List of removed fighters in EA UFC 4

[Milano3093]

1. Thiago Alves
2. Jake Ellenberger
3. Dong Hyun Kim
4. Pascal Krauss
5. Ryan LaFlare
6. Hyun Gyu Lim
7. Hector Lombard
8. Jordan Mein
9. Mike Pyle
10. Tarec Saffiedine
11. Ben Saunders
12. Matt Serra
13. Tim Boetsch
14. David Branch
15. CB Dollaway
16. Cezar Ferreira
17. Daniel Kelly
18. Thales Leites
19. Elias Theodorou
20. Patrick Cummins
21. Andre Bishop
22. Travis Browne
23. Mirko Cro Cop
24. Isaac Frost
25. Mark Hunt
26. Tim Johnson
27. Ruslan Magomedov
28. Juliana Lima
29. Bec Rawlings
30. Jessica Aguilar
31. Alexandra Albu
32. Alex Chambers
33. Kailin Curran
34. Liz Carmouche
35. Leslie Smith
36. John Moraga
37. Ben Nguyen
38. Dustin Ortiz
39. Sergio Pettis
40. Wilson Reis
41. Justin Scoggins
42. Bryan Carraway
43. Tom Duquesnoy
44. Mitch Gagnon
45. Chris Holdsworth
46. Joe Soto
47. Dennis Bermudez
48. Teruto Ishihara
49. Myles Jury
50. Gray Maynard
51. Chad Mendes
52. Chad Laprise
53. Olivier Aubin-Mercier
54. Will Brooks
55. Gilbert Melendez
56. Sage Northcutt
57. Ross Pearson
58. Abel Trujillo

[mr420_qq]

Re: List of removed fighters in EA UFC 4

Why are you complaining? We have CM punk.

[BigSmoke]

Re: List of removed fighters in EA UFC 4

Absolutely gutted MW/WW of all the lower level fighters. How lovely. The roster has gotten significantly smaller since UFC 2, while the UFC roster in real life gets much larger.

Wouldn't expect anything less from a company that makes games as terrible as EA does.

[Yaari]

Re: List of removed fighters in EA UFC 4

Ouch. Thats a bit hit in some divisions.

[AReifschneider]

Re: List of removed fighters in EA UFC 4

Two of the first five people on that list are retired, one fights in Bare Knuckle FC, and the other two haven't fought in years. Myles Jury is in Bellator, and there's two fictional characters in there too.

I know DJ and Cyborg have survived as "legends" somehow, but how many of these people are actually still signed to UFC?

https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2013/1/29/3928296/ufc-roster-current-list-fighters

Just played the CTRL+F game for myself and found 4: Alexandra Albu, Mitch Gagnon, Teruto Ishihara, Chad Laprise. Of all the things to get mad at, we're going to get mad at UFC 4 not including Ruslan Magomedov after he got a lifetime ban from USADA?

[aholbert32]

Re: List of removed fighters in EA UFC 4

Laprise is retired.
Albu and Ishihara are cut.

Other than Gagnon, everyone on that list is either cut or retired. Still dont know why CM Punk is still in the game.

[AReifschneider]

Re: List of removed fighters in EA UFC 4

Laprise is retired.
Albu and Ishihara are cut.

Other than Gagnon, everyone on that list is either cut or retired. Still dont know why CM Punk is still in the game.

There was a guy who was cut from UFC last year that nobody knew was cut until he announced a fight for Bellator. 40% of that roster is such a moving target because UFC doesn't announce every cut.

I assume the weirder holdover stars like Punk and Cyborg got multi-game deals from EA. The WWE games have had some odd roster mishaps the last few years, and like UFC, the athletes are not in a union to collectively negotiate appearances. Why else would a guy that UFC pushed onto main cards years before he was ready like Greg Hardy not be in their video game?

[aholbert32]

Re: List of removed fighters in EA UFC 4

There was a guy who was cut from UFC last year that nobody knew was cut until he announced a fight for Bellator. 40% of that roster is such a moving target because UFC doesn't announce every cut.

I assume the weirder holdover stars like Punk and Cyborg got multi-game deals from EA. The WWE games have had some odd roster mishaps the last few years, and like UFC, the athletes are not in a union to collectively negotiate appearances. Why else would a guy that UFC pushed onto main cards years before he was ready like Greg Hardy not be in their video game?

Cyborg is there because the UFC still owns her likeness rights and was ok with keeping her in the game as a former champion.

I have no idea either why Hardy isnt in the game.

[AReifschneider]

Re: List of removed fighters in EA UFC 4

Cyborg is there because the UFC still owns her likeness rights and was ok with keeping her in the game as a former champion.

I have no idea either why Hardy isnt in the game.

They can still market Cyborg, even after her contract ran out? That's honestly incredible. I guess we can pencil in her Hall of Fame induction lol

[aholbert32]

Re: List of removed fighters in EA UFC 4

They can still market Cyborg, even after her contract ran out? That's honestly incredible. I guess we can pencil in her Hall of Fame induction lol

LOL. Yep. Technically they can market 99% of former UFC fighters even after they are cut.

[The Senator]

Re: List of removed fighters in EA UFC 4

Seeing Cro Cop on that list just makes me happier that I decided to pass on the game.

[Therebelyell626]

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I get that cuts are cuts they happen. But I just can’t see how EA was okay with losing 25% of their last games roster and saying “well add 17 new fighters and then we’ll just throw fighters we already have into multiple weight classes. That’ll make everyone happy. We can then market it that we have 237 unique fighters, even though there is zero difference in a fighters model or attributes from one weight class to another”. At least in the past when fighters had slots in different weight classes their attributes and perks would differ a bit

[aholbert32]

Re: List of removed fighters in EA UFC 4

I get that cuts are cuts they happen. But I just can’t see how EA was okay with losing 25% of their last games roster and saying “well add 17 new fighters and then we’ll just throw fighters we already have into multiple weight classes. That’ll make everyone happy. We can then market it that we have 237 unique fighters, even though there is zero difference in a fighters model or attributes from one weight class to another”. At least in the past when fighters had slots in different weight classes their attributes and perks would differ a bit

EA's goal isnt to make "everyone happy". The audience they are courting doesnt know who the **** Calvin Kattar, Rob Font and Niko Price are. Their favorites are already in the game.

That **** matters to you and me and we dont matter much to EA.

[Gion]

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EA's goal isnt to make "everyone happy". The audience they are courting doesnt know who the **** Calvin Kattar, Rob Font and Niko Price are. Their favorites are already in the game.

That **** matters to you and me and we dont matter much to EA.

Damn bro EA really damaged you [emoji24] completely understandable, I'd be frustrated watching the direction cater to youtubers instead of lifelong martial arts fans as well. I feel it hurts more that martial arts is being disrespected in this way rather than say soccer

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[Therebelyell626]

Re: List of removed fighters in EA UFC 4

EA's goal isnt to make "everyone happy". The audience they are courting doesnt know who the **** Calvin Kattar, Rob Font and Niko Price are. Their favorites are already in the game.

That **** matters to you and me and we dont matter much to EA.

And the sad thing is, our demographic is not even that hard to please bro. We are asking for minimal effort on their part. 20 new fighters on top of the ones we already got and at least I would have been content. I’m not asking for a top 20 in every division. But when I can’t even replicate 20% of a real life UFC card that’s a problem