BM 26.2.1
Ringside 26.2.2
Training and development
- Your gym now works on the newer skills by itself: jab, hooks, footwork, head movement, counters and the rest. Set the training focus and your fighters improve week to week for free.
- The Strategy focus much improved, now covering footwork, feinting and ring movement.
- Conditioning can now be trained, under the Physical focus.
Making fights
- Matchmaking screen improved on player feedback, with a tighter opponent list and proper sorting.
- Style tab: how the two styles actually compare.
- Form tab: the last five fights for both fighters, side by side.
- Rankings tab: where each fighter stands with every sanctioning body and the division.
- Terms now shows your forecast gate and what you stand to make or lose on the night.
Weight divisions
- Champion’s Move is back for saves without the weight pack.
- Weight screens now tell you how long a move takes and why you are being held.
Fight night
- Referees are now more likely to wave a fight off in round one when a fighter is taking punishment.
- The popup on first entry to the fight screen is gone.
Shows and venues
- Main events can be staged anywhere in the world. Showcase shows stay at home, where your fighters sell the tickets.
- The venue list now runs home, then your country, then the world, smallest hall first.
- Taking a fight abroad no longer brings your whole following with you.
- Sixteen South African venues added, FNB Stadium among them.
Your legacy
- New! Moments scrapbook in the Hall of Fame: the nights worth keeping, and your Year in Review.
- New! GOAT tab on every fighter profile. Greatness counts in the division it was won in.
- The news now reports a fighter retiring as champion.
- National flags on world champions and pound for pound in the World of Boxing screen.
Your account and options
- One subscription now covers Boxing Manager and Ringside.
- Restore Purchases now sits in Game Options.
Speed and performance
- Advancing the week is faster, deep saves most of all.
- Fighter profiles open faster.
Fixed
- Better world title scheduling gaps for all world title organisations.
- Fighter ownership confused both ways: a ranked fighter could open as one of yours, letting you re-sign his contract, and your own champion could open as somebody else’s.
- Opponent records on the Record tab were too low: fights from before your career began were left out, so a 20-16-1 opponent read 10-5-1.
- Punch accuracy on the fighter profile showed a fraction of the real number.
- Some iPads would not launch after updating.
- Damage stopped making sense past 35-40 fights, showing a 50+ fight veteran as almost unmarked. Damage already lost cannot be recovered.
- A fight could inherit the previous fight’s title, which led to wrong new champion announcements.
- The post-fight summary never mentioned a belt changing hands.
- A champion defending his own title was told it was a non-title bout.
- Make Fight could show no opponents at all and stay that way.
- Promoters who lost their whole roster never signed anyone again.
- Created fighters ignored the style you picked.
- Checking the stats mid-fight showed you the result before the final bell.
- A fighter who boxed once in a paid division was stuck there for good.
- The lightest divisions stalled: fighters seeded without a record could not be matched.
- Crashes when opening the champions list from the rankings, and while scrolling the show list and your stable.
- The fighter profile always reopened on the first tab.
- Bets went missing when a fight moved week.
- The weight and contract buttons on a fighter’s profile disappeared at random.
- Training could burn potential on a bad week, and a fighter with none left crashed the development screen.
- Opponent names on the matchmaker form rows collapsed into dots.
- Staging a show in a cheaper country paid far more than it should.
- Fighter cards cut the top and bottom off the text.
- A referee stoppage did not pay out on the stoppage bet.