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The Underdog

Las Vegas Gets a New Kind of Fight Night
Experiential Design
Creative Strategy
Art Direction
In-Arena Experience
+ Project Info

Creative Direction
Geoff Greenwood
Anthony Petosa
Adrienne Humphreys

Art Direction & Design
Geoff Greenwood
Sam Valdez

Arena Projection Design
& Animation

Geoff Greenwood
Brian Patience

Set Build & Production
512 Creative

"The Ring Presents: The Underdog" launched at BleauLive Theater inside Fontainebleau Las Vegas during Canelo–Crawford fight week. Stepping in to lead the creative, FocalScape was tasked with architecting a brand-new fight IP from the ground up.

The brief arrived in just two words: "Underground" and "Grit." From there, our team treated the project as an exercise in pure world-building. Drawing from underground fight culture, subway textures, urban decay, layered street graphics, and cinematic tension, we developed a fully realized environment grounded in the mentality of the underdog. Unpolished. Resilient. Relentless.

We engineered a visual identity that completely consumed the venue. By unifying the projection environments, LED content, motion graphics, ring branding, and scenic applications, we turned a traditional venue into a distinct, living arena. The result was a cohesive, high-impact live experience built simultaneously to immerse the fans in the room and captivate the global broadcast audience.

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