Ray McCallum Vs. Herb Johnson

Ray McCallum Vs. Herb Johnson
PKA Full Contact Karate
USA
Middleweight bout with point karate rules.

[@kevingundelach8753]

My instructor fought Ray McCallum once for the Arlington Pro-Am grand and another time in the semifinals championship and lost to him and he had no hard feelings he said Ray McCallum is the real deal, he always puts on a great show whether it was fighting or kickboxing. He still gets out and spars some but I don't think he does his Backflip anymore, I wish I could say I don't do backflips anymore I never could do them.

[@tomg2946]

Ray used a hook kick better than others in all of point karate- even Larry Kelly (who Id put no2 for this in point karate), and Id say even Bill Wallace in Bills point fighting. But Wallace developed his hook kick use to be the best in full contact karate, and Ray and Bill were the top two exponents of this kick in full contact,. The way those three used this kick was much better than competition taekwondo usage or the current wkf usage. For traditional Shotokan usage, almost no one used it, but Terry O Neil and certainly Frank Brennan (both UK) pulled it off (and scoring any other kick than front kick was a big ask with Shotokan refs). My thoughts.

[@mouseboxersclassickickboxing]

I appreciate the insight!