page_title: Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2
section_title: Development
hierarchical_section_title: Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2 / Development
caption_attribution_description: English: Michael Jackson at the Cannes film festival.
context_page_description: Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2 is a boxing game for the Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and Game Boy Advance. It is also the sequel to Ready 2 Rumble Boxing.
context_section_description: News from Midway's sequel to Ready 2 Rumble Boxing were first made public back in early summer of 1999 and in May 2000, showed off the game at that year's E3 for demonstration. It was here that Midway announced that the game would receive a PlayStation 2 release. In September 2000 the game was previewed for public demonstrating at that year's ECTS. That same month images and screenshots of two of the game's secret characters were unveiled: Shaquille O'Neal and Michael Jackson. It was stated that Jackson was motion captured and digitally photographed for his character, and also lent his own voice to his character, albeit at a lower register than his usual speaking voice. Midway released the PlayStation 2 version on October 23 to coincide with the release of the PlayStation 2. As with the previous game, Michael Buffer appears in the game as himself. The game's roster also features then U.S. President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton, credited respectively only as "Mr. President" and "The First Lady".
  Due to hardware restrictions, several characters had to be cut from the Nintendo 64 version, namely Freak E. Deke, Wild "Stubby" Corley, Freedom Brock, G.C. Thunder, Robox Rese-4 and Rumbleman.
caption: Michael Jackson (picture in 1998) allowed for his likeness to be used for the game.
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