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Introducing Boxing Manager Ringside
The most insanely accurate and realistic boxing simulation EVER.
Experience the ultimate way for our most dedicated fans to gain early access to the newest and most significant game features before they arrive in our flagship, and still free-to-play, BOXING MANAGER app.
In addition to the latest version of Boxing Manager, you also receive:
• Early and Exclusive Access: Enjoy all our new launch features months ahead of the regular game.
• Exclusive Native Versions: Get dedicated versions for iPhone, iPad, and, for the first time, silicon Mac for our desktop enthusiasts.
• Unlimited Sons for Gyms: Expand your gyms with unlimited sons.
• Extra XP Perks: Receive additional experience perks with each new game.
• Skip the Undercard: Utilize auto-fight mode for shows, exclusive to Ringside.
• Support Faster Development: Your subscription helps us develop better features more quickly.
• No Weight Pack Purchases Needed: Access all weight classes without additional purchases.
Boxing Manager Ringside is a subscription only product.
You can still enjoy our free Boxing Manager app! Ringside is designed for those who wish to support our development and gain early access to our newest features.
Terms of Use (EULA) can be found at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
more Stability
- Fixed a crash when scrolling through your stable or the matchmaker’s opponent list.
- Fixed a crash on the Hall of Fame and fighter profile cards.
- Fixed a crash when confirming a fight for a fighter with a short contract.
- If your save data can’t be opened, the game now explains the issue instead of refusing to start.
Money
- Title fights booked from offers now pay your fighter their proper share of the gate.
- XP purchases now always arrive. Some players paid and received nothing. If that was you, contact us and we’ll sort it out.
- Away fights’ crowds were being discounted twice. Foreign gates and ticket forecasts are now functioning correctly.
- The venue screen now checks your actual bank balance, removing the “can’t afford” message for venues you could afford.
- Booking a venue for a card with fewer than six fights now warns you that the networks won’t broadcast it before you pay the site fee.
Shows & Matchmaking
- The create-show screen displays venues again, the search function actually works, and a show can no longer be created without a stadium.
- Adding a world-title fight to a show: if none of your shows are far enough out for the build-up, the game now informs you instead of leaving you with a blank page.
Ringside subscription
- A bad connection no longer signs you out of your subscription. If Ringside ever says you’re not a member, don’t reinstall your careers live on this device. Close and reopen the app instead.
Managers & Rosters & GOAT
- Losses no longer impact your manager rating five times as severely as wins raise it. It can’t fall below zero and ratings already damaged heal themselves upon loading.
- GOAT scores now update correctly.
26.2.3 5 days ago
Training and development
- Your gym now works on the newer skills by itself: jab, hooks, footwork, head movement, counters and the rest. Set the training focus and your fighters improve week to week for free.
- The Strategy focus much improved, now covering footwork, feinting and ring movement.
- Conditioning can now be trained, under the Physical focus.
Making fights
- Matchmaking screen improved on player feedback, with a tighter opponent list and proper sorting.
- Style tab: how the two styles actually compare.
- Form tab: the last five fights for both fighters, side by side.
- Rankings tab: where each fighter stands with every sanctioning body and the division.
- Terms now shows your forecast gate and what you stand to make or lose on the night.
Weight divisions
- Champion's Move is back for saves without the weight pack.
- Weight screens now tell you how long a move takes and why you are being held.
Fight night
- Referees are now more likely to wave a fight off in round one when a fighter is taking punishment.
- The popup on first entry to the fight screen is gone.
Shows and venues
- Main events can be staged anywhere in the world. Showcase shows stay at home, where your fighters sell the tickets.
- The venue list now runs home, then your country, then the world, smallest hall first.
- Taking a fight abroad no longer brings your whole following with you.
- Sixteen South African venues added, FNB Stadium among them.
Your legacy
- New! Moments scrapbook in the Hall of Fame: the nights worth keeping, and your Year in Review.
- New! GOAT tab on every fighter profile. Greatness counts in the division it was won in.
- The news now reports a fighter retiring as champion.
- National flags on world champions and pound for pound in the World of Boxing screen.
Your account and options
- One subscription now covers Boxing Manager and Ringside.
- Restore Purchases now sits in Game Options.
Speed and performance
- Advancing the week is faster, deep saves most of all.
- Fighter profiles open faster.
Fixed
- Better world title scheduling gaps for all world title organisations.
- Fighter ownership confused both ways: a ranked fighter could open as one of yours, letting you re-sign his contract, and your own champion could open as somebody else's.
- Opponent records on the Record tab were too low: fights from before your career began were left out, so a 20-16-1 opponent read 10-5-1.
- Punch accuracy on the fighter profile showed a fraction of the real number.
- Some iPads would not launch after updating.
- Fixed from 26.2.1. Damage stopped making sense past 35-40 fights, showing a 50+ fight veteran as almost unmarked. Damage already lost cannot be recovered.
- A fight could inherit the previous fight's title, which led to wrong new champion announcements.
- The post-fight summary never mentioned a belt changing hands.
- A champion defending his own title was told it was a non-title bout.
- Make Fight could show no opponents at all and stay that way.
- Promoters who lost their whole roster never signed anyone again.
- Created fighters ignored the style you picked.
- Checking the stats mid-fight showed you the result before the final bell.
- A fighter who boxed once in a paid division was stuck there for good.
- The lightest divisions stalled: fighters seeded without a record could not be matched.
- Crashes when opening the champions list from the rankings, and while scrolling the show list and your stable.
- The fighter profile always reopened on the first tab.
- Bets went missing when a fight moved week.
- The weight and contract buttons on a fighter's profile disappeared at random.
- Training could burn potential on a bad week, and a fighter with none left crashed the development screen.
- Opponent names on the matchmaker form rows collapsed into dots.
- Staging a show in a cheaper country paid far more than it should.
- Fighter cards cut the top and bottom off the text.
- A referee stoppage did not pay out on the stoppage bet.
26.2.2 12 Aug
Training and development
- Your gym now works on the newer skills by itself: jab, hooks, footwork, head movement, counters and the rest. Set the training focus and your fighters improve week to week for free.
- The Strategy focus much improved, now covering footwork, feinting and ring movement.
- Conditioning can now be trained, under the Physical focus.
Making fights
- Matchmaking screen improved on player feedback, with a tighter opponent list and proper sorting.
- Style tab: how the two styles actually compare.
- Form tab: the last five fights for both fighters, side by side.
- Rankings tab: where each fighter stands with every sanctioning body and the division.
- Terms now shows your forecast gate and what you stand to make or lose on the night.
Weight divisions
- Champion's Move is back for saves without the weight pack.
- Weight screens now tell you how long a move takes and why you are being held.
Fight night
- Referees are now more likely to wave a fight off in round one when a fighter is taking punishment.
- The popup on first entry to the fight screen is gone.
Shows and venues
- Main events can be staged anywhere in the world. Showcase shows stay at home, where your fighters sell the tickets.
- The venue list now runs home, then your country, then the world, smallest hall first.
- Taking a fight abroad no longer brings your whole following with you.
- Sixteen South African venues added, FNB Stadium among them.
Your legacy
- New! Moments scrapbook in the Hall of Fame: the nights worth keeping, and your Year in Review.
- New! GOAT tab on every fighter profile. Greatness counts in the division it was won in.
- The news now reports a fighter retiring as champion.
- National flags on world champions and pound for pound in the World of Boxing screen.
Your account and options
- One subscription now covers Boxing Manager and Ringside.
- Restore Purchases now sits in Game Options.
Speed and performance
- Advancing the week is faster, deep saves most of all.
- Fighter profiles open faster.
Fixed
- Better world title scheduling gaps for all world title organisations.
- Fighter ownership confused both ways: a ranked fighter could open as one of yours, letting you re-sign his contract, and your own champion could open as somebody else's.
- Opponent records on the Record tab were too low: fights from before your career began were left out, so a 20-16-1 opponent read 10-5-1.
- Punch accuracy on the fighter profile showed a fraction of the real number.
- Some iPads would not launch after updating.
- Damage stopped making sense past 35-40 fights, showing a 50+ fight veteran as almost unmarked. Damage already lost cannot be recovered.
- A fight could inherit the previous fight's title, which led to wrong new champion announcements.
- The post-fight summary never mentioned a belt changing hands.
- A champion defending his own title was told it was a non-title bout.
- Make Fight could show no opponents at all and stay that way.
- Promoters who lost their whole roster never signed anyone again.
- Created fighters ignored the style you picked.
- Checking the stats mid-fight showed you the result before the final bell.
- A fighter who boxed once in a paid division was stuck there for good.
- The lightest divisions stalled: fighters seeded without a record could not be matched.
- Crashes when opening the champions list from the rankings, and while scrolling the show list and your stable.
- The fighter profile always reopened on the first tab.
- Bets went missing when a fight moved week.
- The weight and contract buttons on a fighter's profile disappeared at random.
- Training could burn potential on a bad week, and a fighter with none left crashed the development screen.
- Opponent names on the matchmaker form rows collapsed into dots.
- Staging a show in a cheaper country paid far more than it should.
- Fighter cards cut the top and bottom off the text.
- A referee stoppage did not pay out on the stoppage bet.
26.2.1 11 Aug
26.2.0
New!
- Share your show poster! Our new poster templates make creating customisable posters for your upcoming bill a breeze. Simply share them wherever you like!
- Share fight results and post it to Instagram or Facebook Stories, Discord, Messages, anywhere!
- Share fighter cards — a proper trading card for any fighter you manage or have managed: honours, ratings, division, hometown. Tap Share on the fighter screen.
- Fighter photos — add your own picture for each fighter (there's a prompt you can copy if you'd rather generate one). It shows on their Overview and beside the verdict on the result screen.
- Record the fight — hit REC during a broadcast fight to save, edit, create and share your promotion’s fight content.
- Follow #boxingmanager — Discord, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube links added to the Community screen.
- Improved venue dashboard and management
- Ringside subscribers can now use their subscription inside the Boxing Manager app as well as the Ringside app.
26.2.0 29 Jul
26.1.4
Fight engine and broadcast screen
- TKO/RSF updated fully and now works correctly
- Updated fight screen: announcer intro cards removed (fights start straight away), a new Judges tab (your officials, their tendencies, and their scorecards after the final bell),
- New Data view screen similar to the classic BM fight screen of old
- Force-quitting at the verdict no longer re-rolls the result.
Share your career
- Share fight results and post it to Instagram or Facebook Stories, Messages, anywhere.
- Share fighter cards — a proper trading card for any fighter you manage or have managed: honours, ratings, division, hometown. Tap Share on the fighter screen.
- Fighter photos — add your own picture for each fighter (there's a prompt you can copy if you'd rather generate one). It shows on their Overview and beside the verdict on the result screen.
- Record the fight — hit REC during a broadcast fight to save and share a video of it.
- Follow #boxingmanager — Facebook, Instagram and YouTube links added to the Community screen.
Fixed
- Subscribers can move fighters through every weight division again — some saves were stuck on the base seven.
- Declining a mandatory as the challenger is free again; the champion's "settle the clause" fee no longer leaks onto challenger offers.
- Make Fight: the sanctioning body buttons now genuinely re-sort the list by that body's rankings, each fighter's rank pill shows the body you picked, and follower counts are back.
- Your fighter's amateur record and amateur honours now appear on their pro profile.
- Opponent records show on the Next Fight / Last Fight cards.
- Cash Boost with no balance now explains what it is and offers a way to get one instead of showing an error.
- Fixed a crash on the subscribe screen, memory fixes that keep long sessions and week advances stable.
- Tapping company/promotional name now allows a change to the name. Note: this will update all previous shows.
26.1.4 26 Jul
- Fixed issue where managed fighter could only be played as NPC in fight broadcast screen.
- Fixed longstanding weight change issue for players who haven’t purchased weight pack.
- Fixed years/weeks out of action issue on some fighters.
- Fixed issue where fight broadcast screen does not end on fight end.
- Fixed issue where belt goes to losing opponent.
- Fixed duplicate fighters in amateurs.
- Fixed issue with rematch response.
26.1.3 16 Jul
- Improved opponent selection in matchmaker screen.
- Fixed vacate button not appearing on fighter screen.
- Removed xp exploit.
- Fixed some small bugs and UI glitches.
- Fixed distribution of points decision more realistically.
- Added jab, uppercut, hook, ring movement to fighter XP development options and training updates.
- Improved generation routine for the newly added fighter attributes.
Thanks to all players for feedback via the in game Issues link.
26.1.2 12 Jul
The biggest Boxing Manager and Ringside update in years!
However, we are making a first release exclusively for Ringside subscribers.
Thank you for your subscription, and we have many new Ringside subscriber functionalities coming (very, very) soon.
This update will be available soon for all Boxing Manager players.
Some highlights for this release:
- Brand new fight engine (our first in over a decade)
- More boxing realism
- More punch and action precision
- Incredible comparison with real-world fight statistics
- Provenly the most accurate fight simulation anywhere ever
- New pre-fight strategies
- New corner shouts
- All new fight screens and broadcast modes
Other highlights:
- 10 new visible fighter attributes
- Better fighter progression when developing a career
- Improved UI for many screens and more to come
- Improved dashboard
- Improved matchmaking screens
- New improved fighter dashboard
Quite frankly, there’s almost too much to mention, so take a look instead!
This also includes the fixes.
- Fixed issue with hook, jab, uppercut values not auto healing when attribute value is 0.
- Fixed 2.5m XP pack issue.
- Fixed issue whereby new matchmaker roster list would compress if full of fighters.
- Fixed issue where approach button was not appearing on the fighter page.
26.1.1 9 Jul
The biggest Boxing Manager and Ringside update in years!
However, we are making a first release exclusively for Ringside subscribers.
Thank you for your subscription, and we have many new Ringside subscriber functionalities coming (very, very) soon.
This update will be available soon for all Boxing Manager players.
Some highlights for this release:
- Brand new fight engine (our first in over a decade)
- More boxing realism
- More punch and action precision
- Incredible comparison with real-world fight statistics
- Provenly the most accurate fight simulation anywhere ever
- New pre-fight strategies
- New corner shouts
- All new fight screens and broadcast modes
Other highlights:
- 10 new visible fighter attributes
- Better fighter progression when developing a career
- Improved UI for many screens and more to come
- Improved dashboard
- Improved matchmaking screens
- New improved fighter dashboard
Quite frankly, there’s almost too much to mention, so take a look instead!
26.1.0 8 Jul
- Fixed issue with weight mismatches occurring in titles.
- Fixed dual title holder issue.
- Fixed issue with regional titles not vacating on champion becoming world champion in all instances.
- Fixed situation whereby weights become over time heavily under or over populated.
- Fixed stale titles with fights not being scheduled correctly.
- Preparation work for forthcoming update to fighter attributes and fight engine and screens.
26.0.18 25 May
- Fixed issue whereby a crash could occur in some instances when signing a new fighter to a contract.
26.0.17 29 Apr
- Fixed forced title vacation bug occurring upon winning title via vacant title route.
- Fixed issue where fighter retirement did not immediately vacate titles.
- Fixed issue which added title win to fighter record on becoming interim champion through vacant title.
- Fixed show finances display which doubled counted gate revenues that are paid weekly not at end of show. This was a display issue only and not related to show finances themselves.
- Fixed show finances display for consistency with in game TV revenues. This was a display issue only and not related to show finances themselves.
- Fixed show finance TV deal percentage to match in game percentages.
26.0.16 28 Apr
- Fixed issue whereby a champion could not offer a single fight to a fighter who is designated as a mandatory challenger for any organisation.
- Fixed issue where if a fighter left company after court action the promoter name and gym slots were not updated.
- Fixed show finance display issue whereby showcase labels were incorrectly displayed in finance screen when a main event.
26.0.15 14 Apr
- Fixed issue whereby when rankings were updated, a title could be stripped from a champion due to a duplicate champion being created. This major bug has caused issues with game stability, and we believe that the fix will resolve many downstream game world issues.
26.0.14 12 Apr
- Fixed duplicate regional title issue. This runs in background when advancing game.
- Fixed issue with main event Shows whereby venue cut of ticket revenues was being taken 2-3x resulting in significantly lower profits.
- Fixed issue whereby fights with mandatory challengers could be made. This was resulting in fights being removed from cards without warning.
- Mandatory fighter selection modified to fix issues.
- Fixed issue whereby fights would be removed from cards without warning when a fighter on card is designated as a mandatory challenger subsequent to the fight being made.
26.0.13 7 Apr
- Show engine fix for main event PPV bug introduced previously.
26.0.12 29 Mar
Title Engine
- Fix for title stripping when title first won.
26.0.11 27 Mar
Title engine
- Fighters can no longer be mandatory challenger for more than one belt at a time. This removes the gameplay bottleneck and tedium caused by one fighter being mandatory across all titles.
- Fixed first week title vacation due to a data issue.
Game engine
- Fixed/improved/simplified PPV calculations. Player cut now 9pc of gross PPV. No more costs killings your share of the PPV loot.
- Azerbaijan, Cayman Islands, and Hong Kong naming issues fixed.
26.0.9 24 Mar
* Main event shows are now easier to profit from as all fights on the card contribute to ticket and sales revenue.
* The rematch process has been updated for greater realism and enjoyment.
* The issue of mandatory challengers and some fights disappearing with titles becoming immediately vacant has been resolved.
* Fixed exponential XP issue.
26.0.8 17 Mar
* Main event shows are now easier to profit from as all fights on the card contribute to ticket and sales revenue.
* The rematch process has been updated for greater realism and enjoyment.
* The issue of mandatory challengers and some fights disappearing with titles becoming immediately vacant has been resolved.
26.0.7 16 Mar
Title engine fixes for quick title vacations and missing fights in record. This will prevent future instances.
26.0.6 10 Mar
* Light Flyweight fighters are now fighting.
* The roster screen no longer crashes.
* Retirement logic has been improved to exclude auto-retirement for older managed fighters.
* A warning is now displayed when a manual fighter retirement is attempted, showing the cost to the manager.
* Negative balances are now reset.
* The incorrect inflated guaranteed fee for affected fighters has been corrected to prevent negative show balances.
26.0.5 9 Mar
* Fixed an issue where a challenger who beat the champion in a voluntary/non-mandatory defence as the new champion inherits the old expired deadline and was stripped the following week if old deadline was not updated correctly.
* Fixed issue with incorrect weight change forcing movement of title.
* Fixed issue that caused a rare issue whereby large negative values were created due to show finance issue. These balances are now reset to the previous positive amount.
* Small title optimisations and adjustments
26.0.4 6 Mar
* Removed Manager IP from fighter Potential. This now uses XP as per all other attributes.
* Fixed (we hope) the empty show bug and advance game loop.
* Fixed title vacation issue that could not set up vacant title correctly.
* Fixed title management issues when using duplicate champion fix. Duplicate champions now managed automatically.
26.0.3 3 Mar
* We’ve resolved the crash that occurred when signing fighters with a scheduled fight.
* We’ve also fixed a bug where an NPC champion with a rematch clause might sometimes take a voluntary defence and not honour the rematch agreement.
* We’ve also fixed a bug where a managed fight might end up on a non-existent show and games won’t progress.
* We’ve also made some fixes for games that had a double fight booking issue from an old save.
26.0.2 28 Feb
Stability
- Fixed a crash when scrolling through your stable or the matchmaker’s opponent list.
- Fixed a crash on the Hall of Fame and fighter profile cards.
- Fixed a crash when confirming a fight for a fighter with a short contract.
- If your save data can’t be opened, the game now explains the issue instead of refusing to start.
Money
- Title fights booked from offers now pay your fighter their proper share of the gate.
- XP purchases now always arrive. Some players paid and received nothing. If that was you, contact us and we’ll sort it out.
- Away fights’ crowds were being discounted twice. Foreign gates and ticket forecasts are now functioning correctly.
- The venue screen now checks your actual bank balance, removing the “can’t afford” message for venues you could afford.
- Booking a venue for a card with fewer than six fights now warns you that the networks won’t broadcast it before you pay the site fee.
Shows & Matchmaking
- The create-show screen displays venues again, the search function actually works, and a show can no longer be created without a stadium.
- Adding a world-title fight to a show: if none of your shows are far enough out for the build-up, the game now informs you instead of leaving you with a blank page.
Ringside subscription
- A bad connection no longer signs you out of your subscription. If Ringside ever says you’re not a member, don’t reinstall your careers live on this device. Close and reopen the app instead.
Managers & Rosters & GOAT
- Losses no longer impact your manager rating five times as severely as wins raise it. It can’t fall below zero and ratings already damaged heal themselves upon loading.
- GOAT scores now update correctly.
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