UFC 5 trophy guide: all 32
32 trophies, 4/10 difficulty and 10–15 hours to platinum. Only The Best There Ever Will Be can be missed in a single career.
32 trophies, 32 opportunities to lose a fight you were winning. UFC 5's list is short for a sports game and unusually front-loaded: the career trophies come quickly, the online ones are the wall, and exactly one trophy can be permanently missed in a single playthrough.
The numbers
32 trophies: 1 platinum, 6 gold, 9 silver, 16 bronze — 18 offline and 14 online. Difficulty sits at 4/10 with roughly 10–15 hours to platinum; one trophy is permanently missable, three are semi-missable because they are tied to Fight Week, none are glitched, and difficulty does not affect any of them.
Source note: these figures come from published trophy guides — PowerPyx's roadmap and the PSNProfiles guide — not from EA, which does not publish trophy difficulty or completion time.
The full list
| Trophy | Requirement | Where |
|---|---|---|
| G.O.A.T. | Unlock all other trophies in EA SPORTS™ UFC® 5. | Any mode |
| Slice vs. Dreads | Enter the Backyard in Career Mode. | Career |
| Showtime | Start your Contender Series Training Camp in Career Mode. | Career |
| No Rizz | Get your first UFC Contract in Career Mode. | Career |
| You Have My Attention | Unlock a challenge during Fight Week. | Fight Week |
| Easy Work | Unlock all challenges during a Fight Week. | Fight Week |
| Nerrrd | Achieve an A Grade in a Training Drill in Career Mode. | Career |
| Look At Me Now | Become a ranked fighter in any UFC weightclass in Career Mode. | Career |
| What Could Go Wrong? | Make picks for a Fight Week. | Fight Week |
| Position Over Submission | Release a Submission to advance your position. | Any mode |
| Just Bleed | Have a Doctor enter the cage to check out a cut. | Any mode |
| Spinning Shh… | Land a spinning attack on your opponent. | Any mode |
| Headshot…Bang! | Knockout an opponent on the same side they are damaged on. | Any mode |
| The Best There Is | Upgrade a move during a fight or training in Career Mode. | Career |
| The Best There Was | Prestige a move in Career Mode. | Career |
| Shape Shifter | Acquire an Alter Ego Fighter. | Online |
| The Best There Ever Will Be | Become the GOAT in Career Mode. | Career |
| Relentless | Finish a fight by ground and pound. | Any mode |
| You Either Win or Learn | Finish a fight by choke submission. | Any mode |
| Joint Venture | Finish a fight by Joint Submission. | Any mode |
| Come Back to Bed | Perform 5 successful takedowns in a fight. | Any mode |
| Fine Collection | Acquire a Legendary Item. | Store |
| Let me Tell You a Secret | KO your opponent from clinch. | Any mode |
| Don’t Judge Me | Edit all categories from your Player Card. | Player card |
| I Did That | Equip 5 accolades in your Player Card. | Player card |
| Pound for Pound | Prestige a fighter in Online Career. | Career |
| Road to Gold | Start a season in Online Career. | Career |
| Never Skip Leg Day | Upgrade a fighter in Online Career. | Career |
| A Quick Round | Enter a Blitz Battle. | Blitz |
| Blitz Battler | Get to Round 3 of a Blitz Battle. | Blitz |
| Block This | Use a Guard Breaking strike to break your opponents block. | Any mode |
| And Still | Become champion and defend the title once in Ranked Championship or Online Career. | Career |
The one missable
The Best There Ever Will Be — become the G.O.A.T. in Career Mode. It is missable because the career has a longevity clock: if you lose more fights than you win, the career can run out of time before the G.O.A.T. checklist is complete.
The defence is to check the G.O.A.T. Status screen regularly and take the requirements you can finish: trophy guides report any 6 of 10 Performance requirements plus any 2 of 4 Promotion requirements.
The three semi-missable
You Have My Attention, Easy Work and What Could Go Wrong? all live in Fight Week. Fight Week only runs during real UFC pay-per-view weeks, so if you miss the window you wait for the next numbered event.
They are calendar checks, not skill checks: no amount of grinding gets you a Fight Week that is not happening.
The hardest three
Pound for Pound (prestige a fighter in Online Career), And Still (win a title and defend it in Ranked Championships or Online Career) and Blitz Battler (reach Round 3 of a Blitz Battle).
All three are online, and all three are semi-boostable because matchmaking pairs you with players at your level. The documented routes:
- Pound for Pound: put 1,000 Evolution Points into one fighter, then prestige.
- And Still: win three fights in a row for a title, then win the defence. The defence is the hard part — a loss means starting the run again.
- Blitz Battler: two consecutive wins in a Blitz Battle. A loss does not end the event; you rejoin and try again.
How to make the list shorter
- Do Career first, on Easy. Everything except the online set is achievable in one playthrough, and difficulty does not affect trophies.
- Check G.O.A.T. Status every few fights. The missable trophy is a planning failure, not a skill failure.
- Play one Fight Week as soon as it is live. Three trophies depend on the calendar, not on you.
- Leave the online set for last. It is where the variance is, and the career trophies will have taught you the controls.
One caveat: Patch 1.27 fixed a stamina drain bug on the Full Mount Armbar and Triangle, so older routes that leaned on submission spam no longer work the same way. The list itself has been stable since launch — no glitched trophies, no difficulty requirements, no rank requirement.
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