nicksmith March 9, 2009 PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 9 views Comments Print This Post  Email This Post

Boxing fans like myself have spent countless hours debating who is the greatest of all time and who would win a fight between the greats throughout history. We have been able to simulate many of these matchups in video games for years. One name that has been absent from these digital matchups has been Mike Tyson.

Over the years “Iron” Mike has been knocked out by Mac in Punch-Out and battled name fighters like David Tua, Frans Botha, and Chris Byrd in the digital boxing rings. Those names hardly fulfilled the boxing fantasy matchups we have conjoured up over the years.

This is all about to change in Fight Night Round 4 by EA due out at the end of July this year. The dream matchup of Mike Tyson vs Muhammad Ali is featured in the trailer for the game as well as the cover for the game. We have the trailer, the box art, and the full release below.

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Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced today that “The Greatest of All Time”, Muhammad Ali, and “Iron” Mike Tyson will share the cover of one of the most anticipated games of 2009, Fight Night Round 4. Fan voting on www.AliorTyson.com started in late December 2008 and the final results favored having both legends together on the cover. Fight Night Round 4 is being developed under the EA SPORTS™ brand by EA Canada in Vancouver, B.C and will ship to retailers worldwide this summer.

Muhammad Ali, the most celebrated boxer of all time, was famous for his quick tongue and his even quicker hands that wore down his opponents fight after fight. Ali was the first fighter in history to win the undisputed heavyweight championship three times, and is highly revered for his contribution to the sport of boxing. Mike Tyson, a knock out legend, will join Ali on the cover. The youngest boxer ever to win a heavyweight championship, Tyson enthralled the world with his precision, power, and ability to put away his opponents in the first round. These two boxing icons finally come face to face in Fight Night Round 4.

“I’m honored to be on the cover of Fight Night Round 4 with Ali. He was a special champ, and I have the highest respect for him as a person and a fighter” said Tyson. “People always ask me if I think I would have beaten Ali if I had the chance to fight him when we were both in our prime. Now you can figure it out for yourselves. Fight Night puts you right in that ring and gives you the gloves to settle the score.”

The addition of Mike Tyson to Fight Night Round 4 fills a hole in videogame rosters that has existed for almost a decade. Users will finally be able to fight as ‘Iron Mike’, or fight against him as one of many other all time greats. Promising to revolutionize the fighting genre, Fight Night Round 4 features an all new physics based gameplay engine that brings the most authentic interpretation of the sweet science to the videogame world. The action inside the ring will be faster than ever, delivering a true representation of the sport’s incredible speed, accuracy, timing, and power. Fight Night Round 4 allows you to create dozens of legendary match ups, including Tyson vs. Ali, with unprecedented realism.

Consumers can step into the ring sooner with GameStops’s exclusive pre-order program. By pre-ordering Fight Night Round 4 at their local Gamestop, or online at www.gamestop.com, fans will receive early access to the game’s demo. The game will be available for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360®™ video game system from Microsoft. This game has not yet been rated by the ESRB or PEGI. For more information, log onto http://fightnight.easports.com.