From what I'm seeing the ability to "call out" other fighters is in fact not a thing. I don't understand why you have to wait for the game to prompt you before you can start a rivalry (without knocking somebody out in the gym or turning down a fight against them)
On another note the same goes for weight class changes. I don't see why we can't change every few fights or after a couple losses with the added penalty of maybe losing ranking spots or not being ranked in the new weight class.
I don't get why these are things we need to wait for the game to decide on before they can be done by the player. This was advertised as completely unscripted, yet what I just mentioned is the exact definition of scripted.
When another fighter "tweets" you on social media and you respond to start a rivalry, that's not the player calling them out. That's them calling the player out, and the player responding. It doesn't make sense that we can't use the exact same system we use to build connections with other fighters to call fighters out also.
Also the call-out system is backwards, when you're a contender everybody is calling you out. Yet as a champ I've racked up ten defenses and haven't had a rivalry in like eight fights or had anybody take jabs at me on social media.
Same goes for weight class changes, why can't we use some of our weekly points to tease a weight change and after a fight or two get offered fights up or down a division depending on what we chose. It's too much of a Conor McGregor simulator, why do you have to win the belt and challenge another champ to change weights when so many fighters go up and down based on their career trajectory?
