Pound for Pound GamesMar 20, 2026$19.99USView on Steam ↗

Pound for Pound: MMA Promotion Simulator

Run your own MMA promotion. Sign fighters, book cards, manage contracts, and build a combat sports empire in a deep, procedurally generated MMA management sim.

Strategy Early Access Simulation Sports Sandbox Management Tutorial Singleplayer

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Estimated lifetime revenueMedium confidence

$119.2Kgross

$53.6Klow → high range$262.3K

Net to developer$79.3K

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5.7K

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About the game

Pound for Pound is a deep MMA promotion sim where you start from nothing and build your way to the top. Sign unknown fighters, book smart matchups, grow your brand, and try to become the biggest MMA organization in the world while rival promotions fight you for talent, dates, and dominance.

Build Your Promotion From the Ground Up

You control the business behind the fights.

Sign and manage fighters, negotiate contracts, develop talent, build divisions, schedule events, choose venues, and decide when your promotion is ready to take the next step.

Start small. Fill local venues. Build stars. Expand your roster. Unlock new weight classes, bigger events, better opportunities, sponsorships, TV deals, and new territories as your organization grows.

Fighters Are More Than Stats

Fighters build relationships with your promotion over time. Treat them well and they may become loyal, easier to re-sign, and more willing to take risks for you. Ignore their careers, underpay them, break promises, or leave them waiting too long, and that loyalty can disappear.

Fighters can demand title shots, rematches, hometown bookings, main-card placement, pay raises, release requests, or specific opponents. Some requests are reasonable. Some are political. Some come with deadlines.

How you handle them shapes your locker room.

Deep Fight Simulation, Styles Make Fights

Every matchup is driven by fighter attributes, tendencies, style, and career development.

Wrestlers can smother dangerous strikers. Pressure fighters can overwhelm patient counter punchers. Veterans may decline. Prospects may break through. Champions can rise, dominate, and eventually fall.

Build contenders. Protect investments. Create stars. Shape divisions that develop history over years of play.

Negotiate Like a Promoter

Booking fights is not always as simple as offering a bout.

Fighters react based on personality, career position, risk, money, rivalries, teammate conflicts, title paths, short notice, and bad blood. Some will jump at a grudge match. Others will push back, demand more, or refuse unless the offer fits their goals.

You can make promises to close difficult deals: a title shot with a win, a rematch after a loss, a home-region fight, a main-card spot, or a specific future opponent.

But promises matter. Break them, and fighters remember.

Build Your Story

Fighters rise from unknown prospects to contenders, champions, and legends. Rivalries form. Title lineages grow. Divisions evolve. Stars leave, decline, return, or demand their moment.

Your decisions create the history of your promotion.

Who did you build? Who did you betray? Which fights defined your era?

A Competitive World.

You’re not alone.

Other promotions are chasing the same prospects, booking their own events, targeting key dates, and building their own legacies. Fighters have options. Momentum matters. Talent can slip away if you are not paying attention.

Stay ahead or get left behind.

Reviews

Player reviews (82)

Not recommended57h played30 found helpfulAug 2026

[h1]Pound for Pound — an MMA promotion simulator that turns into a clicker[/h1] Pound for Pound is genuinely interesting during its early stages. You choose your divisions, sign your first fighters, learn their attributes and styles, and start building careers from 0-0-0. Every fighter can feel like a name and a personality rather than another number on an event card. You can build rivalries, plan title runs, negotiate sponsors and TV contracts, expand into new states and venues, and chase historical records. And it is genuinely fun. [b]At first.[/b] Unfortunately, the deeper you get into the game, the more it stops being a promotion management simulator and starts becoming a clicker. [h2]Mandatory progression kills the sandbox[/h2] The tutorial/progression system cannot be disabled, even if you already know the game. You must hold your first event, sign fighters, crown a champion, and complete increasingly specific objectives to unlock higher reputation tiers and upgrades. There are no proper alternative starting modes. No full sandbox. No option to start as an already-funded promotion and simply build the roster you want. Want to run a highly competitive two-division promotion? Too bad. Higher reputation tiers eventually require more divisions, champions, events and title defenses. You can have packed venues and excellent fighters, but still hit an artificial progression ceiling until you complete the required objectives. And if your reputation falls, you have to grind it back. This is not meaningful management. It is a checklist. [h2]Huge rosters, almost no proper automation[/h2] The game has 14 divisions: 5 women's and 9 men's. If you create five divisions with only 10 fighters each, you already have 50 fighters to manage. There is a Smart Fill system, but it primarily considers fighter popularity and matchup hype. It does not understand the stories, rankings, contender structure or fights you actually want to book. Want to build a logical title picture? Do it manually. Want a larger card? Do it manually. Want to manage all 14 divisions with roughly 150 fighters, which is apparently normal for AI promotions? Good luck. Eventually you are booking fighter #137 against fighter #94 on event #298 and wondering who either of them even is. At that point, fighters stop feeling like characters. TV contracts make this worse by requiring events every four weeks. Injuries can keep fighters out for 8+ weeks, while contracts are short and must be renewed manually. There are no proper long-term contracts or automatic renewals. The AI can run enormous promotions while the player manually micromanages everything. This is where the game stops being a manager and starts being a clicker. [h2]Some of the simulation is fundamentally broken[/h2] The world simulation can produce impossible historical data. Other promotions apparently start generating history from 2016. In my save, a champion who supposedly won his title in 2016 was reported in 2032 as having held it for roughly [b]11,000 days[/b]. That's about 30 years. The fighter himself was around 37. So apparently a six-year-old won a world championship. This isn't a balance issue. The numbers are simply impossible. The game is also poor at explaining its own mechanics. Fighter styles, primary and secondary styles, important attributes, strengths and weaknesses against other styles — much of this is poorly explained. Fighter development is similarly unclear. There is no meaningful visible potential system, so you often don't know whether an average fighter can actually become exceptional. Scouting is especially strange. There is no proper trial, sparring or scouting system that lets you evaluate a fighter before signing them. Instead, you often need cooperation with gyms to reveal information about fighters. And those gyms can apparently reveal information about fighters belonging to other promotions. It doesn't feel like a believable scouting system. It feels like a workaround. [h2]Fighter popularity is absurd[/h2] In my save, there was a 37-year-old fighter with a [b]45-10-0[/b] record. The game considered her a [b]Prospect[/b]. The #1 fighter on the longest win-streak leaderboard had [b]23-0-0[/b]. He was also a [b]Prospect[/b]. Do you know real-world fighters with 23 consecutive wins who are still prospects? I don't. My own fighter eventually reached [b]35-0-0[/b], became #1 in the world in two divisions, won two championships, accumulated [b]25 title defenses out of 27 title fights[/b], competed in [b]32 Main Events[/b], and dominated highly ranked opponents. The game considered her a [b]Superstar[/b]. Not an Icon. A Superstar. At that point, the popularity system is impossible to take seriously. [h2]The fight rating system is even worse[/h2] You can have A+ matchup hype, a sold-out arena, highly ranked fighters, hundreds of significant strikes, knockdowns and a genuine war. The game can still give the fight a [b]D[/b]. Most commonly, C. If you're lucky, B. A ratings seem almost nonexistent. In my save, a #7 fighter knocked out a #5 fighter in [b]21 seconds[/b]. The game gave it a [b]B+[/b]. Think about Conor McGregor vs. José Aldo. A 13-second finish doesn't automatically mean a bad fight. Sometimes the shock and significance of the finish are exactly what make a fight historic. Pound for Pound doesn't seem to understand this. Fight ratings feel disconnected from popularity, hype, statistics, significance and what actually happened inside the fight. [h2]The rematch system makes no sense[/h2] The game heavily penalizes rematches if they happen within roughly a year. Try a rematch after six, eight or twelve months and the game clearly disapproves. After only a few months, the penalty is even worse. This is especially strange because the game has a rivalry system that can create situations where an immediate rematch makes perfect sense. Real MMA has had plenty of high-profile rematches only months after the first fight. The game essentially reduces this to a timer: [b]same fighters = wait roughly 1.2 years.[/b] Context does not matter enough. [h2]Eventually, the game becomes a clicker[/h2] And this is the biggest problem. Eventually you are clicking: [list] [*]to get tokens; [*]to fulfill contracts; [*]to maintain TV schedules; [*]to avoid reputation penalties; [*]to satisfy progression objectives; [*]to create another event; [*]to use Smart Fill; [*]and repeat. [/list] The player is supposed to build stories, but the late game increasingly forces you to produce events rather than manage a promotion. The more divisions and fighters you have, the worse it gets. The more successful you become, the more arbitrary progression requirements you encounter. That is the fundamental contradiction of the game. [h2]Final thoughts[/h2] Pound for Pound has [b]real potential[/b]. Its early game can be genuinely excellent. Building a fighter from 0-0-0, watching them develop, creating rivalries and eventually seeing them win a championship can be extremely satisfying. The game gradually stops being about creating your own MMA history and starts being about satisfying arbitrary requirements. It needs fundamental improvements: [list] [*]proper sandbox and alternative starting modes; [*]optional progression objectives; [*]much better automation for large rosters; [*]proper scouting and fighter development; [*]clearer explanations of styles; [*]a complete overhaul of fighter popularity and fight ratings; [*]a smarter rematch system; [*]better contract management; [*]progression that rewards successful management instead of forcing a predefined grind. [/list] I had a lot of fun with Pound for Pound. But the deeper I got into it, the more it stopped feeling like an MMA management simulator and started feeling like a clicker with an MMA theme. [b]I recommend it as an early-game sandbox, but not as a long-term MMA management simulator.[/b]

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Pound for Pound: MMA Promotion Simulator

About the game

Build Your Promotion From the Ground Up

Fighters Are More Than Stats

Deep Fight Simulation, Styles Make Fights

Negotiate Like a Promoter

Build Your Story

A Competitive World.

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