EA Announces Its First Fight Night Game Since 2011

New Fight Night Announced After A 15-Year Hiatus EA Published Oct 21, 2026, 2:16 AM EDT Josh Coulson is an editor at TheGamer covering breaking news on everything from colorful platformers to the latest Lego sets. Primarily a news writer since 2018, Josh has covered just about every major game from the past decade. Now an editor, their focus has shifted to being the leading affiliate expert at the site, building relationships between TheGamer and global brands including Mattel, Funko, and The Pokemon Company. Sign in to your TheGamer account Most popular sports have a regular series of video games that let you step into the shoes of its most famous athletes. Not boxing, or at least not boxing since EA shelved its Fight Night series. Now, after 15 years, Fight Night is finally about to return. Out of nowhere on Tuesday, a new account, run by EA, called EA Sports Fight Night appeared on Twitter. For now, there is just one post on that account, and it confirms there’s a new Fight Night on the way, the first game in the series since 2011’s Fight Night Champion. “To everyone who stayed in our corner: Fight Night is coming back,” the post reads. It’s coupled with a pair of boxing gloves hanging over the ring with a spotlight shining on them. The account’s profile reads “back into the ring”, and a not that says ESRB rating pending. That might mean the game has already been submitted to be rated, which in turn would mean the game is a lot closer to being released than you might think. Whether Fight Night’s return is a couple of years away or right around the corner, it’s remarkable that EA has managed to keep the project under wraps. There has been no rumors suggesting the boxing series might be taken out of hibernation, outside of a boxing promoter mentioning that EA might be considering it, and that was more than six years ago. EA released five Fight Night games between 2004 and 2011, all of which scored well reviews-wise with none of them scoring lower than an 85. However, EA shifted its fighting game focus to UFC, releasing its first three years later, and its most recent, UFC 6, this year. That suggests we might now be living in a world where EA releases both boxing games and UFC games, although it’s highly unlikely the series will get a new game each year like EA Sports FC and Madden. UFC never, and Fight Night didn’t before that. One of the assumptions when EA decided to stop making Fight Night games were the issues surrounding securing the rights to use certain boxers’ likenesses. Harder waters to navigate than UFC where you just need to make a deal with the promotion rather than the individual athletes. It seems EA believes that extra effort is worth it again, perhaps an edict brought about by its new owners, although this game has seemingly been in development since before the acquisition.