World Boxing Manager

World Boxing Manager is a boxing management game about developing young fighters and guiding their careers. You scout and recruit amateurs who come to train at your gym, then build their records through regional events until they are ready to compete for world titles. Your goal can be to develop a champion who unifies every title in their weight class.

Train your fighters

You can train individual stats or groups of stats to suit a chosen fighting style. Before a match, a fighter can enter a training camp, where gains come faster than with regular training but last only for that match. You balance this short-term preparation with the boxers’ permanent development, tailoring camps to their upcoming opponents.

Hiring trainers increases training-camp gains, but a trainer’s effectiveness falls when they have too many fighters to train. You decide how to prioritize their time. You also need to leave enough time before each match for your fighter to make weight; fighters differ in how quickly they can cut it.

Spar and learn

You can arrange training matches between any two of your fighters, whether they are amateurs or professionals, to see how they perform. Sparring is also the only way fighters can learn Traits, permanent boosts to their effectiveness. An amateur who knocks out one of your professionals may prove worth developing further.

Arrange matches

You set up bouts against fighters around the world. Winning brings in more money, while losing provides more experience, so you choose between easier opponents for income and tougher ones that can help your fighter climb the rankings faster. You can hire cable and pay-per-view networks to broadcast fights for extra money and exposure, though a loss can make this backfire.

Manage fight night

During bouts and between rounds, you call instructions to adjust your fighter’s approach. You can exploit an opponent’s weak jab by fighting from the outside, or target a weak chin by pressing close. After each match, statistics help you identify where your fighter needs to improve.