Raymond McCallum vs Harold Scorpion Burrage

Raymond McCallum vs Harold Scorpion Burrage - 1983 ProAm

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The Edge Martial Arts

14 жыл бұрын

1983 ProAm
Raymond McCallum
vs
Harold Scorpion Burrage

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@donwillis7086 26 күн бұрын

McCallum was one of my all time heroes. In my opinion one of the best ever. Love to see him fight, glad we never crossed paths.

@toshiryu 14 жыл бұрын

I was videoing one of Raymond's fights in Houston at the AIKIA National's years back just to be able to study his moves and Joe Lewis asked why I was filming Raymond, he said Raymond was slow for middle weight. I was thinking slow, Raymond isn't slow. This is just another vid to show just how fast he was. Man that guy could fight. Great clip between to great fighters thanks for posting. And I agree with boxing404 nothing close to this today.

@TEXASFENDERBENDER 12 жыл бұрын

For what it's worth Ray won the Ft.Worth-Pro-AM so many consecutive years that it was known as the Ray McCallum-Pro-Am in Texas! The ability to merge the technique of Point fighting with the Power of Full-Contact was his key to great success and left a lot of tough fighters struggling to figure it out.You will not find a more analytical and strategic fighter.

@davidshareefChTPhD Жыл бұрын

He beat a legendary fighter there! And made it look easy

@siliconvalleysam 13 жыл бұрын

McCallum maybe in his prime around this year, lightning fast and exciting fighter, dominated the Texas Karate circuit in late 70's early 80's.

@MixedMartialHelp 10 жыл бұрын

My god, Raymond's agility was out of this world!

@avoice77 13 жыл бұрын

The good ole days. McCallum was great, a colorful character, and he inspired me a lot. Always riding his motorcyle to tournaments. I remember him being a good referee as well, he got me for excessive contact as a green belt once :-)

@Peter-rg4ng 5 ай бұрын

The man was amazing.

@jumpa01 11 жыл бұрын

I remember using those boots when I was like 14 years old they made every surface feel like you were on an ice skating rink Good Job Ray Sincerely Rick McCallum

@eliotquintana9802 Жыл бұрын

Classic martial arts tournament from long ago

@renbarden3989 7 жыл бұрын

I was there. Each of these gents were at the top of the game as it was being played then. The wily winsome "Scorp" was one of a dozen people out there who on the right day could have whipped Ray. It was Ray's day and Scorp, as I remember, was gracious and game.

@boxing404 14 жыл бұрын

great fight great fighters.i dont see anything close to this today.i want to c mccallum vs nasty and mccallum vs vitali.

@jeffcandy2479 2 жыл бұрын

Super impressive

@0300fbi 12 жыл бұрын

I made Black Belt in Sept 74, at 16y/o started winning tournaments right away but also started fighting full contact also. My1st pro fight was a NKL event Dallas Texans vs LAStars Dec '74. I won that 1st fight but lost my next 4 & 3 of those by TKO. I was seriously questioning if this new full was what I really wanted to be doing,but after I matured a little fought some people like H.Jackson 1976, G.Igari Toyko'79, Wallace in 1980, B.Cikatic1981 Ended with a record of 31-13-2, 20KOs ~RMcC~

@TEXASFENDERBENDER 12 жыл бұрын

Hey Kerry Brown here. Thanks for the clarification MR. MC when are you going to upload some of your fights?

@boxing404 12 жыл бұрын

fantastic!!!

@TEXASFENDERBENDER 13 жыл бұрын

@boxing404 Raymond McCallum created some of the highlights of Sport Karate in the 70s and 80s such as his destruction of Gene McComb and gave Bill Wallace one of his toughest throw downs.

@cody6469 6 жыл бұрын

Met him a couple of times about 8 years ago, still pretty flexible from what I remember, but DANG! Boy was good!

@0300fbi 12 жыл бұрын

Sorry I could go on about the calling your own point deal but. I actually just forgot to sign the previous reply to this comment/ This is Raymond McCallum.

@boxing404 13 жыл бұрын

very technical point fight.

@DONTHATETHEPLAYA321 7 жыл бұрын

Damn good

@0300fbi 12 жыл бұрын

I agree the calling your own point drives me crazy as well, but I think that its hard not to sometimes in the heat of the fight. I usually just let the calls go as they go but even though I felt I controlled this fight from the first, between Scorpion timing, & getting behind in the points its hard not to raise your hands after a good technique. I feel thats alot different than after every clash when you are actually trying to influence the judges.

@404boxing 12 жыл бұрын

@achancolon what's up bro.preaching the gospel of karate the way we learned karate in the 70's and 80's anthony.

@boxing404 13 жыл бұрын

@stevevandien i love pointfighting it's beautifull.but i also boxed and kickboxed and it's so much more difficult.it's not pretty but its so much more real than a point fight.i got hurt so much more in full contact,it wasno joke.of course point fighting was more fun and exciting but full contact was the real deal.mccallum was considered the toughest guy in point fighting,in kickboxing he got knocked out about 10 timespoint fighting is fun but not the best way to really test your skills..

@404boxing 12 жыл бұрын

great point fight

@TEXASFENDERBENDER 13 жыл бұрын

@boxing404 cCallum fought full contact at 16-17 against guys 25 and 30 and lost several of his early fights. When he was in the zone he was a force on the mat or in the ring. The only times he was stopped later in his career was when he was not prepared for a fight and that was against dangerous fighters usually world class or champions.

@patkelly5206 8 жыл бұрын

Looks more like a hard game of tag by today's MMA standards.

@waylonnorris7499 8 жыл бұрын

you dont know shit about fighting. ill play tag with you

@renbarden3989 7 жыл бұрын

Pat Kelly, this was before video games, cell phones and the savaging of American society. With the right device you could time travel back to where each of these unpaid combatants would have kicked Conor's butt in this kind of contest or you could fast forward to the so called "art" of our time, where MMA guys master 8 jujitsu moves and train only to shorten an opponent's lifespan one elbow at a time. The current world of MMA is peopled by the thugs these old guys originally trained to defend themselves against.

@karatefighter 14 жыл бұрын

wow

@boxing404 13 жыл бұрын

@stevevandien i dont think its the karate technique that kills it,it's the stopping and starting.i have seen some very exciting fights in point karate but i think the stopping and starting takes something away from it.when i was a kid in the early 80's i used to train in a traditional tae kwon do school and all the fighting was continuous.we did alot of judo and kickboxing in the school.the sparing was full contact.my instructor was old school from the 60's,no nonsense ex marine.next page pls.

@Louisiananews 2 жыл бұрын

I fought Ray in 1980 in dfw ...3 to 0 I had 0 😱 😆

@staninfire1 12 жыл бұрын

Evolution.

@TheUmmahFightCamp 12 жыл бұрын

Hard fighting indeed, but wild! I heard about Ray, but the man is wild and not very polished. Maybe a "good ole boy" by the way he is hooping it up. From Texas that is what you got back then.

@404boxing 13 жыл бұрын

@TEXASFENDERBENDER you preaching to the choir.IM his biggest fan.I was just making a point about pointfighting not ray mccallum.he was a great fighter.