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>From my understanding, the game was practically finished when the change was made. The characters' name tags were made of solid graphics and they didn't have enough space to make up a new one for Boxer.
Really, I'm confused by this. Maybe I'm missing something, but most text in SFII was just, well, text, not images. Obviously made from one typeface sheet. Even if it wasn't—couldn't they just edit it in?… Call the boxer B. Boss or something like this. Instead they juggled 3 bosses' names between them.

> The only thing he has from Joe is the Sobat kick, which he arguably already had in Final Fight when he does the Double Kick.
But, remember when Cody threw rocks in Final Fight? Or when he did Johnny Cage-style dash kicks? Or when he created literal hurricanes with his punch? Me neither. Not even in Mighty Final Fight he ever did this shit.

Compare this to Guy who was left with pretty much all of his Final Fight moveset intact. They even gave him that target combo ffs. But what about Cody? Cody gets all of those savate moves retconned to him from Joe, plus hurricane punch (?…).

> The fact that they turned him into convict after the events of Final Fight was probably more offending.
That too, but they had also changed his personality to Joe's. Frankly, I don't remember Cody being cocky in FF. But Joe WAS cocky in SF1.

> Meanwhile, KOF fucked up the entire Fatal Fury/AOF timeline so they could keep using the same characters every installment without aging them.
KoF timeline has always been ndependent from FF and AoF. For example, Geese is dead in FF but not in KoF. This didn't stop SNK from making Garou, while keeping AoF/FF timeline intact (see Marco/Butt).

From the very inception, KoF was planned as a "dream match" between AoF and FF characters. But Street Fighter wasn't. SNK didn't ruin neither FF nor AoF, they simply made a separate "dream match" timeline with KoF.