EA Sports confirms Fight Night is coming back, 15 years after Fight Night Champion

EA Sports has confirmed that its Fight Night boxing video game series is coming back. The publisher posted on its @EASPORTSFN account on 20 October an image of boxing gloves hanging over a ring with the line: "To everyone who stayed in our corner: Fight Night is coming back," Sherdog reported.

EA gave no release date, no platforms, no price and no title. All that is confirmed is that the series, dormant since Fight Night Champion in 2011, will return.

The history

Fight Night was EA's flagship boxing game through the 2000s. EA Canada made the original Fight Night in 2004, Fight Night Round 4 and Fight Night Champion; the now-closed EA Chicago studio made Rounds 2 and 3 before it shut in 2007, according to Sherdog. EA's combat-sports focus since then has been its UFC series, built by EA Canada with SkyBox Labs.

What we do not know yet

• Platforms: not announced.
• Release window: not announced.
• Roster and licences: not announced, including which real boxers will feature.

For gamers in Pakistan

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For the week's other fight news, including Shakur Stevenson's exit from Zuffa Boxing, see our report and the rest of our MMA and boxing desk.