EA SPORTS UFC 5 Trophy Guide: Road to Platinum
To unlock every trophy in EA SPORTS UFC 5, you need to complete 32 achievements across Career Mode, timed Fight Week challenges, online seasons, and specific in-ring combat moves.

To unlock every trophy in EA SPORTS UFC 5, you need to complete 32 achievements across Career Mode, timed Fight Week challenges, online seasons, and specific in-ring combat moves. The total list consists of 1 Platinum, 6 Gold, 9 Silver, and 16 Bronze awards, requiring roughly 15 to 20 hours depending on your online matchmaking.
The full achievement list is documented on the TrueAchievements walkthrough overview, which details the exact unlock criteria across all 32 milestones. While offline bouts can be cleared entirely on the easiest difficulty setting, certain awards demand synchronization with live pay-per-view events or sustained win streaks against human opponents.
How Do You Clear Fight Week Trophies?
Fight Week is a live-service challenge window scheduled directly alongside real-world UFC pay-per-view cards. According to the EA SPORTS UFC 5 news update, the live service runs alongside UFC numbered events, rotating in fresh challenges and pick'ems.
Three specific trophies are tied to this mode:
- What Could Go Wrong?: Make picks for an upcoming Fight Week matchup through the main menu tab.
- You Have My Attention: Complete a single Fight Week challenge.
- Easy Work: Unlock all 10 challenges featured during a single Fight Week.
Challenges typically include requirements such as landing 75 body punches, defending 4 takedown attempts, or securing 10 knockouts. Progress counts in career mode, contract fights, and multiplayer matchups. In-game currency can also be spent to skip specific objectives if an event window is close to expiring. Once you finish all 10 tasks, return to the Fight Week challenges tab to trigger Easy Work.
What Are the Key Trophies in Career Mode?
Career Mode contains eight dedicated trophies centered on climbing the ranks from amateur brawls to reaching legendary status. Running this mode on Easy difficulty ensures faster knockouts, clean training grades, and safe longevity management.
The primary Career Mode milestones include:
- Slice vs. Dreads: Enter the Backyard during the opening fight of the mode.
- The Best There Is: Upgrade any strike or submission technique by repeatedly using it in training drills or bouts.
- No Rizz: Secure your first official UFC contract by impressing scouts, earning a $10,000 show and $10,000 win deal.
- Showtime: Accept your fight offer and initiate your Dana White's Contender Series training camp.
- Nerrrd: Earn an A grade on any single training camp drill.
- Look At Me Now: Break into the official UFC top 15 rankings within any weight division.
- The Best There Was: Level a move up to 5 stars through repetition, then finish an opponent using that exact 5-star technique.
- The Best There Ever Will Be: Achieve Greatest of All Time (GOAT) status.
To claim the GOAT award, your fighter must break 8 total records on the career board: exactly 6 performance records and 2 promotion records. Performance targets track milestones such as 15 knockouts, 21 finishes, 26 UFC victories, 17 consecutive wins, 12 title defenses, or 43 total UFC bouts. Promotion targets require investing weekly preparation points into hype activities to secure records in total career earnings, pay-per-view buys, social media followers, or pay-per-view main events. Declining mid-career super fights preserves your title defense streak and keeps you on schedule for the 12-defense record.
How Do You Complete the Online Career and Multiplayer Trophies?
Online career mode is a separate progression ladder featuring division progression, competitive matchmaking, and character evolution. While casual multiplayer matches reward points win or lose, high-tier trophies demand back-to-back victories.
| Trophy Name | Mode Requirement | Target Objective |
|---|---|---|
| Road to Gold | Online Career | Complete the first fight of a competitive season |
| Never Skip Leg Day | Online Career | Spend earned evolution points to upgrade one attribute |
| Pound for Pound | Online Career | Spend 1,000 evolution points and prestige your fighter |
| A Quick Round | Blitz Battle | Complete 1 match in the rotating Blitz tournament |
| Blitz Battler | Blitz Battle | Win 2 consecutive matches to reach Round 3 |
| And Still | ranked championships or Online Career | Win the championship belt and defend the title once |
The steepest hurdle for most players is And Still, which requires capturing a division championship and successfully defending it in your very next match. In online career mode, this amounts to winning four matches in a row against live opponents.
Prestiging your fighter for Pound for Pound is the longest grind in the game. Each level threshold awards 25 advancement points, meaning you must accumulate 1,000 points across dozens of matches. Activating double XP tokens accelerates this grind considerably.
How Do You Unlock Combat and Profile Achievements?
The remaining trophies focus on executing specific mechanics in the Octagon or customizing your online fighter identity. Most combat requirements can be unlocked naturally in Career Mode or knocked out rapidly inside offline Fight Now using a second controller.
In-Ring Combat Trophies
- Relentless: Score a referee stoppage via ground-and-pound strikes from top mount or half guard.
- Just Bleed: Inflict severe facial swelling or lacerations until the ringside physician enters the Octagon for a doctor stoppage inspection.
- Headshot...Bang!: Knock out an opponent by landing a clean strike on the side of the head that is already visibly damaged.
- Come Back to Bed: Complete 5 successful takedowns within a single fight.
- Position Over Submission: Initiate a submission, then cancel the lock to advance your grappling position into side control or mount.
- You Either Win or Learn: Finish a fight with any chokehold submission, such as a guillotine or rear-naked choke.
- Joint Venture: Force a tapout using a joint lock, such as an armbar or heel hook.
- Spinning Shh...: Successfully connect with any spinning strike, such as a spinning backfist or spinning back kick.
- Let me Tell You a Secret: Knock out an opponent from inside a standing clinch.
- Block This: Shatter your opponent's guard using a strike officially classified in the move list as a Guard Break, such as a jumping switch kick.
Profile Customization Trophies
- Shape Shifter: Unlock or purchase any fighter variant in the alter egos category, such as classic UFC pay-per-view editions.
- Fine Collection: Acquire any vanity gear item featuring a gold border, marked as a Legendary item in the store or reward passes.
- Don't Judge Me: Open your Player Card from the main menu and edit all four customization categories: Accolades, Background, Profile Picture, and Flare.
- I Did That: Slot 5 earned gameplay accolades onto your active Player Card showcase.
Where does this guide's official EA SPORTS UFC 5 information come from?
Official details in this guide follow Is EA SPORTS UFC 5 Crossplay? 2023 - No, which describes the game in its own words.
EA SPORTS UFC 5 is a sports game released in 2023, available on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
Is EA SPORTS UFC 5 Crossplay? 2023 - No
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