How to Create a Boxer from Scratch in Fight Night Champion

How to Access Create-A-Boxer

Open Boxer Share from the Fight Night Champion main menu and select Create a Boxer.

Create-A-Boxer still contains the local fighter creation tools even though some of the old online services associated with Boxer Share are no longer practical to use.

Start by choosing how you want to create the fighter’s head.

Create Your Boxer’s Appearance

Template Head

Template Head is the simplest way to create a boxer manually.

Choose one of the preset heads and then customise the fighter using the available appearance options.

Some facial characteristics are connected, so changing one area can affect the overall shape of the face. Make the larger adjustments first before fine-tuning individual details.

Legacy Photo Creation Options

Fight Night Champion originally supported photo-based boxer creation through camera and EA Sports web features.

Those systems depended on old EA hardware and online services, so they should now be treated as legacy features rather than a reliable method of creating a fighter.

For players using Fight Night Champion through Xbox backwards compatibility, Template Head is the practical starting point.

Save Before Continuing

Once the head and basic appearance look right, save the boxer before spending more time on the remaining customisation.

This is particularly useful after detailed facial editing because you can return through Boxer Share > Edit Boxers without rebuilding the fighter from scratch.

Set the Boxer’s Personal Details

Give the boxer a first name, surname, nickname and hometown.

Fight Night Champion includes selectable names and locations that can be announced during presentation sequences. You can also enter custom text when the exact option you want is unavailable.

Next, choose the fighter’s:

• Weight division
• Body type
• Hairstyle
• Facial hair

Set the broader appearance first and leave the smaller facial adjustments until afterwards. Changing several major features late in the process can make earlier facial work look different.

Customise the Entrance and Clothing

Create-A-Boxer includes separate options for the fighter’s ring presentation and equipment.

For the entrance, choose the presentation options and effects you want the boxer to use when walking to the ring.

You can also customise equipment including:

• Gloves
• Trunks
• Mouthpiece
• Socks
• Shoes
• Robe

Fight Night Champion includes licensed and EA-created equipment designs.

Tattoos can also be added to different areas of the boxer’s body. Check the placement carefully before confirming the design.

These cosmetic choices do not need to match the boxer’s fighting style, so they can be used purely to recreate a real fighter or give an original CAB a distinctive appearance.

Choose a Boxing Style

The Boxing Style setting determines the basic fighting behaviour used by your created boxer, particularly when the CPU controls them.

Fight Night Champion provides the following style presets:

• Boxer
• Counter Puncher
• Brawler
• Boxer Puncher
• Inside Fighter
• Outside Fighter
• Conventional
• Unconventional

Selecting a style also changes the starting Tendency configuration associated with that type of fighter.

This is different from choosing the strongest competitive build. If you are creating a boxer for online play, the dedicated boxer setup guide covers which styles and attributes are currently most effective.

Choose Stance, Block Style and Punch Style

Next, select the boxer’s Stance, Block Style and Punch Style.

Stance is particularly important because it determines whether the boxer fights orthodox or southpaw.

An orthodox boxer normally leads with the left hand and uses the right as the rear hand. A southpaw reverses those positions.

That distinction becomes important when you later allocate points to side-specific hooks and uppercuts because an effective punch setup can differ between orthodox and southpaw fighters.

Block Style and Punch Style mainly determine how the boxer visually performs those actions. Choose the animations that suit the fighter you are creating.

Adjust AI Tendency Sliders

Tendency sliders control how your boxer behaves when the AI is controlling them.

The selected Boxing Style provides a starting tendency preset, which you can then customise.

These tendencies influence behaviours such as how often the CPU-controlled boxer attacks, moves, counters or uses particular punches.

They are much less important when you personally control the fighter because your own inputs determine what the boxer does.

For that reason, I would not spend too much time perfecting tendencies for a boxer intended primarily for player-controlled fights.

Once the tendencies are set, check the previous creation categories before continuing.

Set Attributes and Save the Boxer

The final stage lets you assign the created boxer’s Abilities and Athleticism.

Abilities include ratings associated with individual punches and skills such as:

• Jab
• Straight
• Hooks
• Uppercuts
• Combination punching
• Head movement
• Blocking
• Chin
• Heart

Athletic attributes include areas such as:

• Strength
• Speed
• Endurance
• Conditioning
• Toughness
• Reflexes
• Cuts
• Swelling

The in-game descriptions explain what each category represents.

Avoid assigning these points randomly if the boxer will be used competitively. Attribute allocation has a major effect on how the fighter performs, and different stances and builds benefit from different distributions.

Use the Fight Night Champion boxer stats and setup guide for the recommended competitive allocation rather than treating the creation screen itself as a build guide.

Once everything is complete, press Start and save the boxer.

Your created fighter will then be available for use in the supported Fight Night Champion modes.