Doug Marcaida Bio, Age, Weight, Height, Facts, Controversies, Net worth, Family Tree, Personal life
For our readers today we have selected one of the popular martial artists from America who displayed their talents on TV screen and earned a great fame a well doing it. The name of the said martial artist is Doug Marcaida who is renowned for his time on the History Channel’s famous show “Forged In fire”.
The man is known to be a threat with his bare hands much less put a deadly bade in his hands which happens to be his specialty. He has exceptional fighting skills in both hand to hand fighting as well as in weaponry. Doug is particularly renowned for his use of weaposn and blades. The passion of this weapon aficionado is evident from the fact that his Instagram account mostly has posts about weapons all the time.
Other than his illustrious career as a reality TV star for a hit TV show, Doug is also a weapons builder who has built some pretty badass blades for US Military and exclusive designs for FOX Knives Italy. He is currently serving his time as a Judge on “forged In Fire” TV series alongside other proficient judges like J. Neilson and David Baker.
Our guide will help you explore near about every possible fact and personal information available at the moment of this celebrity. So sit back and enjoy this joy ride of information.
Real Name:-
Doug Marcaida
Nick Name:-
Doug
Profession:-
Martial Artist
Reality TV star
US Military Contractor
Weapon and blade forger
Nationality:-
American
Physical Stats:-
This portion of the celebrity’s bio will help you get acquainted with the physical attributes of importance that you might want to know.
Doug Marcaida originally hails from Philippines but he has been living in New York for the better part of his life. His personal information like birth date or even birth place has not been revealed by any source up to date. Judging by his appearance, he appears to be someone in their late 40’s. However despite this age, Doug ahs maintained an excellent physique all thanks to his martial arts proficiency and practice that he even maintains toil this day. Doug may be as light as 60 kg and stands as little of a height as 5 feet 8 inches but this has not hindered him in becoming one of the best martial artists in the world.
Personal life:-
For personal life we have carefully selected all the necessary items ranging from date of birth to their family tree that can be of importance to the fans.
Information regarding his career progression is as follows.
- Marcaida first came to limelight when he was chose for the position of being a judge in History Channel’s famous show “Forged In fire”. The show since its airing date has become so popular that it has entered in its 6th
- The role of Marcaida in this show is to determine the quality of weapon made by show’s contesters and their practical application in battle.
- According to Marcaida, the main evaluation of a weapon is its ability to be deployed instantaneously in combat. It should be not only light weight but easily concealable.
- Other than his judgments on show he has also displayed his Filipino martial arts that got people interested. His specialty likes in Southeast Asian style named as Kali. However he perfected it further o create his own fighting style and named it as Marcaida Kali. This fighting style actually contains not only basis from kali style but also many other martial arts as well.
- Doug also happens to hold private seminars all across US and these seminars seem to be always crowded. After getting fame from the show, Doug ahs opened many martial arts school to teach many martial arts students.
- Doug is so proficient in art of making weapons that most of them have been displayed in several movies and TV shows. Few of them are as follows.
- Bourne
- Blade
- 300
- Recently he has been employed by US military as a private weapon contractor.
- He also designs knives for FOX Knives Italy.
- Doug has opened three martial arts schools with two being in New York and one in Romania.
- He has been accredited with the DART (Direct Action Response Theory) Karamabit. This theory is related to designing knives and blades of utmost cut and stealth.
Date of Birth:-
Not known
Birth Place:-
Philippines
Zodiac Sign:-
Not Known
Religion:-
Christina
Facts:-
Few of the amazing facts about life of Doug Marcaida are as follows.
- Doug ahs a secretive past and he has maintained secrecy for better at of his life. Other than the fact that he hails from Philippines no one knows any personal detail about him including his date of birth.
- He is not married that’s for sure but he might have a girlfriend but her identity has been kept private as well.
- Doug also owns his own personal website where he showcases his own designed knives and blades and weapons of sorts. People can buy them from their easily.
- In collaboration with a blade designer named Bastein Bastinelli, Doug has made three new blades which are named as follows.
- Le Piquer (scalpel like blade)
- Mako (a fast opening knife)
- Contrador (a Vicious Blade)
Net worth:-
As of 2018, according to official sources, the net worth of Doug Marcaida falls in between 5 to 8 million dollars. Perhaps it can even be a tad more than that but as always Doug maintains secrecy in this aspect as well. Most of his earnings came from after joining the History Channel’s show “Forged in Fire”. Other than that he has opened many martial arts school and a website for selling his rare designs of weapons. All these sources along with him being a US military contractor he might be earning a pretty hefty payday.
Houses:-
He currently lives in New York but the location of his house has been kept private.
Family Tree:-
There is not single information available about his family whatsoever pother than the info that he was born in Philippines.
Father Name:-
Not known
Mother Name:-
Not known
Siblings:-
Not known
Children:-
Not known
Affairs:-
Not known