That's one of the things that make examining records interesting. In the case of fighters we have never seen interpretation becomes an issue. The records present a hermeneutical problem, and we have to make explicit what is implicit in the record. It is easier to do this with British records than with US records of the Fleischer era. Nat Fleischer is praiseworthy for many things, but his insistance that there was no such thing as a TKO has made that task harder. The rsf and ret distinctions qualify the type of KO and reveal more about a fighter.
Bear
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Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS
That is a great point and one that I often overlook in rating fighters. A few of the CT HW stiffs that I rated made trips to Europe to serve as cannon fodder. What I did not consider was that they obviously didn't fly on their own dime which means they must have shown something to someone. Still stiffs to be sure, but perhaps a cut above run-of-the-mill stiffdom.
I need to go back and look at a few of them.
Christopher
edit - I thought Billy Tisdale might have been one, but I checked and it wasn't him.
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