Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn is asking EA Sports to revive Fight Night, a popular fighting video game series, as revealed in an interview with Hearn from TheBoxingVoice and reported by The Sun.
Hearn tweeted at EA Sports asking the company to re-release the game in October 2019. The company has since told Hearn that the company is considering his suggestion, Hearn
Hearn reports that he contacted EA Sports because he gets so many questions about the game series. He says during the interview that he requested that EA Sports let him bring the series back, implying that he has interest in perhaps producing a revival.
Trying to convince @EASPORTS - would be huge
— Eddie Hearn (@EddieHearn) October 11, 2018
EA Sports Fight Night 2020?
"They've got to," Hearn said in the interview, referring to the possibility of EA making a new game for the series. "Because every time I tweet about [Fight Night], it goes crazy."
The most recent installment to the series—which has graced the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3, and iOS devices in the past— was Fight Night Champion in 2011.
Hearns reiterated the need for EA Sports to make the re-release a reality.
"EA Sports, if you’re watching, or any big game developer: We’re here, Fight Night, let’s go," he said. "It’s going to be number one!”
