The Fistic Scene was a newsletter published by Jim Trunzo in 1993 as a companion to the early computer version of the Title Bout board game called "TKO Boxing" which was distributed by Lance Haffner Games. Although it can best be described as a very primitive adaptation of the board game and lacking in any of the bells and whistles in this iteration of the game, the underlying system and the ratings are pretty much the same.
In the first volume of
The Fistic Scene, Jim Trunzo included the first installment of an article Rating Your Own Fighters. The article originally was going to be in three installments but after all was said and done, there was a fourth installment. While the article in this version of the game "Understanding The Rating Categories" is an excellent overview, I think this much earlier version has insights into the rating system that are useful in the rating process.
There are some caveats. Because TKO Boxing was an early computer version, the rating categories in some instances have other names, the rating ranges of certain categories are different, and some rating categories have been eliminated or modified. While TBCB2.5 also has some additions, they function as embellishments or refinements of the system rather than a drastically different game.
Here is the first installment which I have attached as individual pages in .jpeg format. I'm not a computer maven so when I discovered the .pdf files were too large for the upload program, I decided to attach them this way. In this installment, the significant difference between the two games is that TKO had a Control Factor (CF) range while in TBCB2.5 the range is 1-15. I believe that the CF ranges are adjusted by the computer in TBCB2.5 just as was the case in TKO to insure that one fighter didn't remain in control too long. The other ratings mentioned in this installment which are defense (DEF), Clinching (CL) and Ring Movement (RM) have the same ranges.
The other installments will follow very shortly.