It’s gotten easier, and I’ve only had the game 7 days.
I wish there was a way to practice it by itself.
I’ve been able to get up 3 times, and IIRC I haven’t been knocked down more than that in a fight yet.
But again last night I screwed up a second knockdown which ended the fight sooner than it should have.
Granted I’d had a few beers.
Are there complaints about the cuts?
How is that even possible?
The knockdown minigame actually starts while its transitioning to that screen, before you can actually see it. You can already be holding the triggers to raise your bars. Its predictable so with some practice you can have a decent amount of progress (relative to a 6th knockdown anyway) already built by the time it draws on your screen.
Tho I dont know if this is the same on consoles as I have just been playing on PC since my kids rule the TV.
In general people do complain that its not super consistent and does occur too frequently. It use to be worse and they toned it down. But to be fair, if you box better you wont get hit as often 
I had a feeling someone would come back with that lol.
I don’t know man… I’m not a spammer, and I think I’m blocking pretty good for being a noob. It’s not my first rodeo as far as boxing games.
Last night I had a title fight stopped in the 4th round because of a cut to my fighter. And I was ahead on the score cards and had the guy rocked several times by then – so I must have been boxing pretty good relative to that fight.
I can see the cuts being kind of like a gate keeper for beginners I guess.
But my issue is them derailing all out wars.
For example the Robinson vs Canelo fight I mentioned.
12th round and neither of us had been knocked down, and Canelo has power.
So obviously we weren’t being careless, and neither of us had bad cut damage that I recall. We weren’t all busted up.
Then suddenly the ref stops it with 14 seconds left in the final round.
That really frustrated me.
Oh Ive had some absolute uninstall rage quit moments due to a fight ending by cut. Usually when im mounting a huge comeback!
But in several thousand fights its a very small number that ended that way.
Hehe I have 800 hours and over 2000 ranked fights since it came out
I saw a message for an update saying they removed created fighters from Ranked.
Does that mean you can only fight with real fighters online?
I suppose it makes sense if there’s no limit to the ratings. Why not just max every stat out at 100 if you know other people will do the same..
Created fighters were capped at 83 or 85 (cant remember) overall in online play. But what the problem was that you could just make your guy super tall and load him with the meta techniques. Insanely overpowered. yeah you can only use real boxers in ranked.
I agree with you about the gameplay. It’s good, but the cut stoppages are too frequent, as is just getting bad swelling and cuts that you have to worry about. They should be able to dial that down quite easily and I’m not sure why they haven’t. Hopefully they get around to it.
I agree about the issue with your opponent being too hard to hit when they lean back. I think this issue is generally even worse for me because I use only swarmers, who are shorter on average, so trying to hit a taller fighter that’s leaning back can be frustrating.
I think I’m lukewarm about the getting up from a knockdown mini-game. I think I can usually get up 3 times in a fight. Maybe 4. I prefer the Fight Night Round 4 mini-game but this one isn’t a problem for me.
When you say Usyk is a problem, is this at heavyweight? I think he’s probably even tougher at cruiserweight where his rating is higher, and there are fewer elite fighters on the roster to give him competition. I use Rocky at cruiserweight and his stats are awesome, but the reach disadvantage against Usyk is crazy.
The career mode stuff and the created fighter stuff I don’t have experience with in this game, but I do hope you have fun with it and that the developers make good tweaks for you.
Did you buy any of the fighter packs? I think the WBC one, and the one with Pacquiao are particularly good.
What’s a meta technique?
I wasn’t aware you could choose individual punches. Thought you had to choose from the preset categories.
But I have only created one fighter for career mode, so maybe I missed some stuff.
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Speaking of create fighter, that’s another minor gripe.
It’s extremely detailed, but without editable premade templates, it’s pretty tedious to make different types starting from scratch.
Ive never actually created a fighter so I made some assumptions. I suppose its just a preset that has more unblockable punches than others.
Didn’t know that was a thing either.
I can imagine online is full of 7ft tall 300 lbs fighters with orangatang arms!
Yeah hopefully.
Funny, I actually had a career mode fight where I was losing every round and used the cuts thing to my advantage to get the stoppage. It was the only way I could win that particular fight at the time.
But for the wars my son and I tend to have, it’s definitely too much.
Yeah it’s weird.
They kind of get frozen there for a few seconds and it looks funny.
There was also a guy who fought sideways in career mode lol.
I can’t even explain it.
I’m not a fan.
Even if I get better at it I don’t think I’ll like the concept.
You can have a fighter with a lot of heart, but fuck up the mini game and you can’t get up lol.
Yes.
IMO he seems too good at HW.
Not saying he shouldn’t be good, but he’s like the second best behind Ali I think.
Granted I haven’t unlocked all the available HWs. Looking forward to trying Vitali.
Usyk just seems too smooth and powerful to me --at any range with any type of exchange.
Like I said it kind of reminds me of using Ali or Ray Robinson – who are generally considered the GOATs.
He’s even smoother than RJJ and Ray Leonard I think.
Maybe as I get better my opinion will change.
I used Marciano vs my son using Usyk last night.
I don’t think the game is giving Rocky’s power enough credit.
It’s definitely an uphill battle in every exchange, and I ended up losing that one.
Not yet.
I only see 2 available in the game messages.
Might need to browse the store. I don’t have an x box myself so not really used to it.
Will probably get one soon.
I’m still not sure how to unlock all the available fighters that came with it, like the Klitschko brothers, Buttsrbean, etc.
I definitely want Pacquiao and Chavez.
Very much bummed that Duran isn’t available.
Not interested in trying to create legends, even with a tutorial.
They should just be in the game.
I think you have to buy those guys to unlock them.
I think you’ll like Ali 64 and he’s in the WBC pack. He’s REALLY fast. He might be able to make Usyk look the way you want him to. Plus, I think you just flat out like Ali.
The Pacquiao pack is the latest one. He’s new to the game. His stats look awesome and he’s in a lot of the divisions - four or five. I haven’t used him or fought against him. I need to get a fight or two in, it’s been a while. I think I’ll take on Pacquiao with JCC. Battle of two legendary lightweight swarmers.
For sure.
I actually have only used him once so far.
Almost seems cheap picking the GOAT all the time.
Haven’t dialed in a favorite HW yet.
So far have liked using Morrison and Bowe.
Holmes too.
I really liked using Ray Robinson.
Very slick.
Been spending more time in career mode.
My LHW is 18-2-2.
I think he’s going to get old before I can build him all the way up.
I can’t believe they’re putting Jake Paul in the game.
Hopefully his stats are way low.
That’s awesome that you’re using those guys. I feel like they aren’t used as often as some of the other heavyweights. Holmes is a slightly under the radar all-time great. Peak Bowe is a serious opponent for any heavyweight ever. Morrison isn’t as good but he was cool.
Frazier vs Holmes would be cool.
Btw, I just checked and Pacquiao is in 4 divisions and he’s a 92 overall in three of those divisions, and a 91 in the other. On paper, he’s going to have a pretty big impact on the game if he’s as good as he looks, across that many divisions. I’m sticking with JCC though.