04/28/2025
JUST GOT A PHONE 📞 CALL
RAYMOND IS GONE,ONE OF AMERICA’S GREATEST TREASURES OF BLACK BELT FIGHTING , HE WAS BORN TO FIGHT AND ENTERTAIN US.
A HISTORY GENERAL, MEMBER OF THE ELITE BLACK BELT MAGAZINE BLACK BELT HALL OF FAME , WINNER OF THE GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE FORT WORTH PRO- AM A “ A”: RATED KARATE ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE EVENT 10 TIMES IN A ROW , WINNING HUNDREDS OF TOURNAMENTS IN HIS ILLUSTRIOUS CAREER IN BLACK BELT POINT FIGHTING , HE THEN WENT ON TO WIN KICK BOXING EVENTS AND EVENTUALLY WINNING A WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP.
RAYMOND WAS A DIFFERENT TYPE OF SPIRIT.
I KNEW TWO RAYMONDS 🇨🇱TEXAS IS BIGGER THAN LIFE 🇨🇱
THE BAD ASS TEXAS WARRIOR AND THE SWEET TEXAS MAN THAT LOVED HIS SPIRITUAL SIDE.
THREE YEARS AGO I DID A HUGE TRIBUTE TO MIKE STONE , JERRY SMITH AND KAREN EDEN HERDMAN IN HOUSTION, HE WAS THERE FOR THE TEXAS HALL OF FAME CEREMONIES AND STOP BY MY EVENT TO SAY HELLO TO EVERYONE
THE PLACE WAS PACKED AND CROWDED, SO MANY PEOPLE.
I WAS BEING PUSHED BY MY BODYGUARD DOWN THE HALLWAY AND A MAN WITH A CANE STOPPED ME.
LOOKED AT ME AND SAID , “:GARY ARE YOU GOING TO GO BY ME AND NOT SAY HELLO”:
, I LOOKED UP IT WAS RAYMOND , I HONESTLY DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM , WE TALKED FOR A WHILE , REMEMBERING SOME OF THE WARS WE HAD I ADMIT I GOT EMOTIONAL FOR I NEVER BEAT RAYMOND , WE HAD WARS , HE WAS A PURE UNPREDICTABLE TECHNICIAN, HIT YOU WITH EVERYTHING AND ANY TECHNIQUE AND HE COULD BANG TOO
, IT WAS SUPER COOL 😎, WE PRAYED THANKING OUR LORD FOR OUR BLESSINGS AND I THOUGHT IT WAS SO COOL 😎 TO SEE RAYMOND AND HE WOULD PRAY WITH ME..
WE ARE ONLY HERE FOR A MOMENT , SHARE WITH THE ONES YOU ❤️ LOVE ,
TIME IS PRECIOUS
HE WAS ONE OF OUR EARLY TRIBUTES IN DALLAS AND I PERSONALLY WILL MISS HIS ATTITUDE AND FRIENDSHIP.
HE WAS ONE OF THE MANY REASONS I WANTED TO BECOME A TEXAS BASE FIGHTER , I REMEMBER EARLY TEXAS KARATE, EARLY EIGHTIES ,GEORGE MINSHEW WAS MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY GETTING ME READY FOR TEXAS.
RAYMOND SPANKED ME GOOD OUR FIRST FIGHT
5-1 , AFTERWARDS I SHOOK HIS HAND AND SAID “;MR.McCALLUM , SIR , IT WAS A PLEASURE GETTING BEAT BY BY YOU TODAY HOWEVER M AY I SHARE WITH YOU, PLEASE
I DON’T CARE ABOUT TROPHIES , THE ARTICLES, THE FAME , THE REPUTATION OR THE MONEY , THE REASON I WANTED TO COME TO TEXAS🇨🇱 I KNOW I CAN HIT PEOPLE MANY TIMES AND NEVER EVER EVER WORRY ABOUT BEING ARRESTED , AND YOU JUST PROVED IT , YOU KICKED MY BUTT .
I AM GOING TO ENJOY THE PAIN TONIGHT YOU MIGHT HAVE CRACKED MY RIBS FROM THAT SIDEKICK I RAN INTO , HE LAUGHED AND WE WENT OUT AND HAD BREW OR TWO.
BACK THEN ,HE WAS SO COOL
HE WOULD DRIVE UP ON HIS HARLEY TO THE TOURNAMENT
GET HIS GI ON , WARM UP A LITTLE , BEAT THE CRAPP OUT OF EVERYONE ,NORMALLY WIN GRANDS AND THEN RIDE OFF ON HIS HARLEY , HE WAS PURE TEXAS🇨🇱
TYPICAL RAYMOND
EARLY 1997 AND I AM IN ROUNDROCK ,TEXAS🇨🇱 FOR RAYMOND’S NUMBER ONE PROTGE CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT
MR. TIM KIRBY , TIM HAD ASKED ME TO PERFORM.
WERE IN THE LOCKER ROOM
I WALK UP TO RAYMOND AND ASK HIM IF HE COULD MEET THE ADULT BLACKBELT THAT IS GOING FOR GREEK THIS YEAR , FOR ADULT AND MYSELF THE SENIOR GREEK , HE SAID SURE
I HAD TO GO OUT IN THE AUDIENCE TO GET HIM , I REMEMBER WADE WAS SO EXCITED TO MEET THE INCREDIBLE RAYMOND MCCALLUM.
WE WALKED IN THE LOCKER ROOM AND HE WAS BUTT NAKED
HE SHAKES HAND WITH WADE AND WADE ASKED FOR A AUTOGRAPH.
THERE WAS NO PAPER OR PENS AROUND. THEN I FOUND A PEN .
THEN I SAID “ SIGN HIS BOW RAYMOND , HE SAYS BACK I DO BETTER THAT,.
WALKS TO HIS LOCKER GETS A POCKET KNIFE , SITS ON THE BENCH BUTT NAKED AND CARVES OUT HIS NAME ON WADES BO STAFF
THE TEXAS 🇨🇱 G.O.A.T
RAYMOND MCCALLUM R.I.P.
HIGH LIGHTS “ THE KID “
https://youtu.be/-y9aTwVZTck?si=IichSGcFEgPzGcUS
TEXAS 🇨🇱 “ OUTLAW”
https://youtu.be/-G9D2nacdOQ?si=7VOfNDf2wuG91aS3
BILL “SUPERFOOT “ WALLACE VERSES RAYMOND McCALLUM
https://youtu.be/UW_Pqtzvj2U?si=r1yIKGpL6YnNBXIi
GRAND NATIONALS GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP WITH RAYMOND MCCALLUM R.I.P AND HERB JOHNSON R.I.P
https://youtu.be/wx1W0dXysBE?si=QjjUyZwoPOzt1yH-
THE “ LIVE” INTERVIEW THAT HE SHARES ALL
RAYMOND McCALLUM R.I.P
https://youtu.be/ZGg4bVPzEdA?si=ff6zfpMWV5w7AL1x
