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MAT Magazine Issue 1

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<strong>MAT</strong>A’s Pro-Star Martial Arts<br />

World Champion<br />

Keith Vitali<br />

Keith Vitali was one of the top<br />

point fighters of the 1980s and<br />

has been rated as the "#1<br />

Karate Fighter in the USA."<br />

His outstanding number of wins<br />

landed him an honored place in<br />

the Black Belt <strong>Magazine</strong>'s Black<br />

Belt Hall of Fame in 1981. The<br />

magazine also named Master<br />

Vitali as one of the ten best<br />

fighters of all time.<br />

He is also an author of karate<br />

books. His first book, "Beginning<br />

Karate" sold over 30,000<br />

copies. It is used as a textbook<br />

at the University Of South<br />

Carolina.<br />

Faculty Board<br />

World Champion<br />

Ray McCallum<br />

Ray McCallum was one of the<br />

first champions to fight and win<br />

national and world titles in both<br />

point karate and full-contact.<br />

McCallum trained under both<br />

Allen Steen and Demetrius<br />

Havanas.<br />

Fellow Faculty Board Member,<br />

Keith Vitali said McCallum was<br />

the most spectacular fighter of<br />

the day.<br />

Continued...

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