Rowland Fleet

Fleet’s corner kept a separate list of what each opponent did after the bell. The list is concerned less with aggression than with habits of attention. It is one of the quieter documents in the collection. He was a close-range worker who looked for moments when the other man’s attention had already moved to the interval. This was less a matter of surprise than of concentration. Fleet’s record is best read alongside his preference for completing an exchange carefully, rather than assuming that an approaching bell had finished it. He regarded attention as something to maintain through an interval’s approach, not merely recover after it.

Recorded style: Body puncher.