Eight years after the last title in the Fight Night series was released, boxi🔜ng promoter Eddie Hearn claims the games might be making a comeback.
Developers releasing a new version of a game with each passing year is not a new phenomenon. Sports games, in particular, are pretty much expected to release new games annually with tweaked features and, most importantly, up-to-date rosters. Madden, FIFA, WWE 2K, and NBA 2K are just a few of the serie🍎s that release new 𝓰titles each and every year.
One sport that is currently seriously lacking on the video game front is boxing. A lapse in popularity in the sport presumably led to developers having little-to-no interest in creating a game following its exploits. Prior to that, EA Sports released a Knockout Kings title once a year, every year between 1998 and 2003. Knockout Kings was then replaced by Fight Night in 2004.
In 2006, EA stopped releasing a Fight Night title every single year. We had to wait a further three years for the next game, and then another two for Fight Night Champion. That 2011 offering is the most up-to-date Fight Night game to this day. However, according to boxing promoter Eddie Hearn, EA is currently looking into reviving the 🔥franchise.
Hearn told that he has written to EA Sports asking about the franchise, and that the developers actually got back to him about it. "I wrote to EA Sports, 'Do you realize how many questions I get about Fight Night games. Let me bring it back'...[They respond with] 'Oh, we're looking at it, we're looking at it," Hearn explained. The promoter was prompted to get in touch with EA following the reaction he gets on Twitter whenever he mentions Fight Night.
As for Hearn's immediate future, he has bigger fish to fry than the revival of the Fight Night franchise. Earlier this year, his number one client Anthony Joshua suffered a shock knockout defeat at the hands of Andy Ruiz Jr. On December 7, 2019, AJ will get his rematch in Saudi Arabia. Perhaps Hearn's involvement in a potential Fight Night return will need to wait until after that match.
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