Boxing Manager

Small performance fix and product page update.

Small training fix.

More realism than ever in our huge new update!!! * Mandatory Challengers Revamped: Each organisation now selects challengers differently, factoring in rankings, money, and influence. * Rematches are here: Get that shot back at the title with auto rematches. * Vacant Titles: Interim champions are promoted, new mandatory challengers are created, and immediate defences are scheduled. * Ranking Changes: World champions are no longer ranked by other organisations. * Realistic Scheduling: Popular fighters now fight less often, reflecting real-world boxing. * Sanctioning Fees: Managers and promoters now pay fees for title fights; unified bouts accumulate multiple fees. * Weekly Title News: New in-game news keeps you updated on title changes. * Improved Fight Negotiations: Champions and managers now contact you for title bouts, rematches, and voluntary defences. * Response System: All title opportunities and defence requests appear in the new Response screen. * Champion Advantage: Champions can more easily create fights, promote shows, and are approached for unification bouts. * Be like Bud. Retire at the top!: Managers now have greater input when it comes to fighter retirements. Help your guy retire at the top of the game! * Signing fighters is now less restrictive and more encouraging than ever. Your title record still influences who signs with you but boxing talent will now sign based on your win record. The more wins you achieve the better the fighters will be willing to join your gym. * New Flyweight Rankings & Titles: We’ve finally added ‘Light/Junior’ Flyweight rankings and titles, bringing more depth and competition to your gameplay! * Enhanced Ageing Process: Enjoy a more realistic experience as fighters attributes such age slower and more realistically. This results in keeping their skills longer, with less severe declines in background and performance. * UX/UI improvements. * Improved Financial Model: We’ve adjusted show ticket totals to ensure a more accurate and challenging financial experience for each event. * Updated Game Start Date: Mark your calendars for 2026! Dive into the future with our updated game start date. * Amateur bug fixes! - A vast number of amateur bugs and fixes have been implemented * Fixed loads of old game bugs including the legendary judge 1 score repeat bug!!! * Show finance fixes. Accurate TV and fight finances. * Show posters now fixed to work by default on all shows.

* Fixed rematch clause issue that occurs when both fighter within the clause are managed. Title fights where both fighters are managed do not have rematches. * Fixed rematch clauses getting stuck in an advance game loop. * Fixed fight delete in game options destroying title integrity. * Fixed weight move causing title issues. * Added title health checks to ensure title integrity in case of game exit/crash. * Fixed game options (currency/date format) persistence across sessions. * Fixed medal crash in Hall of Fame. * Fixed cross-weight potential for title fights. * Fixed issue with Junior/Light Flyweights not being created in existing saves. This will be fixed in first advance game in your session. * Fixed amateur ranking view crash. * Fixed old age fighters. These old timers will rapidly retire in game over coming game weeks.

Title Engine - Fix for title stripping when title first won.

- Show engine fix for main event PPV bug introduced previously.

- Fixed duplicate regional title issue. This runs in background when advancing game. - Fixed issue with main event Shows whereby venue cut of ticket revenues was being taken 2-3x resulting in significantly lower profits. - Fixed issue whereby fights with mandatory challengers could be made. This was resulting in fights being removed from cards without warning. - Mandatory fighter selection modified to fix issues. - Fixed issue whereby fights would be removed from cards without warning when a fighter on card is designated as a mandatory challenger subsequent to the fight being made.

- Fixed issue whereby when rankings were updated, a title could be stripped from a champion due to a duplicate champion being created. This major bug has caused issues with game stability, and we believe that the fix will resolve many downstream game world issues.

- Fixed issue whereby a champion could not offer a single fight to a fighter who is designated as a mandatory challenger for any organisation. - Fixed issue where if a fighter left company after court action the promoter name and gym slots were not updated. - Fixed show finance display issue whereby showcase labels were incorrectly displayed in finance screen when a main event.

- Fixed forced title vacation bug occurring upon winning title via vacant title route. - Fixed issue where fighter retirement did not immediately vacate titles. - Fixed issue which added title win to fighter record on becoming interim champion through vacant title. - Fixed show finances display which doubled counted gate revenues that are paid weekly not at end of show. This was a display issue only and not related to show finances themselves. - Fixed show finances display for consistency with in game TV revenues. This was a display issue only and not related to show finances themselves. - Fixed show finance TV deal percentage to match in game percentages.

- Fixed issue whereby a crash could occur in some instances when signing a new fighter to a contract.

- Fixed issue with weight mismatches occurring in titles. - Fixed dual title holder issue. - Fixed issue with regional titles not vacating on champion becoming world champion in all instances. - Fixed situation whereby weights become over time heavily under or over populated. - Fixed stale titles with fights not being scheduled correctly.

* We’ve resolved the crash that occurred when signing fighters with a scheduled fight. * We’ve also fixed a bug where an NPC champion with a rematch clause might sometimes take a voluntary defence and not honour the rematch agreement. * We’ve also fixed a bug where a managed fight might end up on a non-existent show and games won’t progress. * We’ve also made some fixes for games that had a double fight booking issue from an old save.

* Removed Manager IP from fighter Potential. This now uses XP as per all other attributes. * Fixed (we hope) the empty show bug and advance game loop. * Fixed title vacation issue that could not set up vacant title correctly. * Fixed title management issues when using duplicate champion fix. Duplicate champions now managed automatically.

* Fixed an issue where a challenger who beat the champion in a voluntary/non-mandatory defence as the new champion inherits the old expired deadline and was stripped the following week if old deadline was not updated correctly. * Fixed issue with incorrect weight change forcing movement of title. * Fixed issue that caused a rare issue whereby large negative values were created due to show finance issue. These balances are now reset to the previous positive amount. * Small title optimisations and adjustments

* Light Flyweight fighters are now fighting. * The roster screen no longer crashes. * Retirement logic has been improved to exclude auto-retirement for older managed fighters. * A warning is now displayed when a manual fighter retirement is attempted, showing the cost to the manager. * Negative balances are now reset. * The incorrect inflated guaranteed fee for affected fighters has been corrected to prevent negative show balances.

Title engine fixes for quick title vacations and missing fights in record. This will prevent future instances.

* Main event shows are now easier to profit from as all fights on the card contribute to ticket and sales revenue. * The rematch process has been updated for greater realism and enjoyment. * The issue of mandatory challengers and some fights disappearing with titles becoming immediately vacant has been resolved.

Title engine - Fighters can no longer be mandatory challenger for more than one belt at a time. This removes the gameplay bottleneck and tedium caused by one fighter being mandatory across all titles. - Fixed first week title vacation due to a data issue. Game engine - Fixed/improved/simplified PPV calculations. Player cut now 9pc of gross PPV. No more costs killings your share of the PPV loot. - Azerbaijan, Cayman Islands, and Hong Kong naming issues fixed.

The biggest Boxing Manager update in years! Brand new fight engine (our first in over a decade) - More boxing realism - More punch, damage, finish and action precision - Incredible punch by punch comparison with real-world fight statistics - Provenly the most accurate fight simulation anywhere ever - Two brand new fight screens and broadcast modes. Ring mode and “classic”. Share your fighters and shows!!! - Share your show poster! Our new poster templates make creating customisable posters for your upcoming bill a breeze. Simply share them wherever you like! - Share fight results and post it to Instagram or Facebook Stories, Discord, Messages, anywhere! - Share fighter cards — a proper trading card for any fighter you manage or have managed: honours, ratings, division, hometown. Tap Share on the fighter screen. - Fighter photos — add your own picture for each fighter (there's a prompt you can copy if you'd rather generate one). It shows on their Overview and beside the verdict on the result screen. - Record the fight — hit REC during a broadcast fight to save, edit, create and share your promotion’s fight content. - Follow #boxingmanager — Discord, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube links added to the Community screen. Other highlights: - 10 new visible fighter attributes - Better fighter progression when developing a career - Improved UI for many screens - Improved dashboard - Improved matchmaking screens - New improved fighter dashboard - Improved venue dashboard and management Ringside subscription now in Boxing Manager! - Get all our subscription only features inside Boxing Manager! - Ringside subscribers can now also use their subscription inside Boxing Manager. Quite frankly, there’s almost too much to mention, so take a look instead!

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.

Stability - Fixed a crash when scrolling through your stable or the matchmaker’s opponent list. - Fixed a crash on the Hall of Fame and fighter profile cards. - Fixed a crash when confirming a fight for a fighter with a short contract. - If your save data can’t be opened, the game now explains the issue instead of refusing to start. Money - Title fights booked from offers now pay your fighter their proper share of the gate. - XP purchases now always arrive. Some players paid and received nothing. If that was you, contact us and we’ll sort it out. - Away fights’ crowds were being discounted twice. Foreign gates and ticket forecasts are now functioning correctly. - The venue screen now checks your actual bank balance, removing the “can’t afford” message for venues you could afford. - Booking a venue for a card with fewer than six fights now warns you that the networks won’t broadcast it before you pay the site fee. Shows & Matchmaking - The create-show screen displays venues again, the search function actually works, and a show can no longer be created without a stadium. - Adding a world-title fight to a show: if none of your shows are far enough out for the build-up, the game now informs you instead of leaving you with a blank page. Ringside subscription - A bad connection no longer signs you out of your subscription. If Ringside ever says you’re not a member, don’t reinstall your careers live on this device. Close and reopen the app instead. Managers & Rosters & GOAT - Losses no longer impact your manager rating five times as severely as wins raise it. It can’t fall below zero and ratings already damaged heal themselves upon loading. - GOAT scores now update correctly.

In the corner - Your corner will no longer throw in the towel on a fighter who is clearly winning, unless he is badly hurt or has just been dropped. - No more retirements in the opening round for a fighter who isn't badly hurt. - The towel is now offered to you at the same point your opponent's corner would act. A smaller fighter used to have to absorb proportionally far more punishment before you got the option. - A stoppage on the stool now shows the correct round. Long-running saves - Fixed the crashes on the stable, matchmaker, show matchmaker, rankings, bouts, fight record, and Hall of Fame lists. - A fighter with no last fight no longer shows the previous fighter's result. - The Ringside gym filter no longer crashes on an empty age box, and Create A Fighter and Add A Son no longer crash if you type letters into the age field. Reporting a problem - The in-game report button now works whether or not you use Apple Mail.

Create a Fighter - Rebuilt from the ground up. Standard gives you a fighter from the tier you pick. Advanced lets you place every attribute yourself, for free. - On top of that, we’ve added a much-requested feature, and you now see whether the fighter will sign for you before you build. If he qualifies, you can sign him on the spot, and if not, you can pay the gap in XP and sign him anyway and instantly have the fighter with the XP added at the start as opposed to throughout their career. Same XP cost, just paid up front. Your stable - The roster screen can now be sorted and filtered. Who needs a fight, whose deal is nearly up, who is closest to a title shot, all a tap away by tapping the tap of the stable list. - Record, rankings, belts, age and next fight now on every row. Making fights - Win chance and edge now use the new fight model on the classic matchmaker screen as well. - Create Show no longer drops you on an empty venue screen and charges a site fee for nothing. Shows and venues - Shows in UK cities were selling as if they were abroad, so your home crowd never turned up. Home shows now sell to a home crowd. Fight night - The result now says whether you threw the towel or the corner retired him. - Post-show finances show what was settled on the night and the PPV split. Hall of Fame - The Fought for Promotion list is back in the Hall of Fame. Fixed - Crashes on long saves in the matchmaker, on show night and when deleting promoters. - Backing out of Load Game could leave you playing in the wrong save. - The report button now goes to one support address that we read every day.

Fixed - Issue with single fights not being possible for created fighter. Create a Fighter - Rebuilt from the ground up. Standard gives you a fighter from the tier you pick. Advanced lets you place every attribute yourself, for free. - On top of that, we’ve added a much-requested feature, and you now see whether the fighter will sign for you before you build. If he qualifies, you can sign him on the spot, and if not, you can pay the gap in XP and sign him anyway and instantly have the fighter with the XP added at the start as opposed to throughout their career. Same XP cost, just paid up front. Your stable - The roster screen can now be sorted and filtered. Who needs a fight, whose deal is nearly up, who is closest to a title shot, all a tap away by tapping the tap of the stable list. - Record, rankings, belts, age and next fight now on every row. Making fights - Win chance and edge now use the new fight model on the classic matchmaker screen as well. - Create Show no longer drops you on an empty venue screen and charges a site fee for nothing. Shows and venues - Shows in UK cities were selling as if they were abroad, so your home crowd never turned up. Home shows now sell to a home crowd. Fight night - The result now says whether you threw the towel or the corner retired him. - Post-show finances show what was settled on the night and the PPV split. Hall of Fame - The Fought for Promotion list is back in the Hall of Fame.