Lobar Aybock / interview " Originally from User talk : Xwing328 . " To : Xwing328 From : Edward M . Erdelac Hey Xwing328 - Glad you enjoyed the story and thanks for putting so much work into Lobar ' s page ! Only a couple things I noticed ( I probably could ' ve changed these myself , but I didn ' t wanna step on your toes ) - In the first , preamble paragraph , it ' s stated that the Calians were deemed unfit to be stormtroopers due to being red skinned and near human . In Fists Of Ion it ' s not specifically stated what the Empire ' s reasons were for not using Calians . It ' s probable that this was a factor , but the overlarge T ' Syriél were used by S ' kar as stormtroopers without a problem and they were far less human looking than Calians ( see Marvel Star Wars # 53 and the wookiepedia entry on T ' Syriél Stormtroopers ) . I don ' t say this expressly , but my thought was that the Calians were deemed unmanageable because of their independent nature , which did not take easily to stormtrooper indoctrination . Specifically , their ryastraad battle madness couldn ' t be harnessed and made them too unpredictable . Under ' Life As A Shockboxer , ' there is a sentence near the beginning which reads . . . ' Aybock would stay at a hotel relatively close to his shockboxing matches , so that he could run to the arena to get pumped up before the race . ' - The word ' race ' should be changed to ' fight . ' Some behind the scenes stuff I didn ' t put in my blog . . . The name of Lobar ' s Chevin manager / cornerman Eedund Cus comes from a combination of Muhammad Ali ' s real - life boxing cornerman Angelo Dundee and the great Cus D ' amato , who trained Mike Tyson . Lobar ' s Gungan fight doctor Stitchy is named after the UFC cutman Jacob ' Stitch ' Duran . I began Fists Of Ion wanting to expand on Wayne Humfleet ' s concept of shockboxing , which was loosely described in the WEG supplement Heroes and Rogues but never fleshed out ( due to the fate of WEG ) . The best and most resonating representation of a boxing hero to me has always been Stallone ' s Rocky Balboa , so I set out to do a Rocky story in the Star Wars universe . The scene of Lobar running through the streets with all the Rust Rats behind him was the first scene I started with in my head and is a direct translation of the Gonna Fly Now scene in Rocky II . As a further homage to that , ' Lobar Aybock ' is a tuckerization of ' Rocky Balboa . ' The other big inspiration for the story was the real life 1938 Joe Louis - Max Schmeling fight which at the time had huge societal signifigance - a black American went up against an athlete who represented Hitler ' s German Aryan ideal . . . and won . In Star Wars , shockboxing was dominated by Barabels as a Barabel invention ( Lobar alludes to the fact that nobody thinks a Barabel can be beat ) , and nearhumans were certainly considered second class citizens during the reign of the Empire - as it says in the story " not near [ human ] enough . " Lobar was a stand - in for Louis with Tull Raine being a greatly exaagerated Max Schmeling . Anyway , that ' s it . Great job on the article ! It ' s a real thrill to be able to look up your own creations on wookiepedia . Being a fan who has browsed and revised these pages myself I know it ' s all due to a lot of dilligent work . Thanks , Xwing !