Mask
Mask

Mask

November 18, 2015 | 76 min

Charles Lewis founded TapouT in 1997, prompting a whirlwind life that intersected the birth of a sport. Selling TapouT apparel out of the trunk of his car during road trips throughout California, a hot bed of mixed martial arts in the late 1990s, Lewis took on the superhero persona of “Mask" as he donned war paint on his face and wore outlandish comic book outfits. Mask's vision quickly came to represent hardcore aspects of MMA fandom at a time when the sport floundered under political pressure. The history of MMA cannot be told without mentioning Charles “Mask” Lewis, or the era in which he emerged. On March 11, 2009, Lewis was killed by a drunk driver in Newport Beach, Calif. To honor his contributions, the sport's dominant promoter, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), posthumously inducted "Mask" as the first and only non-fighter into the UFC Hall of Fame.

Genres

Documentary

Cast

Naomi Scott

Dan Caldwell

Naomi Scott

Charles Lewis, Jr

Naomi Scott

John McCarthy

Naomi Scott

Eddy Millis

Naomi Scott

Tim Katz

Naomi Scott

Nicolas Walls

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