Development and Health
Separate POT, reachable upside, monthly growth, postfight learning, injuries, permanent damage, decline, and retirement.
A fighter's career changes through growth, preparation, damage, aging, and opportunity. No single number describes all five.
OVR, POT, and reachable upside
OVR is current overall ability. POT is the stored lifetime ceiling. The stars show current ability with additional potential, and pressing the rating reveals exact values.
Age matters. Once a fighter passes their personal peak, the visible potential treatment narrows toward what is still realistically reachable. The raw POT can remain high even when time has closed much of the path.
POT is not a guaranteed destination. Existing attribute level, age, peak timing, activity, training context, and development events all affect the outcome.
Two forms of improvement
Training camp creates temporary bonuses for the booked fight. It is six weeks at full length and emphasizes up to three chosen attributes plus supplementary work.
Permanent development changes the base fighter. The world applies growth and decline on monthly boundaries, and bouts can produce learning based on what happened in the fight. Improvements become harder as attributes rise and as a fighter moves beyond the growth window.
Injuries and recovery
Fights can create injuries that make a boxer unavailable for a period. The roster status and injury report show the current recovery state. The Medical Bay modifies recovery speed.
Recovery from an injury is not the same as removing all career damage. A healed boxer can return to action while still carrying permanent wear from previous fights.
Permanent career health
The fighter screen tracks Punch Wear, Vision, and Hand Condition. These values reflect lasting damage and do not recover through ordinary rest or a facility upgrade. Serious injuries can also apply permanent attribute damage.
Protecting a career therefore means more than avoiding a current injury. Repeated punishment, knockout losses, and difficult late career fights can shorten the useful window.
Decline and retirement
Each fighter has an individual peak age. Physical, technical, and mental areas do not all decline in the same way. Career health, age, record, recent results, and accumulated damage can contribute to retirement pressure.
Use the attribute history and recent fight reports to identify the turn. A veteran with a famous name and high raw POT may already be moving backward.