Fight Night 4 - A Fan's Dream -

[El Kabong]

OK I thought some more and how about these:

* More Venues in different areas - if you think about it all they would have to do is change the name of the venue all you're going to see as a fighter (before you get to the big time, I'll explain this more later) is the ring.

* Pre-fight hype - sure you want weigh ins and press confrences BUT how about an HBO World Championship Boxing or Boxing After Dark style lead in with a guy like Jim Lampley giving a story of the fighters and talking about the venue (let's say Cesar's Palace, The Superdome, Madison Square Garden, MGM Grand and The Boardwalk etc) and what historic fights have happened there, Harold Lederman giving the rules, and them discussing strategies, the histories of the fighters, strengths and weaknesses, and the ever important tale of the tape and hopefully that would actually mean something in this version.

* Home cooking/Home crowd advantage - If you have more venues then maybe when you fight farther away from home (either where you actually hail from or where you train) you should be booed more if you're young and no one knows you or you're Floyd Mayweather Jr., and if you're a celebrated fighter you should get a big boost from your fans cheering for you...nothing crazy but just lots of cheering and maybe the other fighter is affected negatively or something, being intimidated or whatever. There should also be sheisty decisions and scoring and the announcers should bring it up and argue about it....it's all a part of professional boxing. You should also be able to be a World Superstar like Ali and be cheered wherever you go

* Gyms/Trainers - sure they had gyms in other games and trainers as well but they should put some more stuff in here. Have the REAL gyms in there giving out some free pub for this sport and places where men are molded to be fighters: Kronk, Gleason's, Wild Card, The Poconos, Big Bear, etc. And all of the gyms give you different benefits OR your trainers teach you specific styles of fighting and either be good for you or bad for you and present problems when fighting certain fighters....OR they could be training another fighter who ends up being a rival of yours starting out in sparring or the amatuers. Any way you need current trainers in there and maybe an option to make your own and you can train your own stable of fighters like a Football Manager or something