>>544039585
A thought I had a long time ago was that you could tell that between FF and AoF (crossovers and connected timelines and whatnot), SNK was struggling to create a good boxer character:
>Michael Max
>Mickey Rogers
>Axel Hawk
>Franco Bash, to an extent (technically a kickboxer IIRC, but he feels way more "boxer"-skewed)
Then they finally struck gold with Rick, great design, top tier, good moveset, all his animations are ahead of the curve... and then he gets put on the Garou backburner along with 99.99% of the cast and then to rub it in he gets ultra-cucked by Vanessa gradually stealing his moves in KOF