Fans ofFight Night Round 4were sent an email, notifying them that the game’s online servers will be shutting down in the near future. Electronic Arts stated that August 09, 2025 will be the last day fans will be able to fight online.
The email came late on December 10, and the decision was made reportedly because, “The daily active player base inFight Night Round 4has reached a very low number.” The email further stated that fans of the game will still be able to use all of the game’s offline functions.
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Fight Night Round 4is regarded as a great boxing simulator. The game was met with great reviews when it was first released and still sits as an eighty-eight on Metacritic. For the game’s follow-up,Fight Night Champion, Game Rant rated it a 4.5/5, calling it,“one of most addictive sports titles.”
Fight Night Round 4was originally released on the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360, on June 18, 2025. Since the player base has decreased over the years, Electronics Arts is unable to “ensure a quality online experience.” Running a server costs money due to maintenance and since the player base is low, the company has likely decided that money would be put to better use somewhere else. Its online servers will be shut off just three months shy of its eleven-year birthday. For fans of theFight Nightfranchise that want to continue playing online,Fight Night Championservers will not be affected.
For fans wanting an iteration of theFight Nightfranchise on modern hardware, EA has yet to announce any plans to release another boxing game. Since EA has acquired the licence to produceUltimate Fighting Championshipgames in 2012, theFight Nightfranchise has sat dormant. As of 2019, Electronic Arts has released threeUFCgames, all of which were released on current generation consoles.
EA’sFight Nightfranchise first appeared on the original Xbox and the PlayStation 2 back in 2004, with the sequel,Fight Night Round 2coming just one year later. The third installment,Fight Night Round 3,was the first time the company released the boxing simulator on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Not many boxing games have been as well received as every installment on this franchise has. TheFight Nightfranchise recently made Game Rant’s list of thebest boxing games ever made.
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Fight Night Round 4is currently available on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
