GETTING BOOKED

A callout is a challenge to one fighter in your division. Tap FIGHT or CALL OUT, choose when the fight starts (right now, a minute or a few minutes out, or a time you pick), add a line of trash talk, and send it.

A callout is a binding offer. If the other side accepts, you are booked at that time with no further confirmation. You can have several callouts out at once; the first one accepted books you and the rest are withdrawn automatically. Until someone accepts, you can pull a callout from the inbox with no penalty.

Each callout waits for an answer until it expires; the inbox shows the time. Arm FIND A REPLACEMENT and, if the challenge runs out unanswered, the matchmaker may fill the fight for you instead. BOT fighters answer callouts after a short delay and never decline.

Incoming challenges land in your CHALLENGE INBOX, reached from HQ or the strip at the top of the FIGHT board. Each card shows the challenger, their record and rank, the proposed start, the purse, and their trash talk.

Tap the start button to accept. That books the fight on the spot and withdraws any other pending callouts involving either of you. A fight proposed for right now starts as soon as you accept, so only tap it when you are ready to walk.

Declining is free and private. Nobody but the challenger finds out, nothing is logged against you, and there is no penalty.

The one exception is the belt. A champion cannot decline a challenge from an eligible human contender. They must either accept it or COUNTER TIME with a different start inside their defense window, and the challenger decides whether to take the counter.

Title shots are earned. To call out the champion you need a top 10 rank in your division, a winning record, and no more than one straight loss. The CALL OUT button on the champion's profile tells you which of those you are missing. The same gate runs the other way: a champion can only call out fighters on that short list, because every fight a champion takes is a defense.

A champion cannot duck a human contender. Your challenge stands in their inbox, and while it can still be booked they cannot take a BOT defense instead. They accept it or counter with a different start time before their defense window closes; you can accept or decline the counter, or preauthorize one when you send.

Champions owe a set number of defenses in each window, shown on the RANKS board. Miss it and the belt is vacated.

Getting a fight is the whole job. A booked fight always runs, so the FIGHT board gives you three ways onto one:

• The matchmaker's book: a short list of suggested matchups pitched to both corners, each with a line on why it is worth making. FIGHT opens the callout composer with that opponent.
• Callouts: challenge anyone in your division yourself, from the board, a profile, or the search box.
• The open contract: sign and let the matchmaker find you an opponent.

Opponents come from your own league tier and weight class, so you only ever face fighters on your level. You can hold one booking at a time. When any route books you, the game withdraws your other pending challenges and tears up any contract you had signed.

Every fighter starts on the amateur circuit. Amateurs get one extra door: FIGHT A BOT NOW on HQ, a truly instant fight against a BOT. It is the fast lane for learning the game. Champions cannot use it; they must fight contenders.

The call-up follows your overall rating. Crossing OVR 52 opens your farewell window after your next fight: a gold strip counts down six non-title amateur fights in which to win the amateur title or sign with Regional Pro, and a sign-now offer stays on the table the whole time. Title fights never spend the window. Win the belt and the window becomes a defense count instead (two), with the call-up landing after that or after your next loss.

OVR 57 is the hard cap. Cross it and you go up after your next fight, belt or not. Every call-up lands at a fight's settlement, never from a menu.

The filters tell the matchmaker who you will and will not take on an open contract:

• Ranked only: opponents on the current rankings.
• No bots: wait for a human opponent.
• No champs: exclude reigning champions.
• No campmates: exclude fighters from your own camp. Camp membership is never a matchup restriction on its own, so without this switch you can be paired with a teammate.
• OVR cap: the highest opponent overall rating you will take.

Every filter narrows the pool, so every filter can mean a longer wait. A BOT may still fill the contract if it meets your filters. No bots is the strict one: your contract waits for an eligible player, and that can take a while in a quiet division. With no filters set, humans get first call and a BOT fills in if needed.

A fighter wearing the BOT tag is run by the game, not by a player. BOT fighters keep every division deep enough that anyone who wants a fight can get one. They train, age, take damage, hold rankings, and can win belts, and they fight under exactly the same rules you do.

In the cage there is no difference. A BOT's corner follows a game plan like any other, and the fight plays out in the same engine with the same play-by-play.

Around the booking, bots are polite. They answer callouts after a short delay and never decline. They never take an open contract a matching human could have taken; humans always get first call. A BOT champion defends on its own clock, offering the shot to eligible human contenders first. Beating a BOT counts on your record and your ranking like any other win.

An open contract is "get me a fight." Pick your opponent filters, tap SIGN OPEN CONTRACT, and the matchmaker starts working the phones. There is no fixed time on it: the moment someone takes the other side, the bell rings 30 seconds later, so be ready.

Humans get first call. While your signature stands, eligible fighters in your division see it on their board as an accept-only row, and one tap from them books the fight. If no human steps in, a BOT can fill the contract so you still get your fight, unless your filters say otherwise.

Until it is filled you can TEAR UP the contract at any time from the board or the inbox. If the search runs a long time and nobody eligible turns up, the contract expires and you are free to book again.

Fights are real time. There is no nightly card and no fixed fight slots; a fight rings when the two corners agree it rings, any hour of the day.

When you send a callout you choose the start: RIGHT NOW, a minute or a few minutes after acceptance, or PICK A TIME for a named start. Relative starts count from the moment the other side accepts, so RIGHT NOW means the fight begins the second they tap. A named time can be set a little later or up to about a week ahead. An open contract has no time of its own: the bell is 30 seconds after someone takes the other side.

Once booked, a fight runs at that time whether you are there or not, and you cannot cancel it. You hold one booking at a time, so the next fight waits until this one settles.

A few things stop a booking, and the game tells you which one:

• Condition at zero. The commissioner will not book a fighter with nothing in the tank. Recover first; low condition also drags your stats down.
• One booking at a time. A booked or signed fighter is spoken for until that fight settles.
• Rematch rules. "Too soon, you two just danced" means you need a different opponent until both of you have fought someone else.
• Filters. No bots waits for a human; Ranked only, No champs, No campmates, and an OVR cap all shrink the pool, so a filtered contract can sit a long time in a quiet division.

An unfiltered open contract is usually filled within minutes, by a human if one is available and otherwise by a BOT. If nobody eligible exists after a long search, the contract expires.