'EA Sports UFC' adding UFC Hall of Famers Matt Hughes, Mark Coleman to game

Matt Hughes in “EA Sports UFC”

We’re one day into the official holiday shopping season. EA Sports knows this.

So the video game company, not long after releasing another downloadable game update for “EA Sports UFC” featuring Andrei Arlovski, Yoel Romero and Myles Jury, has upped the ante a little bit with the introduction of a pair of legends.

EA Sports announced UFC Hall of Famers Matt Hughes and Mark Coleman are “coming soon” to the game.

Mark Coleman in “EA Sports UFC”

“EA Sports UFC” was released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in June and was the first UFC game in partnership with EA Sports after previous games with THQ, which sold the license to Electronic Arts.

Royce Gracie and Bruce Lee are featured in the game as unlockable fighters, and since the game’s initial release, many other fighters have been added to the lineup as downloadable characters, including upcoming UFC on FOX 13 headliner Stipe Miocic, Tim Kennedy, UFC Fight Night 60 headliner Matt Brown and, a bit infamously given he’s a titleholder, bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw.

No concrete date was given for when the Hughes and Coleman characters will be officially available for download. Chuck Liddell and Forrest Griffin are two other UFC Hall of Famers who are retired and playable as characters in the game, but they were part of the initial release.