However, a boxer who has made the most of his uncomplicated skills of high-energy attack in a career of many ups and a few downs, was not going to give up easily.
Or is it an uncomplicated man with just the skills that the rebels need?
Intermittent auscultation (IA), or listening to and counting the sounds of the fetal heart beat, is a suitable monitoring method for 'low risk' women (well women with uncomplicated pregnancies), and a fundamental midwifery skill.
The presented method for distinguishing statistically meaningful trends should be reasonably uncomplicated for researchers with basic statistics skills and may thus be useful for determining which trends are worth analysing further, for instance with respect to causal factors.
It is hard to remember when an England batsman has exhibited such silky skills executed in as simple and uncomplicated a manner as Joe Root is doing now.
With the temperatures growing colder as the Giants' season grows more desperate, it is likely Fassel will command the offensive coordinator, Sean Payton, to employ a more direct, uncomplicated game plan, one that relies on the skills of running back Tiki Barber with strategic doses of his backfield mate Ron Dayne.
This research indicates that both nurses and physiotherapists with extended skills can successfully manage patients with uncomplicated soft tissue injury, achieving clinical outcomes that are equivalent to routine care by a doctor.
It shows that the assessment of hyperplasia is an uncomplicated evaluation method, and therefore does not require expert skills.
Professional midwives routinely provide antenatal care and health education, and have the requisite technical skills to provide safe birthing services for uncomplicated deliveries, and to recognize and refer patients to obstetricians or other specialists in cases of complications.
While Mexico 70 stands out as a high point for most people, an uncomplicated festival of football with a genuinely high level of skill and entertainment, history will probably not judge what followed in the next three decades too severely.
Rules, as much as possible, should make the game uncomplicated for umpires to call, for players to play and for fans to watch, and they should reward skill.
