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• Archive: Tony Lopez was born in 1955 and began his martial arts training at the age of 5 in Spain with Judo and Spanish Folk Wrestling.
• At the age of 12 he studied American Folk Wrestling for seven years after moving to America.
• From age 19 to 22, while in college, he participated in Boxing, Kickboxing and Tae Kwon Do training.
• From 1979 to around 1985 he served in the U.S. Army where he was a military hand-to-hand combat instructor while training in the art of Hapkido.
• He continued to compete in Wrestling and Boxing competitions and in 1985 he started training in Russian Sambo, Okinawan Karate and Thai Boxing.