5 Essential Thrill Of The Fight Tips and Tricks To Become A Powerful Boxer

Thrill Of The Fight is a really intense game. It’s more of a simulation of boxing than some of its more arcade style counterparts, so learning how to fight well in Thrill Of The Fight is a lot like learning how to box well. Still, while there is some intersection of good boxing skills and good Thrill Of The Fight skills, there are some particulars to the game that good skill at boxing won’t get you.

Here we’ll cover 5 of the most essential Thrill Of The Fight tips and tricks to get you more knockouts and help you become a powerful boxer that can beat any of the opponents in this VR game on any difficulty level. You’ll even get a great workout while you’re at it, because Thrill Of The Fight is one of the greatest VR games for exercise out there.

1. Go For Weak Points - Thrill Of The Fight Tips and Tricks

If you just can’t seem to ever knock down your opponent in Thrill Of The Fight, then this tip will show you exactly why. You’ll notice that when you hit them a little splash of color accompanies every strike.

Landing a very effective hit on a weak point

You’ll often see that these little color splashes are grey, or maybe even yellow. If you get a really good hit then they’ll be orange or even red for maximum damage. Though if you’re really wailing on your opponent and landing hard hits, you might still just be doing grey or yellow damage.

Well hitting faster and harder always helps, but the main way to make sure your punches do as much damage as possible to your enemies are weak points. There is one in the center of the chest, one on their right side, one under the chin, two on either sides of the chin, and two on either sides of the head.

Hitting these weak points increases your damage by a lot, and if you really want to do enough to knock down your opponent you need to hit them. The best way to find out where exactly these weak points are, and practice hitting them, is the practice dummy.

The Practice Dummy in Thrill Of The Fight

Seriously, you have to use it at least once to get a feel for where to hit an opponent. Sure, the dummy doesn’t move, but a minute of practice swinging at it before you start fighting real fighters will increase your odds of hitting weak points a lot and is completely worth it.

If you want to knock your opponent down then a flurry of low damage blows isn’t the way to do it, focus on doing a lot of damage with a single punch.

2. Keep Your Hands Up - Thrill Of The Fight Tips and Tricks

The second thing you’ll need after a good offense that can actually knock out your opponent is a good defense so they don’t knock you down.

Blocking a punch in Thrill Of The Fight. Keep your hands up!

Luckily your hands are very effective at defending in Thrill Of The Fight. Hits bounce right off of them with ease, and so the best way to put up an effective defense is to just keep your hands up. If either of your hands isn’t punching then it should be covering your head.

Sure you can get hit in the body as well, but nothing will put you out of commission faster in a fight than a punch to the side of your skull, so keep those hands up.

Good footwork is also important, though it might not be as useful for you if your play space is very small. Even if you’re boxing in a space so small that you can’t move your feet, you can still benefit from moving your upper body and head around.

Dodging a punch in Thrill Of The Fight

Ducking and dodging out of the way of incoming blows is also a very effective defensive tactic, and you can also land a couple of hits on your opponent while you’re moving out of the way on their blow.

3. Damage Is Debilitating - Thrill Of The Fight Tips and Tricks

You’ll notice that your screen will go grey when you take a particularly nasty hit in Thrill Of The Fight. While luckily physical pain isn’t transferrable across a VR headset, this grey screen does show you how much you are hurt in the game.

After taking a bad hit your vision will go grey

Once your vision goes grey you should immediately break off any attack you’re doing and go on the defensive. One solid hit while your vision looks like this and you’ll probably end up on the floor of the arena.

You also deal less damage while you’re injured, so continuing to attack will probably be ineffective until you take a few seconds to recover and your vision returns to normal. All of your punches deal far less damage while you are hurt.

Though the same is true for the enemy fighter.

Ugly Joe after taking a really hard hit

After you land a particularly devastating blow you might notice that your opponent’s head starts wobbling. You also might notice that they attack you far less when they’re in this state, and will generally just block and take a few seconds to recover before trying to attack.

While they might still punch back depending on which fighter you’re fighting and which difficulty level you’re fighting them on, it’s a good idea to press an attack when you’ve already hit your enemy hard.

A fighter getting up after being knocked down. A few effective hits in succession can knock them down

Your damage will stack up on them, and the best way to knock down an enemy fighter is not to depend on a single hit, but to focus on several hard hits to weak points until they go down. You won’t have a lot of time to land another hit though, so go in and take your chance quickly before they recover and start attacking you back.

4. Low Damage Punches Are Still Important - Thrill Of The Fight Tips and Tricks

So a few high damage hits in a short period of time is the way to get a knockout on your opponent, but what about all of the places on their body that aren’t weak points? Well they’re not useless places to attack.

Hitting an enemy in the side can make them drop their guard

Sure getting a knockout with purely body shots is extremely difficult, though landing a hit in your opponents sides can still do some decent damage. What’s great about attacking low damage areas like the face or body is that your opponent will move their hands to block those areas after you hit them.

So if you land a devastating right hook on your enemy they will move their hands to protect the sides of their head, but you’ll need to land more high damage hits to knock them out. Their chin is open, but uppercuts are hard and maybe you’re not good at them.

A punch to the face can make your opponent change their guard

So just punch them in the face or body a couple of times. Soon they will move their guard and give you another opening to attack the weak points on their chin or the sides of their head.

Rotating your attacks will frustrate the enemy’s defense and give you a chance to hit weakpoints quickly in a short amount of time.

5. Pace Yourself And Take Breaks - Thrill Of The Fight Tips and Tricks

Of course even if you haven’t taken any damage in game your punches will still be ineffective if your actual body is physically exhausted.

Thrill Of The Fight is a really intense game, and it can make you tired very quickly if you’re not used to it. That’s why it’s important to take the previous tips to heart when planning your attacks. A few devastating and well aimed punches are less tiring than a bunch of weak and ineffective punches.

Swinging and doing hardly any damage will just tire you out

If you’re starting to get winded during a fight then go defensive. If you want to win your odds of hitting, blocking, and dodging effectively go way down when you’re tired. So unless you’ve only got a little time left and really need to get a knockout quickly to win you can give yourself a breather and just focus on not getting hit for a while.

It’s also important to drink plenty of water because Thrill Of The Fight is a workout no matter how you play it and will make you sweat. Feel free to cool down a bit between matches and walk around in circles for a bit and maybe do some basic stretches to stay limber.

Thrill Of The Fight is a fantastic game, but it will be no fun if you’re struggling to breathe. Wipe the sweat off of your face and out of your eyes and give yourself a breather before jumping back in.

Anyway those are all of the Thrill Of The Fight tips and tricks we’ve got for you today. Hopefully you can take them and use them to become an even better boxer in the ring. Best of luck and enjoy!

Oh, and if you want some more tips on Thrill Of The Fight then check out our knockout guide. We’ve also got some tips for each opponent in the game, and you might find something you’d like to read in any of the other articles on this fantastic boxing simulator.