RESULTS AND SCORING

A fight ends one of four ways:

• Knockout (KO): a strike puts a fighter out.
• Technical knockout (TKO): the referee stops it, usually because a hurt fighter is taking unanswered punishment on the feet or on the mat.
• Submission: a fighter taps to a hold, or is choked unconscious. The game bills that one PUT TO SLEEP.
• Decision: the fight goes the distance and three judges score it.

A decision is unanimous when all three judges agree, split when one picks the other fighter, and majority when the third card is even. If the judges cannot separate the fighters it is a draw, also billed unanimous, majority, or split. A rematch after a draw is allowed right away.

Finishes earn more in fan reaction and awards than decisions, and they are what KO and SUB of the night are judged on.

Three named judges score every round on the familiar ten-point scale. The round winner gets 10 and the loser 9, or 8 when the round was a one-sided beating. The SCORECARDS panel after a decision shows every judge's card round by round, the totals, and how the verdict was reached.

Judges credit what they can see: clean strikes landed, the damage they did, hurting an opponent, takedowns and guard passes, control time on top or in the clinch, and genuinely dangerous submission attempts. Volume alone does not win a round if the other fighter landed the shots that mattered.

Knockdowns weigh heavily. A knockdown is the most valuable thing in a round short of a finish, and a fighter who drops their opponent twice more than they are dropped takes the round outright. On a razor-close round a judge can see it the other way; that is a split decision.

Yes, within limits that stop a pair farming each other.

After a decisive result, you cannot book the same opponent again until each of you has fought someone else. The game says it is too soon and to find fresh blood. After a draw you can run it back right away.

Two fighters can meet four times in their careers: the first fight and three rematches, never three in a row. Champions get two twists: a champion can defend against the same challenger only once per defense window unless their last fight was a draw, and the champion's own "fight someone else first" step is waived on title fights, so a contender who has re-earned the shot is never blocked. A fighter who just lost the belt may always call for the rematch.

DEMAND THE REMATCH from the cage mic skips the wait, never the two-in-a-row or four-fight limits.

They are the hardware. Across each league day, every tier hands out three awards: FIGHT OF THE NIGHT for the best fight, KO OF THE NIGHT for the best knockout, and SUB OF THE NIGHT for the best submission. Both fighters in the fight of the night get it; the finisher gets the other two.

Right after your fight, the result screen may tell you your fight is being considered for one of them, as a STANDOUT FIGHT or STANDOUT FINISH. That is a nomination, not a win. The day's pool closes at the league day boundary and the awards are decided then, so a better fight later in the day can take it from you. Winners get a push and the award on their profile, their legacy, and the Hall.

Thrilling, back-and-forth fights and clean, dramatic finishes win awards. Cautious decisions do not.

Every fight sends a bill, and THE PAYOUT shows it next to the money: a DAMAGE row, a PERMANENT line under it, and a CONDITION row.

Condition is the tank. A fight drains it, it refills over time, and recovery items refill it faster. Low condition drags your stats down in the cage, and at zero the commissioner will not book you at all. HQ warns you as the meter leaves green.

Damage is the long-term wear. The bill follows the beating: a long war or a brutal loss costs more than a quick clean win, and a knockout loss stamps on extra damage that never heals. Part of every bill is permanent on the spot, shown as the dark part of the damage meter. The rest can be treated, but damage left untreated for long enough scars too. When the damage meter fills, your fighter is forced to retire.

A knockdown is a chance to end the fight on the spot. Most knockdowns do end it, because the fighter is out or the follow-up gets waved off. The rest is the knockdown the dropped fighter survives.

What happens next depends on who dropped them. A fighter whose game is on the mat follows them down and takes top position in the guard: a fighter on the GROUND plan always does, and a BALANCED or CLINCH fighter does when wrestling or ground skill is their strength. A pure STANDING fighter lets them up and resets at range. Either way the exchange ends there; the dropped fighter does not fire back in the same breath.

The tape says which happened: "follows them down and stays on top" or "scrambles back up". A survived knockdown still counts heavily on the scorecards, and two clear knockdowns in a round decide it.

After the verdict, your fighter gets the cage mic. AFTER THE BELL asks one question about the night and offers three answers in three tones: HUMBLE, HEEL, and UNHINGED. The fight is already over; the answer moves fans only, never the result.

Three things price the answer, and the screen reads them for you. THE ROOM is the mood the fight left: a coronation, a thriller, a robbery, a freefall. YOUR AURA is the reputation you walked in with, built from recent results, streaks, rank, and the belt. YOUR ACT is the persona you have been building. Each answer carries a read like PLAYS WELL or BACKFIRES before you pick, and saying nothing never costs.

Instead of answering, you can CALL SOMEONE OUT or DEMAND THE REMATCH. That sends a real callout, shouted in the building, and the target answers it from their inbox like any other.

The CORNER REPORT answers "did my fighter listen?" It appears on your result screen and your own fight recaps, and only you see your side of it. Spectators and your opponent never do.

The headline says how much of the night your fighter followed the corner. Under it is one row per round: the plan, aggression, and directive you called, how closely your fighter stuck to it, and a compact line of what they did (strikes thrown and landed, takedown shots, the tank at the bell). A round marked as drifting means your fighter started freelancing, and a footnote says why: deep into the fight, or an empty tank.

It reports intent, not results. Fighters drift off the plan as a fight wears on; Fight IQ and a head coach keep them on it. A BALANCED round has no plan to drift from.

Both count as the same method on the record, written KO/TKO, but they describe different endings.

A KO is a fighter put out by the strike itself. The punch or kick lands and the fight is over; the tape calls a clean one a walk-off when the loser never saw it coming.

A TKO is a referee stoppage. The fighter is still conscious but cannot defend themselves: a knockdown followed by shots they do not answer, ground and pound from top position, or a beating against the fence that the referee waves off. A leg kicked out from under a fighter who can no longer stand is a TKO too.

Your fight history and the event pages show which one it was for every fight since the split was added; older fights read KO/TKO. A knockout loss leaves a heavier mark on your fighter's damage, and that part never heals.

Every fight has a recap page, reached from a fighter's fight history, the FIGHT NIGHTS archive, or a ticker ticket. It shows both fighters with the WINNER tagged, the verdict, the judges' scorecards if it went the distance, and the complete play-by-play. If it was your fight you also get your payout, your rank movement, any award nomination, and your corner report.

The rank next to each name is the rank as booked, frozen when the fight was made: what each fighter held walking in, not where they stand today. It matches the arena header and the ticker, and it stays put as the rankings move afterwards. The champion's seat shows the trophy instead of a number, and a fighter with no billed rank shows none.

Your result screen's RANK row is different: it shows where you were before this fight and where you landed after it.