Knockout Kings 2002 is a boxing video game by EA Sports, released in March 2002 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
It also features many well-known boxers like Lennox Lewis, Félix Trinidad, Oscar De La Hoya, Evander Holyfield, Butterbean, Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko, and Bernard Hopkins.
Knockout Kings 2002 features a different engine than its predecessors, as it now features smoother graphics and a new control scheme, which allows boxers to move around the ring more fluidly, as well as a new analog evasion system, where tilting the left analog stick slightly allows a boxer to bob and weave in the direction of the stick's movement.
Like its predecessors, Knockout Kings 2002 features a career mode, where a player can create a boxer and partake in a series of fights to become champion.
Unlike Knockout Kings 2001 before it, the game forgoes female boxers, instead featuring some fictional boxers including, but not limited to, Henri Tibualt, Joe Giere, Kazahiro Arikawa, Tyler Brooks, Pete Donohue, and Lawrence O'Toole.