Fight Night Champion Roster and Features Announced, Including Online Gyms

[Steve_OS]

EA is announced the 54 boxers that will step into the ring, for Fight Night Champion. 13 fighters (highlighted in bold) will make their debut in the game.

1. Augustus, Emanuel
2. Calzaghe, Joe
3. Cesar Chavez, Julio
4. Corrales, Diego
5. Cotto, Miguel
6. Donaire, Nonito
7. Foreman, George
8. Frazier, Joe
9. Gamboa, Yuriorkis
10. Guerreo, Robert
11. Hagler, Marvelous Marvin
12. Hatton, Ricky
13. Hearns, Thomas
14. Jones Jr, Roy
15. LaMotta, Jake
16. Lewis, Lennox
17. Chad Dawson
18. Monzon, Carlos
19. Mora, Sergio
20. Morrison, Tommy
21. Mosley, Shane
22. Ortiz, Victor
23. Pacquiao, Manny
24. Pavlik, Kelly
25. Paz, Vinny
26. Robinson, Sugar Ray
27. Taylor, Jermain
28. Tyson, Mike
29. Whitaker, Pernell
30. Wright, Ronald "Winky"
31. De La Hoya, Oscar
32. Holyfield, Evander 33. Hopkins, Bernard
34. Klistchko, Vitali
35. Klistchko, Wladimir
36. Liston, Sonny
37. Sugar Ray Leonard
38. Ali, Muhammad
39. Danny Jacobs
40. Erislandy Lara
41. Roberto Duran
42. Cristobal Arreola
43. Tim Bradley
44. Anthony Mundine
45. Billy Dib
46. Fernando Vargas
47. Kevin Kelley
48. Eddie Chambers
49. David Haye
50. Jesse James Leija
51. Peter Manfredo Jr.
52. Butterbean
53. Zab Judah
54. Kendall Holt

More than just a change to the franchise name, Fight Night Champion takes the boxing experience one giant step forward by delivering an experience never before seen in an EA SPORTS video game. History will be made with this revolutionary iteration that builds upon the best-in-class gameplay and physics engine of Fight Night Round 4, while immersing you in a world of brutality, uncertainty, betrayal, and redemption. Survive the brutal road to redemption with Fight Night Champion.

FEATURES

Full Spectrum Punch Control Control your boxer's punches with precision and accuracy like never before with a new synergy of gameplay controls. From overhand punches to strategic counter jabs and one-punch knockouts, overwhelm your opponents with your refined skill set

Physics-Based Gameplay
Move around the ring and time your attacks with precision. Building off the best-in-class gameplay engine featured in Fight Night Round 4, you now have an even wider range of abilities when it comes to counterattacks, setting up combos, and attacking your opponent.

Legacy Mode
Create your alter ego and put him in the ring against past champions. Work your way up the ranks through training and scheduled bouts, and establish your name as the fighter to beat. Take your boxer online and see how you size up against the best in the world competing for local or worldwide belts in the all-new Fight Night Nation.

Online Gyms
Create an online gym with your friends and battle it out to see who's the ultimate champion, or turn boxing into a team sport and challenge other gyms in Rival Matches to unlock items, win trophies, and more.

Authentic Content
Fight Night Champion showcases the truest graphical representation of the sport, lifestyle, and culture of boxing with authentic and dynamic blood, realistic body damage and deformation, and mature content throughout. Experience the violence and brutality that is true to the trade

[SHAKYR]

Fight Night Champion Roster (EA Producer Brizzo explains)

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The full roster for Fight Night Champion has been revealed, and it’s pretty comprehensive! British legends Joe Calzaghe, Lennox Lewis, and Ricky Hatton have made the cut along side other big names such as Tyson. The best news though is that Erich “Butterbean” Esch is in! The full list is as follows:

1. Augustus, Emanuel
2. Calzaghe, Joe
3. César Chávez, Julio
4. Corrales, Diego
5. Cotto, Miguel
6. Donaire, Nonito
7. Foreman, George
8. Frazier, Joe
9. Gamboa, Yuriorkis
10. Guerreo, Robert
11. Hagler, Marvelous Marvin
12. Hatton, Ricky
13. Hearns, Thomas
14. Jones Jr, Roy
15. LaMotta, Jake
16. Lewis, Lennox
17. Chad Dawson
18. Monzon, Carlos
19. Mora, Sergio
20. Morrison, Tommy
21. Mosley, Shane
22. Ortiz, Victor
23. Pacquiao, Manny
24. Pavlik, Kelly
25. Paz, Vinny
26. Robinson, Sugar Ray
27. Taylor, Jermain
28. Tyson, Mike
29. Whitaker, Pernell
30. Wright, Ronald “Winky”
31. De La Hoya, Oscar
32. Holyfield, Evander
33. Hopkins, Bernard
34. Klistchko, Vitali
35. Klistchko, Wladimir
36. Liston, Sonny
37. Sugar Ray Leonard
38. Ali, Muhammad
39. Danny Jacobs
40. Erislandy Lara
41. Roberto Duran
42. Cristobal Arreola
43. Tim Bradley
44. Anthony Mundine
45. Billy Dib
46. Fernando Vargas
47. Kevin Kelley
48. Eddie Chambers
49. David Haye
50. Jesse James Leija
51. Peter Manfredo Jr.
52. Butterbean
53. Zab Judah
54. Kendall Holt

Source: Eurogamer


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It's that time of year again. You win some, you lose some.

I'm not happy about it either. This is what Fight Night and KO Kings has gone through every year and it's never easy. Contracts are signed with fighters for a certain period of time and when they expire, we can't be certain we'll be able to reach another agreement with any of them.

- Some boxers were signed to deals over 3 years ago when things were pretty different, financially-speaking.

- All of the boxers that we lost were contacted, some of them several times by myself personally.

- I'm not kidding when I say this, sometimes we just don't hear back. Even from people we worked with previously.

- I personally had communications with one boxer - and his three different managers - over the course of 6 months.

- Arturo Gatti died under very suspicious circumstances. Sorry that we weren't able to re-do that contract in the wake of that. We would have signed him for an extra 2 years way back if we had known he was going to die. :roll:

- Some guys we had to drop because of a lawsuit last year, you might recall.

- Sometimes we have have verbal agreements in place with guys we really want and because of time-pressures we spend thousands of dollars making them. Only to have them make further demands, attempt to renegotiate, or simply fail to send us signed paperwork. So poof! They're off the roster and we just burned that money. I can tell you how much Mike looooooves that.

- Some guys just have unrealistic demands.

Now, I know you probably don't care about this. The game doesn't have some of the guys you want, end of story. But like I've been saying for years, its not like boxing is chock-full of stand-up guys accustomed to a strict code of business ethics - nor is it populated by an abundance of athletes with a realistic perception of their brand value and/or mainstream appeal.

NOTE: Some guys are absolutely great. Very professional and very helpful.

All I'm saying is, we try our best and we didn't make the business of professional boxing an absolute clusterf**.

[Chivers688]

Really looking forward to this game

[lamoyou401]

no Floyd Mayweather? *sigh*

[kbmnm247]

Re: Fight Night Champion Roster and Features Announced, Including Online Gyms

no Floyd Mayweather? *sigh*

but now we have butterbean!! and zab judah!!

what a joke

may, williams, martinez, heck even marquez, morales, where are these guys but butterbean, judah, and corralles are in?


cmon EA

[Facts]

David Tua>Butterbean

[JayBee74]

Re: Fight Night Champion Roster and Features Announced, Including Online Gyms

Really looking forward to this game

Certainly are selling it well. My expectations are starting to rise.

[darrenf619]

Really looking forward to this game.

I'm sure people will make very good created versions of fighters not in the game through Fighter Share.

It's a hell of a lot harder to get a lot of these boxers into a game like this because there isn't really an organization that they all can fall under. An example of this is EA Sports MMA as EA was able to get Strikeforce as an organization & have majority of their prominent fighters in game, but Fight Night Champion has to sign many of these fighters on an individual basis to appear in the game if I'm not mistaken.

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[kgbrolic]

Where's Floyd?

[DaveDQ]

Re: Fight Night Champion Roster and Features Announced, Including Online Gyms

I'm interested in online gyms. Maybe they'll have parties like EA MMA did with their fight cards? I hope so.

[statum71]

no Floyd Mayweather? *sigh*

C'mon fellas. By now we all know Floyd wants a aboat load of money plus the game named after him. We should stopp looking for him.

[WizardJay]

so no floyd once again.

[kwas676]

Re: Fight Night Champion Roster and Features Announced, Including Online Gyms

It must get on the guys at ea's nerve when people think they don't put Floyd in on purpose.

[bigsmallwood]

Floyd Mayweather probably wants a huge amount of $$$ and the cover and that is why he is not in the game...just me speculating. Either way it is disappointing that he is not in the game.

[65South]

Re: Fight Night Champion Roster and Features Announced, Including Online Gyms

It must get on the guys at ea's nerve when people think they don't put Floyd in on purpose.

No doubt! If Haseem Rahman (reportedly) said that for the only way for him to be in FNR4 was to be on the cover AND have the game named after him, I can only imagine what Mayweather is asking for.

I think it'd be a bit different if there was one governing body that EA had to pay to get rights to boxers, but I'm not positive that that's the case. Don't quote me, but I believe it is based on compensating the individual boxers. Don't get me wrong...it would be awesome to have Mayweather shipped with the game, but since that seems like a wild dream I'll just do like I did with FNR4 and download a well done CAB version from the share.