LEATHER®251

Become a rookie boxing manager with something to prove, working to establish a stable of talented fighters to take on the world - in LEATHER(R): Tactical Boxing Management.

Recruit promising young amateurs, established professionals or retired veterans, challenge favourable opponents, and train your fighters for upcoming bouts. Fights are won or lost depending on the strategy and tactics you devise, so it’s crucial to analyse both your combatant and your opponent to create the correct fight plan. Winning bouts will move your boxer up their respective weight division rankings, to eventually challenge for the world championship belt itself.

But the boxing world is a slippery one; losing bouts will delay your ability to challenge others, ruining your momentum and allowing other promising stars to challenge your position. Suffering injuries during bouts will lower your boxer’s subsequent fitness, meaning they will be less effective in the next bout unless given time to rest and recuperate. Boxers you seek revenge upon might shift weight division, foiling your plans for immediate payback.

Different boxers peak at different stages during their careers, and as time passes your boxers will age and their abilities will wane. Young, fresh-faced opponents will rise through the ranks to challenge your dominance, and wily old campaigners will battle on long passed their best, eager to show they’ve still got it.

The path to glory is not always clear, and it is up to you how you form your fighters’ careers. Do you ambitiously rush them up through the rankings - challenging as high as you can each time, or do you favour a steadier approach - building your boxer’s skills over more contests? Do you favour the breathless punch exchanges of the lower weight divisions, or the thudding power of the heavier ones? Will you dominate in one weight division for a decade, or will you shift your fighters from division to division, capturing as many titles as possible before their skills begin to wane? Do you allow your recruits to retire undefeated at the peak of their powers, or do you keep ushering them on for one more tilt at the big time, long after their abilities have deteriorated?

The choice is yours; there’s no end-game in LEATHER(R). The only definition of glory is your own.

Version History * Added Sports Psychologist support staff type.
* Removed the morale effect from coaches.
* Added Career Footnotes section to bout history screen.
* Added individual round punch stats to bout corner screen.
* Decreased downward challenge restriction weeks.
* Extremely high personality type values are now more rare. 251 Jun 18 * Added Sports Psychologist support staff type.
* Removed the morale effect from coaches.
* Added Career Footnotes section to bout history screen.
* Added individual round punch stats to bout corner screen.
* Decreased downward challenge restriction weeks.
* Extremely high personality type values are now more rare. 249 Jun 10 * Added Sports Psychologist support staff type.
* Removed the morale effect from coaches.
* Added Career Footnotes section to bout history screen.
* Added individual round punch stats to bout corner screen.
* Decreased downward challenge restriction weeks.
* Extremely high personality type values are now more rare. 248 May 25 * Added 'Compare' feature to compare two boxers attributes side-by-side.
* Added fightplan choice to use a specific arm for counterpunches.
* Reduced HOF retired years from 5 to 3.
* Support staff profile now shows their cpu gym.
* Boxers who have been asked to retire will stay retired.
* Increased effect of inferior reach at long range.
* Added Option for Exhibition Mode referee injury tolerance.
* All tournament fights - whether the final or not - requires sanctioning fees. 236 07/08/2025 * Added 'Compare' feature to compare two boxers attributes side-by-side.
* Added fightplan choice to use a specific arm for counterpunches.
* Reduced HOF retired years from 5 to 3.
* Support staff profile now shows their cpu gym.
* Boxers who have been asked to retire will stay retired.
* Increased effect of inferior reach at long range.
* Added Option for Exhibition Mode referee injury tolerance.
* All tournament fights - whether the final or not - requires sanctioning fees. 235 07/01/2025 * Added 'Compare' feature to compare two boxers attributes side-by-side.
* Added fightplan choice to use a specific arm for counterpunches.
* Reduced HOF retired years from 5 to 3.
* Support staff profile now shows their cpu gym.
* Boxers who have been asked to retire will stay retired.
* Increased effect of inferior reach at long range.
* Added Option for Exhibition Mode referee injury tolerance.
* All tournament fights - whether the final or not - requires sanctioning fees. 233 06/24/2025 * Added 'Compare' feature to compare two boxers attributes side-by-side.
* Added fightplan choice to use a specific arm for counterpunches.
* Reduced HOF retired years from 5 to 3.
* Support staff profile now shows their cpu gym.
* Boxers who have been asked to retire will stay retired.
* Increased effect of inferior reach at long range.
* Added Option for Exhibition Mode referee injury tolerance.
* All tournament fights - whether the final or not - requires sanctioning fees. 230 06/23/2025 * Added Gym Finances screen - shows every earning and expense transaction your gym has.
* Added facility to save/load custom training camp priorities.
* Added option to apply Fitness depletion from training camp options.
* Added option for 15 round title fights.
* Added option to reduce speed of fight playback when knockdowns occur.
* Moved some options to be game-specific settings.
* Added Support Staff Watchlist facility. 170 04/25/2024 * Added Gym Finances screen - shows every earning and expense transaction your gym has.
* Added facility to save/load custom training camp priorities.
* Added option to apply Fitness depletion from training camp options.
* Added option for 15 round title fights.
* Added option to reduce speed of fight playback when knockdowns occur.
* Moved some options to be game-specific settings.
* Added Support Staff Watchlist facility. 169 04/21/2024 * Added Gym Finances screen - shows every earning and expense transaction your gym has.
* Added facility to save/load custom training camp priorities.
* Added option to apply Fitness depletion from training camp options.
* Added option for 15 round title fights.
* Added option to reduce speed of fight playback when knockdowns occur.
* Moved some options to be game-specific settings.
* Added Support Staff Watchlist facility. 168 04/02/2024 * Added boxer fight history colour labelling of results.
* Fixed bug where women's unified and undisputed champion achievements weren't working properly.
* World title holders shifting weight division will shift to no less than rank 10.
* All boxers have a career earnings value shown on their profile.
* Added P4P records screen for largest total career earnings. 158 11/01/2023 * Completely re-engineered fight judging logic
* On Ringside screen injuries are colour-coded to indicate their severity
* Added paid concentrated training to decrease/increase weight in the heavyweight division
* Added Precocity attribute to exhibition mode, that governs the coached development uptake of young boxers
* Can now transfer career mode boxers and support staff into the exhibition mode 154 06/01/2023 * Completely re-engineered fight judging logic
* On Ringside screen injuries are colour-coded to indicate their severity
* Added paid concentrated training to decrease/increase weight in the heavyweight division
* Added Precocity attribute to exhibition mode, that governs the coached development uptake of young boxers
* Can now transfer career mode boxers and support staff into the exhibition mode
* Various bugfixes 153 05/22/2023 * New Support Staff type: Talent Scouts
* Targeting tactics now specific to each range
* During training camps boxers can suffer small injuries, that deplete Fitness a small amount
* Added amateur record editor and 1, 4, 5 minute rounds in exhibition mode
* Adjustment to close range punch damage and energy loss
* Body punching damage nerf
* Long range body punching combinations are smaller 146 09/26/2022 * New Support Staff type: Talent Scouts
* Targeting tactics now specific to each range
* During training camps boxers can suffer small injuries, that deplete Fitness a small amount
* Added amateur record editor and 1, 4, 5 minute rounds in exhibition mode
* Adjustment to close range punch damage and energy loss
* Body punching damage nerf
* Long range body punching combinations are smaller 145 09/22/2022 * Added amateur records and competition wins to boxers. This is for flavour, but does have a positive effect on the boxer's Appeal.
* Added new Sanctioning Body, the Multinational Boxing Organisation, and a new world title for it.
* Boxer personality values are now shown, rather than purely a sentence that describes them.
* Tournaments will now occur for lower level titles.
* Overhaul of fight footwork. 138 06/23/2022 * Added amateur records and competition wins to boxers. This is for flavour, but does have a positive effect on the boxer's Appeal.
* Added new Sanctioning Body, the Multinational Boxing Organisation, and a new world title for it.
* Boxer personality values are now shown, rather than purely a sentence that describes them.
* Tournaments will now occur for lower level titles.
* Overhaul of fight footwork. 137 06/16/2022 * New boxer profile sub-screen (tap the boxer style classification): houses personality, wear and tear, and grudges.
* Can create support staff in exhibition mode, and transfer them into career mode.
* New cheat: change nickname to RECRUITABLE - allows contract offers to otherwise unavailable boxers.
* New cut resistance value can be edited in exhibition mode boxers.
* Watchlist boxers highlighted in newsfeed, plus new option to view their fight cards.
* Reduced clinch effectiveness. 131 03/16/2022 * Added choice to offer step-aside money instead of rejecting a challenge. The challenger then has to accept/decline this step-aside offer.
* Added shortlist of boxers facility for player gyms: called 'Watchlist'. You can add boxers you're interested in keeping an eye on.
* Added "Skip Round" button to skip seeing the action and just jump straight to the end of the round.
* Added breakdown of expenses on post-match earnings screen. 126 01/12/2022 * During new game creation can choose to use male or female boxers.
* Numbered bouts: Adding "II" or "III" to fight card bouts to indicate rematches.
* Named fights: occassionally big fights will now have a name bestowed upon them.
* Added new Record section: Title Defences.
* Fitness loss calculation following bouts has been tweaked.
* Simplified bout volume options. 124 11/10/2021 * New boxer personality and career fitness loss summaries underneath bout history
* Adjusted taxation calculation
* Fight decision announcement commentary upgrade
* Added Switch-Hitting to fight plans
* Added accidental slips to fights
* Added experimental saved game export/import 120 09/16/2021 * New boxer personality and career fitness loss summaries underneath bout history
* Adjusted taxation calculation
* Fight decision announcement commentary upgrade
* Added Switch-Hitting to fight plans
* Added accidental slips to fights
* Added experimental saved game export/import 119 09/05/2021 * Added CUSTOMISER to edit names of titles, sanctioning bodies, venues, rival gyms.
* New option to reveal your boxers' weekly ringcraft changes.
* Boxers in the 20s ranks can challenge up/down within those ranks.
* New overdraft facility.
* Added pundit unofficial scorecard option.
* All boxers now have a unique metabolism - coping with the demands of weight management differently.
* Added a new lower level title: "Continental". 112 05/20/2021 * Can choose new saved game start year.
* Can spectate CPU vs. CPU bouts.
* Added buffs to Footwork and Jab (reach and range control). 99 02/17/2021 * Player boxers will be highlighted in orange in the newsfeed.
* Redesigned hub screen.
* Adjusted contract buy-out calculations.
* Adjusted loading bar visuals. 95 02/07/2021