A playful and compelling political investigation.

Five candidates fight to gain the public’s sympathy and ultimately their vote. Only one of them will survive the relentless series of eliminations, and they employ all possible tactics and strategies to secure their victory.

On a platform reminiscent of a boxing ring, the contest is fought not with fists but with words and looks. The audience, armed with a voting box, decides who stays and who goes, but gets caught up in an increasingly complicated and puzzling system of rules and manipulations. As in political campaigns, polls and predictions, debates and charm-offensives challenge voters’ loyalty and common sense, ultimately to overthrow their notion of free choice.

Fight Night is political through and through, but never explicitly so. The candidates proclaim no particular ideology, nor do they comment on social issues or economic realities. The show draws attention to the reasons and motivations that drive voters to vote. What is at stake is how the concept of “rule of the people” is put into practice in contemporary democratic societies.

Fight Night has toured around the world in recent years. The show has been in Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Australia and Hong Kong, and there has been a remake in Istanbul, Turkey. In 2024, Ontroerend Goed updated the show to reflect the changing political climate.