It's got a lot of active boxers on it, i'm gonna get it when it comes out because I'm a boxing fan that misses boxing games and want it to succeed so more come out
It's going to be weird playing a boxing game with Tyson Fury in it. I don't think he was ever in a Fight Night game, his rise came after the series was shelved for UFC.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I wonder how they will animate his herky jerky style
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
they won't be able to. animations in undisputed are garbage
>boxing is dead
Honestly, the sport hasn't been healthier for a long time. Fury/Wilder/Joshua along with memes like Ruiz really invigorated it and newer fighters like Usyk have only increased its value.
>Fury/Wilder/Joshua along with memes like Ruiz really invigorated it >newer fighters like Usyk have only increased its value
The post-Klitschko heavyweight division is doing better but it's not like any of these guys are household names even in the few countries that care about boxing.
5 years ago they could've made big things happen in the sport and rebuilt its image but it's run by incompetent retards who squandered it for short-term gain.
Dude, there will very likely be an undisputed heavyweight champion of the world fight in 2023 between Fury and Usyk, which hasn't happened in boxing since 2000.
The Klitschko brothers were incredible athletes, but they basically killed the sport through their refusal to fight one another and their hoarding of the championship belts between them.
The 3 Fury/Wilder fights alone were better than anything we got in the Klitschko Era.
>there will very likely be an undisputed heavyweight champion of the world fight in 2023 between Fury and Usyk
I've got a bridge to sell you. >The 3 Fury/Wilder fights alone were better than anything we got in the Klitschko Era
They were entertaining but it's not like they were great boxing displays.
Wilder was a can crusher who twice nearly crushed an overrated bigguy4u.
>5 years ago
I agree they definitely fucked things up since 2018/2019. However you have to take into account Coronavirus in 2020/2021/2022 which heavily impeded the sport for obvious reasons.
Now we're back on track for a Fury/Usyk undisputed heavyweight bout, which is a salivating prospect.
Joshua will probably fight Wilder and get killed in the ring by a thunderpunch.
>Coronavirus in 2020/2021/2022 which heavily impeded the sport for obvious reasons
Blaming COVID for the lack of the big fights is a lazy and inaccurate reading of recent boxing history. >Now we're back on track for a Fury/Usyk undisputed heavyweight bout
I'll believe it when they both get in the ring.
It wasn't too long ago that Joshua-Fury was supposedly a done deal. >Joshua will probably fight Wilder and get killed in the ring by a thunderpunch
Joshua is a better boxer than Wilder, personally I'd bet on him to get the decision or a counter-punch TKO in the middle rounds.
>I've got a bridge to sell you.
Joshua isn't involved anymore. Fury/Usyk will definitely happen in 2023. Probably between March and June sometime. Stay tuned for an exact date.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Fury/Usyk will definitely happen in 2023
I give it a 15% chance.
Fury will either demand a ridiculous sum of money or retire again, only to then fight a bum like Mahmoud Charr for a quick payday.
Then he and Joshua will pull a Brook-Khan and get in one last huge payday sometime in 2024 or 2025.
>Blaming COVID for the lack of the big fights is a lazy and inaccurate reading of recent boxing history.
It's a close contact sport where bodily fluids are readily exchanged. Blaming Coronavirus for impeding such a sport is not inaccurate whatsoever.
All spectator sports suffered heavily during the Coronavirus Era.
Lockdowns stopped being a thing once the vaccines and tests were readily available, COVID is only a valid excuse for 2020 and early 2021.
Other spectator sports still made money from television coverage and boxing still held events behind closed doors.
They just put on boring shows.
>Joshua is a better boxer than Wilder
He was. 5 years ago. Ever since Ruiz he has become shaky AF. He now is a bum with a glass jaw. Wilder just needs to land one or two big punches to KO him, easy.
And given how reckless Joshua now is and how little he guards, Wilder landing a hammer or two is almost guaranteed.
I foresee Wilder winning by KO.
imo the Usyk rematch is the best Joshua has ever boxed.
It's just that Usyk was a better boxer and Joshua doesn't react well to getting hit cleanly.
Ruiz is also a pretty good boxer.
Styles make fights.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>COVID is only a valid excuse for 2020 and early 2021.
That's roughly half the period I just mentioned, you fucking idiot. And things began picking up again in 2022 with Joshua fighting Usyk.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Joshua doesn't react well to getting hit cleanly.
Exactly my point. He also is guarding poorly and moving more sluggishly than he used to. He is getting reckless and emotional in fights more and more.
Now, Wilder is a thug. But his punching power is atronomical. Look at the KDs he scored against Fury.
Fury is a big, powerful guy that can take a beating. Joshua has a glass jaw compared to him.
Wilder just needs to land one or two of those hammers against Joshua and it's lights out, game over.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Joshua is a better boxer than Wilder
Without question, but I don't think he has the same kind of drive in him that Wilder does. We've seen that Wilder has dynamite in his hands and even an innocuous looking punch could turn into a KO. Ruiz shook AJ's mental game with his punches and he is no where near Wilder power. All that said, and with AJ being the better boxer and likely favorite, I'd bet on Wilder
I'll also point this out. Wilder can take punishment. Fury rained on him for round after round and he was still standing, albeit weakly.
Joshua is not going to be able to deliver that kind of damage and Wilder is going to go in like a hornet, slugging away until Joshua lets his guard slip and lingers a millisecond too long and gets a hammerblow to the temple.
I predict a brutal KO somewhere between rounds 3-7. And I can honestly see Joshua leaving on a stretcher.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
One final point. Wilder is darkskin and Joshua is lightskin. Nothing brings out the fury in darkskins like an uppity lightskin Black.
Wilder is going to unleash the beast in this fight.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
It's true though, Wilder vs Joshua is going to be like the Rwanda Genocide.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I think Fury had him pegged from the start, he's a bodybuilder not a true boxer
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Yeah. His heart simply is not in the sport. He is not a fighter. He is not a brute. He's a polished, preening prettyboy. He is an athlete, but you need more than athleticism to be a champion, hall of fame boxer.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>He is an athlete, but you need more than athleticism to be a champion, hall of fame boxer.
That reminded me of this
I was thinking EXACTLY of Tyson as I said it. I was thinking exactly of the young boy with a lisp growing up in the concrete jungle of the ghetto and taking revenge on sociopathic hoodrats for beheading his pigeons, just because they could.
This is what makes fighters. Suffering, hardship. Pure natural selection.
Joshua has had none of that. He doesn't have the fire in the belly. He doesn't have the hate.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
he's a roided up pussy gay who got exposed for being a 5 year old child
>Blaming COVID for the lack of the big fights is a lazy and inaccurate reading of recent boxing history.
It's a close contact sport where bodily fluids are readily exchanged. Blaming Coronavirus for impeding such a sport is not inaccurate whatsoever.
All spectator sports suffered heavily during the Coronavirus Era.
>Joshua is a better boxer than Wilder
He was. 5 years ago. Ever since Ruiz he has become shaky AF. He now is a bum with a glass jaw. Wilder just needs to land one or two big punches to KO him, easy.
And given how reckless Joshua now is and how little he guards, Wilder landing a hammer or two is almost guaranteed.
I foresee Wilder winning by KO.
>Joshua is a better boxer than Wilder
Without question, but I don't think he has the same kind of drive in him that Wilder does. We've seen that Wilder has dynamite in his hands and even an innocuous looking punch could turn into a KO. Ruiz shook AJ's mental game with his punches and he is no where near Wilder power. All that said, and with AJ being the better boxer and likely favorite, I'd bet on Wilder
>5 years ago
I agree they definitely fucked things up since 2018/2019. However you have to take into account Coronavirus in 2020/2021/2022 which heavily impeded the sport for obvious reasons.
Now we're back on track for a Fury/Usyk undisputed heavyweight bout, which is a salivating prospect.
Joshua will probably fight Wilder and get killed in the ring by a thunderpunch.
>Fury/Wilder/Joshua along with memes like Ruiz really invigorated it >newer fighters like Usyk have only increased its value
The post-Klitschko heavyweight division is doing better but it's not like any of these guys are household names even in the few countries that care about boxing.
5 years ago they could've made big things happen in the sport and rebuilt its image but it's run by incompetent retards who squandered it for short-term gain.
Dude, there will very likely be an undisputed heavyweight champion of the world fight in 2023 between Fury and Usyk, which hasn't happened in boxing since 2000.
The Klitschko brothers were incredible athletes, but they basically killed the sport through their refusal to fight one another and their hoarding of the championship belts between them.
The 3 Fury/Wilder fights alone were better than anything we got in the Klitschko Era.
>I've got a bridge to sell you.
Joshua isn't involved anymore. Fury/Usyk will definitely happen in 2023. Probably between March and June sometime. Stay tuned for an exact date.
i've only recently got into boxing but this sport is fucking gay. why are there so many divisions? why so many champions? why do the top fighters avoid fighting other top fighters and instead fight 20 random nobodies instead?
i really loved seeing the matches of the Fabulous 4 though
The history of boxing is long and turbulent so nothing you asked can be answered with a short response. If you loved the fab 4, check out gatti vs ward.
I think they still are, the documentary i linked has all the backstory going into the fights which i think add even more to the experience of watching them.
>why do the top fighters avoid fighting other top fighters and instead fight 20 random nobodies instead?
Because boxing is a sport unlike any other. If your fighter has a bad day against someone like Tyson, it can literally end his career through permanent brain damage/injury or even death.
You need to make sure your fighter is on absolute top form both physically and mentally before sending him out against a deadly weapon in human form.
Boxing isn't for the faint of heart. These can be career ending fights. Few want to risk it all when you can fight 10 bums, make almost as much money and add 10 winning notches to your fighting record.
Weight divisions are necessary because weight differences have a big impact. A lot of champions because boxing is decentralized with a bunch of different promotions, unlike mma with UFC. Top fighters duck everyone because they have a ton of leverage to negotiate favorable matchups for themselves, unlike the fighters in the UFC.
>why are there so many divisions?
Fighting isn't like video games and movies. Weight actually really matters in fights. Reach gives a huge advantage in fights. A tall, powerful dude with a large frame will wipe the floor with a smaller dude 99.9 times out of 100.
I say that as a 1.78m 70kg manlet and framelet.
I used to think I could 'take big guys' too when I was young and naive. Go toe-to-toe with one though and you'll be demolished almost every time.
Weight divisions are necessary because weight differences have a big impact. A lot of champions because boxing is decentralized with a bunch of different promotions, unlike mma with UFC. Top fighters duck everyone because they have a ton of leverage to negotiate favorable matchups for themselves, unlike the fighters in the UFC.
do we have to have divisions like "supermiddle" and "juniorwelter" though? it's just 3 kilos
The history of boxing is long and turbulent so nothing you asked can be answered with a short response. If you loved the fab 4, check out gatti vs ward.
>do we have to have divisions like "supermiddle" and "juniorwelter" though? it's just 3 kilos
3 kilos can be the edge that makes a fight a complete slaughter. The weight divisions might not be perfect, but they're based on a long history of observing the differences between guys at different weights slugging it out.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
[...]
do we have to have divisions like "supermiddle" and "juniorwelter" though? it's just 3 kilos
[...]
thanks
Besides, as has been said earlier in the thread... to be perfectly honest with you, absolutely nobody cares about anything below heavyweight and never has.
People want to see behemoths slugging it out. There is no weight limit in heavyweight as long as you pass the minimum weight requirement, you can see dudes with 20kg differences and more battling it out in heavyweight.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>absolutely nobody cares about anything below heavyweight and never has.
Meanwhile in reality Mayweather Canelo and Gervonte Davis have been the biggest names in boxing in recent memory. Get your CTE checked
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Dude... Mayweather is a rare anomaly but even his following and audiences pale in comparison to any heavyweight of even middling renown.
Generally speaking the only people that follow the weights below heavyweight are family members and friends of the fighters and some turbocoping manlets.
I'm exaggerating, but at least be honest and admit few people care about anything but heavyweight.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Those are casuals, you don't care about the opinions of casuals, do you anon?
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>but at least be honest and admit few people care about anything but heavyweight.
I just dont see it.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Latam and Japan love classes under middleweights though >Inoue Naoya
etc.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
I guess. I think that's merely a result of ethnocentrism and fighters from those regions almost never reaching the rank of heavyweight though.
Ruiz is probably the most popular Latin American fighting right now and, lo and behold, he's heavyweight.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Ruiz is probably the most popular Latin American fighting right now
Still Canelo
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Well, you'd know more than me. I've never even heard of Canelo.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Did you see that KSI fight anon >aww no I missed it, but did you hear Inoue is moving up to super bantamweight >...who?
Youtubers are more known for boxing than an actual undisputed undefeated pro boxing champion, hopefully thought it gets even more people watching boxing. I hate talking about football
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
i hate how american sports commentors always pronounce foreign name wrong >Noway Naoya
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Mayweather
45 and no longer active >Canelo
Great Mexican boxers will always have full support from Mexican fans >Davis
If you are a boxing fan you know about this guy and watched his fight last Saturday, if you just watch the 4 major american sports you might not know him.
I love watching the speed and style of the lighter weights but not as many people will watch them, unless they have a gimmick, as they will the heavyweights and thats just the truth of boxing
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Yep. You can count on a single hand the amount of legendary fighters from weights below heavyweight, and they're usually still around middleweight or higher. Who follows bantamweight? Who follows featherweight?
Almost nobody... These lower weights may have their enthusiasts and hobbyists, but by and large they're of little concern or note to the vast majority of boxing fans.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
isnt Manny Pacquiao the most known fighter ever? I remember reading hes as popular as Mario (the video game)
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
He's definitely one of them, along with Mayweather. But how many other lighterweights are there? Almost everyone thinks of Ali, Tyson, Foreman, Lewis, Morrison, Klitschkos etc. etc. when you speak of boxing.
Everyone immediately goes to the heavyweights.
I think I remember Rocky Marciano being my favourite of the in game boxers. Didn't know who he was then, just found the name cool and I think he had high stats.
3 was awesome. 4 was basically just a more polished and expanded 3 but still awesome. Champion was alright. The whole storyline and narrative focus was pretty cringe and pure journobait, though.
I really enjoyed the career mode in Round 2. But don't know how I feel about these stories they put in newer sports games. I feel like they should let you do a lot of stuff, but keep it open, bound to game systems. I mostly just find it fun to make a big guy and see rankings progress.
>I really enjoyed the career mode in Round 2. But don't know how I feel about these stories they put in newer sports games. I feel like they should let you do a lot of stuff, but keep it open, bound to game systems. I mostly just find it fun to make a big guy and see rankings progress.
I really did not like Champion. But 3 and 4 are still well worth a play. 3 is a career mode that has storyline elements to it but its minimal and it actually works really well. 4 is not really storybased at all and is more of a clinical, realist career mode.
Champion you can honestly just give a miss.
3 was awesome. 4 was basically just a more polished and expanded 3 but still awesome. Champion was alright. The whole storyline and narrative focus was pretty cringe and pure journobait, though.
People who say boxing is dead think that just because they don't follow it or don't see it everyday that means its dead, like a baby without object permeance.
A boxing game would be great but, EA and modern boxers would not mix well. They both want every last penny thjey can get. >Boxer:I should get at least a light mill in royalties foe bein in dis game. >EA:No we need profits
Boxer:Naw bro IM OUT PEACE.
>hit your opponent with head butts or elbows around 3 times before getting DQ'd
It was actually a coinflip whether the ref noticed or not. Sometimes if you were lucky you could headbutt an opponent 5 or more times before getting DQ.
I never knew that. Thats pretty cool. I got a headbutt KO win once and never knew why I got the w. Makes sense now.
>get a knockdown >use dick punch button to hit him while he's down
and it was glorious
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>I never knew that. Thats pretty cool.
I think it actually depended on the angle of the ref's vision. Like if he could clearly see you headbutt you got a strike, but if you did it at the right time and angle you'd get away with it.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
interesting.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
lol. you can see sam immediately feel bad. he's always been a good guy.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
>and it was glorious
Also if anyone knows how to fix the way it looks I'd appreciate some help.
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
Can you not play Fight Night 3 on XSX backwards compatibility? Criminal, if so...
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
No idea, don't own one of those anyway
3 weeks ago
Anonymous
If a game has licensed music, the chances are no.
Speaking of which, Round 3's music was absolute kino. Still remember launch night for 360, getting it home, and that music starts playing.
>plaster of paris
watching that cunt use that shit in retrospect on cotto is some brutal dirty shit. glad pacman made him pay and then cotto in the rematch.
>cheating
It really needs to be a bigger feature in all sports games. I remember older football games used to let you dive and handball and stuff.
If you done it well, you'd get away with it and it could win you a penalty or stop a goal and such.
It was always super fun.
Anyone play this online? It’s fucking awful. 90% of fights are either:
>People spamming the straight right power shot >gays constantly backpedaling, rarely throwing any punches and abusing the cheesy counter punch mechanic
I didn't enjoy Champion much at all. I much preferred 3 and 4.
You can tell they blew the budget on their shitty storymode and mocap and voice actors and all that other cancer that comes with 'sports narrative experiences'.
I stopped playing at fight night 4. in 4 the counter punches were so OP I put the same fighter in a multiplayer and literally just punched player 2 non stop for a full round and didn't get a knockdown, you get one good counter shot and you can get a snap KO without a count.
I dunno who the fuck they had making those games after 3 but they sucked at it.
couldn't play this for years and thought it would be amazing. finally got to play it on ps3 emulator. it was the most casual boring shit ever. So disappointed
It's a lesson on never listening to critics. Who thought Champion was some massive improvement over 3 and 4. Simply because it had a shitty storymode and narrative and voiceacting.
>5'6 pilot gets in his A-10 horthog >flying around breathing his own farts >sees Fury,Wilder, Tyson and Usyk in their prime >BRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTT blowing them into tiny pieces of bussy meat >flys home and takes a shit
undisputed is our best bet, boxchads
Wasn't there some other boxing game coming soon that's basically a fight night clone? I thought there were 2
>Wasn't there some other boxing game coming soon that's basically a fight night clone?
Source? Sounds kino...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1451190/Undisputed/
Interesting, thanks!
It's got a lot of active boxers on it, i'm gonna get it when it comes out because I'm a boxing fan that misses boxing games and want it to succeed so more come out
It's going to be weird playing a boxing game with Tyson Fury in it. I don't think he was ever in a Fight Night game, his rise came after the series was shelved for UFC.
I wonder how they will animate his herky jerky style
they won't be able to. animations in undisputed are garbage
I meant besides undisputed. I could've sworn I had 2 boxing games wishlisted but now there's only 1. Maybe they pulled it
Yeah found it, it was called esports boxing club, did they just change the name to undisputed?
looks that way
ah ok, shame that there aren't 2 to compete against one another but still hyped to play it
devs took away the skill of undisputed 2, because I beat a dev with superior movement. Now it's rock em sock em robots.
>EA
>fight night thread
>everyone shills a vaporware indie game that looks like shit
Boxing video games, just like the sport of boxing, are dead.
>boxing is dead
Honestly, the sport hasn't been healthier for a long time. Fury/Wilder/Joshua along with memes like Ruiz really invigorated it and newer fighters like Usyk have only increased its value.
>Fury/Wilder/Joshua along with memes like Ruiz really invigorated it
>newer fighters like Usyk have only increased its value
The post-Klitschko heavyweight division is doing better but it's not like any of these guys are household names even in the few countries that care about boxing.
5 years ago they could've made big things happen in the sport and rebuilt its image but it's run by incompetent retards who squandered it for short-term gain.
Dude, there will very likely be an undisputed heavyweight champion of the world fight in 2023 between Fury and Usyk, which hasn't happened in boxing since 2000.
The Klitschko brothers were incredible athletes, but they basically killed the sport through their refusal to fight one another and their hoarding of the championship belts between them.
The 3 Fury/Wilder fights alone were better than anything we got in the Klitschko Era.
>there will very likely be an undisputed heavyweight champion of the world fight in 2023 between Fury and Usyk
I've got a bridge to sell you.
>The 3 Fury/Wilder fights alone were better than anything we got in the Klitschko Era
They were entertaining but it's not like they were great boxing displays.
Wilder was a can crusher who twice nearly crushed an overrated bigguy4u.
>Coronavirus in 2020/2021/2022 which heavily impeded the sport for obvious reasons
Blaming COVID for the lack of the big fights is a lazy and inaccurate reading of recent boxing history.
>Now we're back on track for a Fury/Usyk undisputed heavyweight bout
I'll believe it when they both get in the ring.
It wasn't too long ago that Joshua-Fury was supposedly a done deal.
>Joshua will probably fight Wilder and get killed in the ring by a thunderpunch
Joshua is a better boxer than Wilder, personally I'd bet on him to get the decision or a counter-punch TKO in the middle rounds.
>I've got a bridge to sell you.
Joshua isn't involved anymore. Fury/Usyk will definitely happen in 2023. Probably between March and June sometime. Stay tuned for an exact date.
>Fury/Usyk will definitely happen in 2023
I give it a 15% chance.
Fury will either demand a ridiculous sum of money or retire again, only to then fight a bum like Mahmoud Charr for a quick payday.
Then he and Joshua will pull a Brook-Khan and get in one last huge payday sometime in 2024 or 2025.
Lockdowns stopped being a thing once the vaccines and tests were readily available, COVID is only a valid excuse for 2020 and early 2021.
Other spectator sports still made money from television coverage and boxing still held events behind closed doors.
They just put on boring shows.
imo the Usyk rematch is the best Joshua has ever boxed.
It's just that Usyk was a better boxer and Joshua doesn't react well to getting hit cleanly.
Ruiz is also a pretty good boxer.
Styles make fights.
>COVID is only a valid excuse for 2020 and early 2021.
That's roughly half the period I just mentioned, you fucking idiot. And things began picking up again in 2022 with Joshua fighting Usyk.
>Joshua doesn't react well to getting hit cleanly.
Exactly my point. He also is guarding poorly and moving more sluggishly than he used to. He is getting reckless and emotional in fights more and more.
Now, Wilder is a thug. But his punching power is atronomical. Look at the KDs he scored against Fury.
Fury is a big, powerful guy that can take a beating. Joshua has a glass jaw compared to him.
Wilder just needs to land one or two of those hammers against Joshua and it's lights out, game over.
I'll also point this out. Wilder can take punishment. Fury rained on him for round after round and he was still standing, albeit weakly.
Joshua is not going to be able to deliver that kind of damage and Wilder is going to go in like a hornet, slugging away until Joshua lets his guard slip and lingers a millisecond too long and gets a hammerblow to the temple.
I predict a brutal KO somewhere between rounds 3-7. And I can honestly see Joshua leaving on a stretcher.
One final point. Wilder is darkskin and Joshua is lightskin. Nothing brings out the fury in darkskins like an uppity lightskin Black.
Wilder is going to unleash the beast in this fight.
It's true though, Wilder vs Joshua is going to be like the Rwanda Genocide.
I think Fury had him pegged from the start, he's a bodybuilder not a true boxer
Yeah. His heart simply is not in the sport. He is not a fighter. He is not a brute. He's a polished, preening prettyboy. He is an athlete, but you need more than athleticism to be a champion, hall of fame boxer.
>He is an athlete, but you need more than athleticism to be a champion, hall of fame boxer.
That reminded me of this
https://youtube.com/shorts/jUBCCwgNd_w?feature=shares
I was thinking EXACTLY of Tyson as I said it. I was thinking exactly of the young boy with a lisp growing up in the concrete jungle of the ghetto and taking revenge on sociopathic hoodrats for beheading his pigeons, just because they could.
This is what makes fighters. Suffering, hardship. Pure natural selection.
Joshua has had none of that. He doesn't have the fire in the belly. He doesn't have the hate.
he's a roided up pussy gay who got exposed for being a 5 year old child
>Blaming COVID for the lack of the big fights is a lazy and inaccurate reading of recent boxing history.
It's a close contact sport where bodily fluids are readily exchanged. Blaming Coronavirus for impeding such a sport is not inaccurate whatsoever.
All spectator sports suffered heavily during the Coronavirus Era.
>Joshua is a better boxer than Wilder
He was. 5 years ago. Ever since Ruiz he has become shaky AF. He now is a bum with a glass jaw. Wilder just needs to land one or two big punches to KO him, easy.
And given how reckless Joshua now is and how little he guards, Wilder landing a hammer or two is almost guaranteed.
I foresee Wilder winning by KO.
>Joshua is a better boxer than Wilder
Without question, but I don't think he has the same kind of drive in him that Wilder does. We've seen that Wilder has dynamite in his hands and even an innocuous looking punch could turn into a KO. Ruiz shook AJ's mental game with his punches and he is no where near Wilder power. All that said, and with AJ being the better boxer and likely favorite, I'd bet on Wilder
>5 years ago
I agree they definitely fucked things up since 2018/2019. However you have to take into account Coronavirus in 2020/2021/2022 which heavily impeded the sport for obvious reasons.
Now we're back on track for a Fury/Usyk undisputed heavyweight bout, which is a salivating prospect.
Joshua will probably fight Wilder and get killed in the ring by a thunderpunch.
i've only recently got into boxing but this sport is fucking gay. why are there so many divisions? why so many champions? why do the top fighters avoid fighting other top fighters and instead fight 20 random nobodies instead?
i really loved seeing the matches of the Fabulous 4 though
>why are there so many divisions?
Because a 130kg 2m tall man haymakering a 60kg 1.65m man would unironically kill him.
The history of boxing is long and turbulent so nothing you asked can be answered with a short response. If you loved the fab 4, check out gatti vs ward.
>gatti vs ward.
Aren't the 3 full fights on youtube? They used to be
I think they still are, the documentary i linked has all the backstory going into the fights which i think add even more to the experience of watching them.
>why do the top fighters avoid fighting other top fighters and instead fight 20 random nobodies instead?
Because boxing is a sport unlike any other. If your fighter has a bad day against someone like Tyson, it can literally end his career through permanent brain damage/injury or even death.
You need to make sure your fighter is on absolute top form both physically and mentally before sending him out against a deadly weapon in human form.
Boxing isn't for the faint of heart. These can be career ending fights. Few want to risk it all when you can fight 10 bums, make almost as much money and add 10 winning notches to your fighting record.
Weight divisions are necessary because weight differences have a big impact. A lot of champions because boxing is decentralized with a bunch of different promotions, unlike mma with UFC. Top fighters duck everyone because they have a ton of leverage to negotiate favorable matchups for themselves, unlike the fighters in the UFC.
>why are there so many divisions?
Fighting isn't like video games and movies. Weight actually really matters in fights. Reach gives a huge advantage in fights. A tall, powerful dude with a large frame will wipe the floor with a smaller dude 99.9 times out of 100.
I say that as a 1.78m 70kg manlet and framelet.
I used to think I could 'take big guys' too when I was young and naive. Go toe-to-toe with one though and you'll be demolished almost every time.
do we have to have divisions like "supermiddle" and "juniorwelter" though? it's just 3 kilos
thanks
>do we have to have divisions like "supermiddle" and "juniorwelter" though? it's just 3 kilos
3 kilos can be the edge that makes a fight a complete slaughter. The weight divisions might not be perfect, but they're based on a long history of observing the differences between guys at different weights slugging it out.
Besides, as has been said earlier in the thread... to be perfectly honest with you, absolutely nobody cares about anything below heavyweight and never has.
People want to see behemoths slugging it out. There is no weight limit in heavyweight as long as you pass the minimum weight requirement, you can see dudes with 20kg differences and more battling it out in heavyweight.
>absolutely nobody cares about anything below heavyweight and never has.
Meanwhile in reality Mayweather Canelo and Gervonte Davis have been the biggest names in boxing in recent memory. Get your CTE checked
Dude... Mayweather is a rare anomaly but even his following and audiences pale in comparison to any heavyweight of even middling renown.
Generally speaking the only people that follow the weights below heavyweight are family members and friends of the fighters and some turbocoping manlets.
I'm exaggerating, but at least be honest and admit few people care about anything but heavyweight.
Those are casuals, you don't care about the opinions of casuals, do you anon?
>but at least be honest and admit few people care about anything but heavyweight.
I just dont see it.
Latam and Japan love classes under middleweights though
>Inoue Naoya
etc.
I guess. I think that's merely a result of ethnocentrism and fighters from those regions almost never reaching the rank of heavyweight though.
Ruiz is probably the most popular Latin American fighting right now and, lo and behold, he's heavyweight.
>Ruiz is probably the most popular Latin American fighting right now
Still Canelo
Well, you'd know more than me. I've never even heard of Canelo.
>Did you see that KSI fight anon
>aww no I missed it, but did you hear Inoue is moving up to super bantamweight
>...who?
Youtubers are more known for boxing than an actual undisputed undefeated pro boxing champion, hopefully thought it gets even more people watching boxing. I hate talking about football
i hate how american sports commentors always pronounce foreign name wrong
>Noway Naoya
>Mayweather
45 and no longer active
>Canelo
Great Mexican boxers will always have full support from Mexican fans
>Davis
If you are a boxing fan you know about this guy and watched his fight last Saturday, if you just watch the 4 major american sports you might not know him.
I love watching the speed and style of the lighter weights but not as many people will watch them, unless they have a gimmick, as they will the heavyweights and thats just the truth of boxing
Yep. You can count on a single hand the amount of legendary fighters from weights below heavyweight, and they're usually still around middleweight or higher. Who follows bantamweight? Who follows featherweight?
Almost nobody... These lower weights may have their enthusiasts and hobbyists, but by and large they're of little concern or note to the vast majority of boxing fans.
isnt Manny Pacquiao the most known fighter ever? I remember reading hes as popular as Mario (the video game)
He's definitely one of them, along with Mayweather. But how many other lighterweights are there? Almost everyone thinks of Ali, Tyson, Foreman, Lewis, Morrison, Klitschkos etc. etc. when you speak of boxing.
Everyone immediately goes to the heavyweights.
Which is why I can't wait to see Usyk vs Fury
>just like the sport of boxing, are dead
I had Fight Night Round 2. Were any of the others good? Really enjoyed 2.
Who did you like using the most? I liked afro thunder
I think I remember Rocky Marciano being my favourite of the in game boxers. Didn't know who he was then, just found the name cool and I think he had high stats.
I really enjoyed the career mode in Round 2. But don't know how I feel about these stories they put in newer sports games. I feel like they should let you do a lot of stuff, but keep it open, bound to game systems. I mostly just find it fun to make a big guy and see rankings progress.
>I really enjoyed the career mode in Round 2. But don't know how I feel about these stories they put in newer sports games. I feel like they should let you do a lot of stuff, but keep it open, bound to game systems. I mostly just find it fun to make a big guy and see rankings progress.
I really did not like Champion. But 3 and 4 are still well worth a play. 3 is a career mode that has storyline elements to it but its minimal and it actually works really well. 4 is not really storybased at all and is more of a clinical, realist career mode.
Champion you can honestly just give a miss.
3 was awesome. 4 was basically just a more polished and expanded 3 but still awesome. Champion was alright. The whole storyline and narrative focus was pretty cringe and pure journobait, though.
fight night round 3 for psp is what I like the most
People who say boxing is dead think that just because they don't follow it or don't see it everyday that means its dead, like a baby without object permeance.
It's in a healthier position than it has been for decades.
Boxing is at it's best when the heavyweights are exciting.
Can't wait for Fury vs. Wilder MDXVIII
A boxing game would be great but, EA and modern boxers would not mix well. They both want every last penny thjey can get.
>Boxer:I should get at least a light mill in royalties foe bein in dis game.
>EA:No we need profits
Boxer:Naw bro IM OUT PEACE.
This is the only way it would go down.
You think they'd ever make a boxing game with a "corrupt" career option
would be funny
so many rat fucks in the fight industry. Commissions are bribed and look the other way on dirty gloves, judges. you name it.
Couldn't you do that in Champion? I thought there was some option to 'take a dive' or something at some point in the story.
I stopped playing after FN3 but, yeah you could take dives and hit your opponent with head butts or elbows around 3 times before getting DQ'd
>hit your opponent with head butts or elbows around 3 times before getting DQ'd
It was actually a coinflip whether the ref noticed or not. Sometimes if you were lucky you could headbutt an opponent 5 or more times before getting DQ.
I never knew that. Thats pretty cool. I got a headbutt KO win once and never knew why I got the w. Makes sense now.
and it was glorious
>I never knew that. Thats pretty cool.
I think it actually depended on the angle of the ref's vision. Like if he could clearly see you headbutt you got a strike, but if you did it at the right time and angle you'd get away with it.
interesting.
lol. you can see sam immediately feel bad. he's always been a good guy.
>and it was glorious
Also if anyone knows how to fix the way it looks I'd appreciate some help.
Can you not play Fight Night 3 on XSX backwards compatibility? Criminal, if so...
No idea, don't own one of those anyway
If a game has licensed music, the chances are no.
Speaking of which, Round 3's music was absolute kino. Still remember launch night for 360, getting it home, and that music starts playing.
It was also such an easy and pleasurable 1000g.
>get a knockdown
>use dick punch button to hit him while he's down
Maybe you could put some egg weights in the gloves too or plaster of paris
>plaster of paris
watching that cunt use that shit in retrospect on cotto is some brutal dirty shit. glad pacman made him pay and then cotto in the rematch.
In a game it would be great lol
>cheating
It really needs to be a bigger feature in all sports games. I remember older football games used to let you dive and handball and stuff.
If you done it well, you'd get away with it and it could win you a penalty or stop a goal and such.
It was always super fun.
The HBO faceoff between them before the second fight is pic related
Anyone play this online? It’s fucking awful. 90% of fights are either:
>People spamming the straight right power shot
>gays constantly backpedaling, rarely throwing any punches and abusing the cheesy counter punch mechanic
I didn't enjoy Champion much at all. I much preferred 3 and 4.
You can tell they blew the budget on their shitty storymode and mocap and voice actors and all that other cancer that comes with 'sports narrative experiences'.
I stopped playing at fight night 4. in 4 the counter punches were so OP I put the same fighter in a multiplayer and literally just punched player 2 non stop for a full round and didn't get a knockdown, you get one good counter shot and you can get a snap KO without a count.
I dunno who the fuck they had making those games after 3 but they sucked at it.
it was so that casuals could get a lucky win against the best players.
couldn't play this for years and thought it would be amazing. finally got to play it on ps3 emulator. it was the most casual boring shit ever. So disappointed
It's a lesson on never listening to critics. Who thought Champion was some massive improvement over 3 and 4. Simply because it had a shitty storymode and narrative and voiceacting.
The title of baddest man on the planet, was, is, and will always be the current heavyweight boxing champion
Weightlets will never admit it, but it's true.
>5'6 pilot gets in his A-10 horthog
>flying around breathing his own farts
>sees Fury,Wilder, Tyson and Usyk in their prime
>BRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTT blowing them into tiny pieces of bussy meat
>flys home and takes a shit
No offense salame sams