Fighting Man is definitely what it was called originally, with the change to Fighter coming with the upgrade to AD&D. There was also a maximum strength stat that was different based on sex (I think it was 18 for women, 18.50 for men? stats were weird back then). All of this was abandoned by 2e, though to this day you get a certain segment of gaming chuds demanding that female characters get docked from their strength stat in the game about fighting magical dragons.
Fighting Man is definitely what it was called originally, with the change to Fighter coming with the upgrade to AD&D. There was also a maximum strength stat that was different based on sex (I think it was 18 for women, 18.50 for men? stats were weird back then). All of this was abandoned by 2e, though to this day you get a certain segment of gaming chuds demanding that female characters get docked from their strength stat in the game about fighting magical dragons.