Early History

The Twins were born in Belfast, Ireland. To escape sectarian violence, incarceration, serious injury or death the family immigrated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada to be safe, to be free and to pursue their dreams.

Too small for Canada's game of hockey the twins joined a karate club in 1965. They competed in martial art tournaments throughout the US winning their fair share of trophies and on many occasions found themselves fighting each other for first and second place trophies. Paul Moran, who's mother came to Canada on the slave train from the US, took the twins under his wing until a car accident ended his life.

Following this, they left traditional karate and moved on finding Paul Chan, their new Kung-Fu Master at the Hung Luck club in Toronto. The Twins received their Red Sashes some years later and once again decided that if styles were to be changed, re-invented it was time to go out on their own. In 1972 the Twin Dragon Club was founded and it has been "THE TWIN DRAGON WAY" ever since.

Our Club

Twin Dragon Kung-Fu & Kick-Boxing club was established in 1972, named after its founders identical twin brothers Mick & Martin McNamara.

Self- financed, produced and Canadian made we promoted 28 live professional (KB) events producing 6 Canadian World Champions and many other title belt holders. Our Twin Dragon Film production company produced 2 kickboxing CFTO Wide World of Sports Shows, 2 live Pay Per-View shows and 12 TSN shows. We had a Twin Dragon Sport Bar with 10 Twin Dragon Kung-Fu and Kick Boxing schools throughout Ontario.

Twin Dragons and our World (KB) Champions were featured on Show Time, ESPN, HBO and Sky Vision. The Twin Dragons would have evolved into the new sport of MMA to be as big or bigger than the UFC, or at best their major competitor having done it all in Ontario before the UFC was born.

Into The Film Business

Mick and his twin brother Martin started out in the movie business working on other productions, as actors and stuntmen. That pushed the two of them to explore the world of cinema on their own inspiring Mick to write, direct, produce and of course, star in his own films with Martin.

"I hired writers to develop scripts starring Martin and I to suit my budget and both of our charters in real life. Not happy with the time and money I spent in developing 2 scripts. I decided to do it all myself . I had no ambition to produce a big budgeted, star driven film as I was confident I could produce (and self finance) entertaining low budget films. My idea was to use our Twin Dragon Kick Boxing Schools and our televised Twin Dragon Live Kick Boxing events to cross promote our action films."

My first produced film '' Twin Dragon Encounter'' was Canada's first video released martial art movie. It played on Pay-Per-View and was distributed world wide on video.

My second produced film '' Dragon Hunt '' was Canada's first martial art theatrical released film. It played on Pay-Per-View and was distributed world wide on video.

The Big Plan

We came ever so close to the big league, with plans to franchise our Twin Dragon schools and bar globally while cross promoting our Nationally Televised Kickboxing fight events and martial art movies. We spent a lifetime investing our own money and time in building the respected Twin Dragon name. We where totally independent and in full control of our own destiny. Little did we know what was in store for us, our sport and the price we would pay.

Shit Happens

We came ever so close to the big league, with plans to franchise our Twin Dragon schools and bar globally while cross promoting our Nationally Televised Kick Boxing events and martial art movies. We spent a lifetime investing our own money and time in building the respected Twin Dragon name only to have the Gang of Four and other government co-conspirators with malice forethought and unlawful conduct over decades systematically and methodically set out to destroy all our dreams.

This lead us to create our third film, ''Right To Fight'' having no knowledge of the above and with great difficulty this film was finished and premiered. Not happy with the films ending I acting on my suspicions and discovered a government ring combative sport conspiracy against Martin and I and our sport of Kick Boxing. This discovery changed everything about ''THE RIGHT TO FIGHT'' movie and my tuff decision not to sell or distribute this movie, putting everything on hold after I filed a related lawsuit.

I8 years went by in the blink of an eye as I became one David fighting against so many Goliath's causing me to write and produce my new film ''MICK'' Four decades in the making.

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