The fight world is bigger, more connected, and more alive. Fighters create rivalries. Gyms create friendships, grudges, and new prospects. Rival promotions build champions, compete for talent, and fight you for their place in the sport.
Rivals brings those systems together. A great fight can ignite a feud, that feud can grow through press conferences and faceoffs, and the final chapter can headline the biggest pay-per-view your promotion has ever run.
Expanded Rivalries
A big fight can now become a big rivalry, and a big rivalry can become a trilogy.
Feuds emerge naturally from the history of your game: a Fight of the Night war, a controversial decision, a press-conference callout, a heated faceoff, a gym defection, or a bad sparring session. You can fuel that bad blood, build the fight, and decide when it is finally time to settle it.
- Rivalries grow from fights, media appearances, faceoffs, and gym drama
- Rivalry heat increases Fight Appeal and creates bigger stakes
- Marketing, press conferences, and weigh-ins help fuel your biggest feuds
- Rivalries cool when ignored, measured by your shows rather than calendar weeks
- Build toward rematches, trilogies, grudge matches, and pay-per-view main events
Rival Promotions
Pound for Pound has much large fight world, and your promotion is no longer feels like the only one shaping it.
Rival promotions run their own rosters, build their own champions, stage their own events, now they pursue the same fighters you want. As your promotion climbs the ranks, you will compete with them week after week for talent, attention, and position in the sport.
- Rival promotions court fighters and attempt to poach from your roster
- Poach fighters from competing promotions and force them to defend their talent
- Contested signings become Signing Wars, resolved in one high-stakes negotiation
- Matching rights give you a chance to keep fighters being pursued by a rival
- Promotion rivalries remember Signing Wars, stolen talent, and head-to-head event weeks
- The new Talent Hub brings free agents, poaching targets, and gym prospects together
Expanded Fight Week Activities
Run the press conference, stage the weigh-in faceoffs, answer questions from the media, and market the fighters, fights, and rivalries you need people to care about. Build anticipation, create stars, and turn the biggest stories in your promotion into fights people cannot miss.
- Hold press conferences where fighters trade words, make callouts, and escalate feuds
- Stage weigh-in faceoffs with staredowns, jawing, and the occasional shove
- Manage media relations by answering reporters with different agendas
- Market a specific fighter, fight, or rivalry through the rebuilt marketing system
- Build Fight Hype and transform promising fighters into real stars
- Graduate to pay-per-view, the biggest stage your promotion can reach
Gyms, Coaches & Scouting
Fighters train at gyms with their own coaches, specialties, teammates, and rival camps. Those relationships affect who they will fight, where new talent emerges, and how rivalries begin throughout the game world.
Scouting has also been rebuilt around gyms. Build relationships with the right camps and you can discover prospects before other promotions do.
- Gyms operate at Local, Regional, and Elite tiers
- Every gym has its own coaches, specialties, roster, and relationships
- Fighters develop teammates they may be reluctant to face
- Gym defections, rival camps, and sparring incidents can ignite new feuds
Also in Rivals
- Multi-division champions can hold titles across multiple weight classes
- Fighter requests now include low-pressure nudges, mutually beneficial deals, and serious demands
- Fighter generation creates a wider range of skills, strengths, and styles
- Fight-engine improvements produce more varied fights and outcomes
- The new HQ gathers important reports from your promotion and the wider fight world
- Important decisions that arise during longer simulations now wait for you when you arrive
- Sponsors now grow alongside your promotion through persistent relationships and reputation
- A new Hall of Fame preserves the careers of the greatest fighters in the sport
- The new Record Book tracks the biggest accomplishments in your game world
- The redesigned Card Builder gives you clearer insight into every matchup
- Every booked bout now receives a true Fight Appeal rating