archival footage from forgotten Tough Man era.
Director
Richard Poche
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Haugen's 1987 upset of Hector Camacho was so shocking that Camacho's own mother bet against her son.
Tough Man Contests were briefly a massive cable phenomenon in the 1980s before being banned in most states for safety concerns.
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