Ray McCallum • Highlight
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- In the late 70’s and early 80’s, Raymond McCallum and I (Keith Vitali) were the top two nationally-rated point-fighters in the US. While I barely maintained the top position, everyone knew on any given Saturday, Raymond could defeat anyone with his incredible versatile style of fighting.
Raymond McCallum was the most spectacular fighter on our circuit; much more exciting to watch than any of the rest of us. All of the top fighters would stand by his ring every chance we got just to watch him execute some incredible move that would have all of us, his own peers, literally going wild over. It was only moments later that the reality would set in; that one of us would have to fight him that day.
I personally saw Raymond McCallum execute 3 different moves while fighting in one major tournament that I truly believe have never been attempt by another in tournament fighting. He was incredibly electric in the ring and I was one of his greatest fans.
Raymond actually made me a better fighter by forcing me to adapt; train much harder just to stay on top. It was Raymond who visited my studio in Atlanta to teach me advanced sweeps and take downs that soon I was incorporating into my own fighting regime.
another beautiful fighter that no one talks about. thank you
Loved Ray. Good kickboxer, great point fighter. Terrific kicker and full of Texas balls.
stvevandien310, McCallum was one of the guys of this era who who started out in point fighting. He along with some others of this era felt there was a 'bullshido element in point fighting. The point fighting had that element of one fast shot of 'tag your it'. Every once in a while Ray and others like him would lose a point tournament. Guys like McCallum said fuxck that lets get it on and see who's left standing. I was around this culture in the late 70's to late 80's. They were right the one punch kill shot theory in point fighting was' bullshido. And they proved it. I'll note that many point fighters such as Norris never transitioned to full contact. Hardcore guys like Ray did.
Best years of kickboxing!💯💯💯🇪🇪🙏
I wish I’d have been around to watch this man live, how fun must it have been. What a creative fighter, and with serious guts too
He's still very well alive and happens to be one of my teachers, father figure and best friends at this point.
@@joshlee2853 that's great to hear man. But what I meant by live was that id love to have watched him fight in person as the fights took place, as live fights are much more intense as we don't know what's gonna happen
I saw Ray fight many many times in full contact and point karate back in the 70s and early 80s. He got his black belt from Demetrius Havanas (the "Greek") and Greek always had very short and powerful sidekicks which Ray had as did Billye Jackson. They were all from the same stable, as were a bunch of other bad asses back then.
Thanks for posting these. Trained under Longstreet in Mpls, so I saw Ray live several times. Always got the audience going. From point fighting to full contact, his timing was incredible. Those side kicks were brutal!
Man, McCallum was all-around... he’s hitting these guys with everything...! And he’s counter-punching them out cold after being hit hard! All I can say is this guy took his vitamins...! I had heard of him but didn’t expect this kind of skill and power. This guy is for real with old-school skills and KO power. They must eat raw meat in Texas...
Saw him fight in Vegas. Don't remember who he fought but he did knock him out. One of the things I remember is my dad and I laughing because we had never seen anyone enter a ring so completely relaxed. It just another boring day at the office, until the bell rang and then he just exploded!
I remember this old school great fighter! Although I had only seen him fight a few times, I clearly remember being very impressed with his excellent kicking ability, really good power in his punching, being tough as nails with really good speed and timing. And yes, he won each fight I saw.
Man’s got Guile’s pants on.
Ray and Keith were two of the best to ever do it!!!! I truly miss full contact karate. I'd love to see it come back
Karate combat
Jean yves
@@ajaltonwilliams1986 Jean Yves was one of the best as well
Totally agree. I don't like UFC like I liked this stuff because there's too much time spent on the floor which is boring to me.
This was definitely a great era for American martial arts. I was a little too young to appreciate it at the time, but in hindsight, it was amazing. I was I could go back to 80s and train and compete.
Impresionante habil,aguerrido ! nunca vi 1 luchador asi !!!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙏🏽
Very fun to watch fights, especially 1:11.
Love knockouts that happen right in the middle of a heated exchange
I love this channel
I remember those days.Ray had beautiful ,(& lethal ) technique & an Olympic level backflip, much like the Jet.
Ray maccallun vs Bill Wallace ..Great fight!!!
Great video, love the soundtrack
Good music and video.
Ray ur one of a kind.love u.
Man, he could fight technically or brawl. Great fighter.
_You_ are Keith Vitali!? Holy shit, I had no idea. Big fan
For the first time in my life I saw such double side kicks in real life. And I thought I had seen everything.
That's a bad man right there
Way back in the day when I was a young fella, he came to our place and did a seminar. I got to go against him and even though I was way taller and bigger and super fast, luckily he took it easy on me. I had forgotten about that back flip that he did.
I have a similar story, memories are great!
Resl Full Contact Fighter......Nice Clip
Les combattants des années 80 cherchaient à donner des coups hauts et spectaculaires c'est pourquoi ils travaillaient bien leur souplesse ...
Eine Legende
Legend
Non of today's face sitting boring MMA fighters have the talent and charisma of these guys.
@@soundlogic6353 No.
Ray McCallum a Bad Ass Fighter !
0:14 😄 funny
The best part is the Synthwave
Good stuff
Impressive
One tough s.o.b and one hell of a fighter.
Old school martial art's,flexibility,super foot techink
Combattant complet!!! Pieds poings timing!
Dude makes me want to throw kicks and do backflips
Texas balls with immense martial art skills.
Nice kicking technique
At 1:15 why there's a chair inside the ring while someone is fighting?
السلام. الفن الجميل
благодарим за видео..крутой боец..
You should be a dJ
O cara e um demolidor
What’s name of the tune
Better tham the movies
This is Savate?
Is it good or bad to be on someone's highlight reel?
Music??
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After 1:47...if that was me..."ok fuck it you win".
Qui connaît Pierre Carillo ?il avait gagné Rob KAHMAN .je recherche he de vidéo de ce fighter?
Merci d'avance à la personne qui pourras m'aider.
Song?
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@@karimkondua1736 damn it but thanks g
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You know, he didn't throw half-assed semi-front round kicks until he met the MKR and could then go in swinging like a crappy boxer.
Not hardly. Beautiful kicking technique. Great high sidekick in particular. And the dude also used his hands like nobody's biz.
Looks like a tuff drunk Gymnast with a side kick.
2:41 lol fuck!
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1:47 Bruce Lee KungFu
Le karate a l ancienne...on en voit plus...
guess he was a better puncher than kicker. Oh well whatever wins.
Ray was a good fighter but very racist.
Não tem chute potente!
Not great at boxing but tremendous with kicks
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