They should go on the full offensive and try to take out Tekken.
Read the bit about Sea Monsters and Vampires, if we do get such skins / characters, then give us the Venues to go with them.
Would love to fight as Derrick Lewis in the Popeye's parking lot in an open weight fight 64 man tournament for the Undisputed Popeye's Bucket!
You'll totally lose the sim guys though but if your audience is younger folk, some of my best memories on PS2 were WWE backyard fights with some mutant CAFs and friends on the multitap controller... then you could just add more and more venues as DLC, skins, whatever else and do a limited time event and if people don't unlock it, then they can buy it with store credit which isn't real cash.
I'm not even being sarcastic. That's how badly I want new venues.
FNC had so many gyms and locations to fight out of, wouldn't it make sense here too? Especially the basic ones from Career?
Even EA MMA had a wealth of venues from Thailand to Brazil! Stuff like that adds massive variety to the game.