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Originally Posted by John Dewey
Oh. I didn't realize you had a thread called Corinthians. I was referring to the guys in your Tomato Can parade. I will download your work and compare it to mine. I was surprised nobody ever really attempted to rate those pioneers.
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I was doing pre-work for a possible uni In the Bear Garden.
The Prize-Fighters there include some of the swordsmen and cudgel experts that fought for prizes as well as pugilists. When I created them I used templates that Conn Chris shared with me from his Royal Explorers universe. He has zip files of his fighter creations in that thread.
When I was rorking on the Corinthians I utilized a number of sources: Boxiana Vols I, II, and III; Pugilistica Vols I. II, and III; Several editions of Fistana for records, as well as some of the appendices from the Jack Scroggins reprint, Bob Mee, and Tony Gee's works, and other sources.
I'm lucky to have also picked up a scapbook that has an Australian Fistaina listing fights by Australian bare-knucklers. I haven't gotten much beyond 1760 in my fighter creations, but I plan to keep going at some point.
Have a number of projects on my agenda. The continuing parade of TCs, contenders, challengers. I'm also planning to add fighters that appeared in record books, like T.S. Andrews "Ring Battles of the Centuries". The 1924 publication has records for about 200 fighters not yet rated that would have been "names" 85 years ago.
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