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Pound for Pound

Run your own MMA promotion. Sign fighters, book cards, manage contracts, and build a combat sports empire in a deep, procedurally generated MMA management sim.

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Very Positive (21) - 90% of the 21 user reviews in the last 30 days are positive.

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Very Positive (66) - 96% of the 66 user reviews for this game are positive.

Release Date:

Mar 20, 2026

Developer:

Pound for Pound Games

Publisher:

Pound for Pound Games

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English	✔

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What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“Early Access allows the game to grow alongside the community that enjoys these types of management & tycoon games. This gives players the opportunity to help shape how the game evolves as new systems, balance improvements, and quality-of-life features are added.

Player feedback is especially valuable for simulation games like this, where long-term balance and emergent gameplay matter. Early Access helps ensure the game develops in the right direction.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“Pound for Pound is planned to remain in Early Access while core systems are expanded, refined, and balanced with community feedback. We anticipate 6-12 months of Early Access.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“During Early Access, the plan is to continue expanding the game’s systems and depth.

We plan on working on:
- Additional management and progression systems
- Expanded world simulation and promotion behavior
- More fighter development and career progression mechanics
- Additional strategic decisions for growing and managing your promotion
- Improvements to the fight engine and simulation realism
- UI improvements and quality-of-life features
”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“The Early Access version is fully playable and contains the core gameplay loop of running an MMA promotion.

Players can sign fighters, negotiate contracts, build divisions, book fight cards, schedule events, and watch fights play out through the simulation engine. The game world is procedurally generated, allowing for long-term saves where fighters develop, champions rise and fall, and promotions compete over time.

While the core systems are in place, development will continue during Early Access to expand the depth of the simulation, add additional features, and improve balance and usability.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“Yes, the price will increase when the game leaves Early Access.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“Community feedback plays an important role in shaping Pound for Pound. Players can provide feedback through the official Discord server, Steam discussions, and the in-game feedback tools. Suggestions, bug reports, and balance feedback help guide development priorities and future improvements.”

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About This Game

Pound for Pound is a deep MMA promotion sim where you start from nothing and build your way to the top. Sign unknown fighters, book smart matchups, grow your brand, and try to become the biggest MMA organization in the world while rival promotions fight you for talent, dates, and dominance.

Build Your Promotion From the Ground Up

You control the business behind the fights.

Sign and manage fighters, negotiate contracts, develop talent, build divisions, schedule events, choose venues, and decide when your promotion is ready to take the next step.

Start small. Fill local venues. Build stars. Expand your roster. Unlock new weight classes, bigger events, better opportunities, sponsorships, TV deals, and new territories as your organization grows.

Fighters Are More Than Stats

Fighters build relationships with your promotion over time. Treat them well and they may become loyal, easier to re-sign, and more willing to take risks for you. Ignore their careers, underpay them, break promises, or leave them waiting too long, and that loyalty can disappear.

Fighters can demand title shots, rematches, hometown bookings, main-card placement, pay raises, release requests, or specific opponents. Some requests are reasonable. Some are political. Some come with deadlines.

How you handle them shapes your locker room.

Deep Fight Simulation, Styles Make Fights

Every matchup is driven by fighter attributes, tendencies, style, and career development.

Wrestlers can smother dangerous strikers. Pressure fighters can overwhelm patient counter punchers. Veterans may decline. Prospects may break through. Champions can rise, dominate, and eventually fall.

Build contenders. Protect investments. Create stars. Shape divisions that develop history over years of play.

Negotiate Like a Promoter

Booking fights is not always as simple as offering a bout.

Fighters react based on personality, career position, risk, money, rivalries, teammate conflicts, title paths, short notice, and bad blood. Some will jump at a grudge match. Others will push back, demand more, or refuse unless the offer fits their goals.

You can make promises to close difficult deals: a title shot with a win, a rematch after a loss, a home-region fight, a main-card spot, or a specific future opponent.

But promises matter. Break them, and fighters remember.

Build Your Story

Fighters rise from unknown prospects to contenders, champions, and legends. Rivalries form. Title lineages grow. Divisions evolve. Stars leave, decline, return, or demand their moment.

Your decisions create the history of your promotion.

Who did you build? Who did you betray? Which fights defined your era?

A Competitive World.

You’re not alone.

Other promotions are chasing the same prospects, booking their own events, targeting key dates, and building their own legacies. Fighters have options. Momentum matters. Talent can slip away if you are not paying attention.

Stay ahead or get left behind.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

AI was used to generate fighter images and parts of the marketing material

System Requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 / AMD FX-6300
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: AMD Radeon R7 240
Storage: 2 GB available space

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