If Fighters Inc. should be suing anyone, it should be the boxers who have accepted the EA deal outside of the group licensing contract.

But I guess the boxers can punch lawyers a lot harder than John Riccitiello can.

Sounds like typical boxing bullshit

Knockout Kings 2000 is still the best boxing game ever imo aside Punch-Out!!

I have not played this game.

"The suit accuses EA of deliberately "undermining the interests" of boxers by signing them to individual contracts"

It seems to me that EA did nothing wrong. If anyone broke the law here, it would be the boxers who signed the contracts because perhaps the fighters club they're in says that they have to liscence themselves through the group liscensing program.

Other than that, signing someone to a contract that benefits you more than them is not illegal.

I bet that this group might be punishing the boxers privately rather than embarrassing them publicly with a fine or something, which happens all the time in other sports. We don't know half the crap that star athletes do as it gets covered up and dealt with privately in most instances. From what I can tell, it looks like EA knowingly interfered with these contracts and dangled money in front of these guys to break this organization, kind of like union busting which legal 101 tells me is against the law. Large corporate arrogant cats with deep pockets cannot knowingly push others out of biz by getting people to break contracts, that seems to be what is a stake here. Boxers get no endorsement opportunities because they don't have any collective entity pushing their best interests as a group like other sports have, the UFC does a great job for it's guy collectively and look at all their endorsements and extra income. This can only help boxing, and if boxing gets stronger again then EA will more Fight Night copies.