Alright, you armchair pugilists. Fight Night Champion has a whole bunch of updates including a patch addressing gameplay and enough new boxers to make even Don King happy. The update and DLC went live March 29, 2011.

One of the main issues the patch deals with is punch accuracy, an important part of any boxing title. The punch accuracy is now toned down a bit and tracking accounts for the increased difficulty of trying to hit a moving target. Boxers will now show greater effect from being clocked with a punch while throwing a punch of their own. Online play suffered from a major glitch that would actually stop an opponent’s command inputs if a player executed a perfect block, and the patch addresses that problem as well. Other adjustments in this patch increase the damage from punches and award more damage for combinations of punches.

EA Sports is going into new forbidden uncharted risky territory with Fight Night Champion, which will be the publisher’s first Mature-rated title.

The series has never been shy about portraying face smashing punches in gory slow motion detail. The “M” rating will allow EA to get even more graphic with the body blows, shots to the head and, according to EA, the rating is not just because of the brutal violence associated with the sport. The game will also contain mature content found in the “lifestyle and culture of boxing.”

EA Sports’ control system overhaul for Fight Night Champion will not include Kinect or PlayStation Move. In an interview with Eurogamer, Gameplay producer Brian Hayes said the physical rigors of boxing three minutes per round would be “beyond the fitness level of most gamers.”

To use the vernacular of the sport it portrays, Fight Night Round 4 got knocked out in 2009. A new analog control scheme drew applause from many longtime fans but was largely reviled by casual players. EA later released a patch that brought back button mapped punching, but it proved too little, too late. The legendary fighters never stay down for long, however. EA Sports has announced the next game in the series, Fight Night Champion. Initial images suggest EA is pushing the bloodier aspects of the sport.

Both the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live have received some big updates for boxing simulation Fight Night Round 4 in a new “Champions Pack.”

It adds Evander Holyfield, Sonny Liston and Bernard Hopkins as playable boxers and there are two new game modes: Old School Rules and Ring Rivalries. The content went live December 2009 but the Xbox 360 Champions Pack began freezing consoles immediately. EA Sports then pulled the pack until those issues were fixed.

If you downloaded the broken content, your Xbox Live account retains your purchase data and you won’t need to pay for it again.