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GTA V mod turns the beach into a cage fight arena

A 20 KB Menyoo scene turns a Los Santos beach into a cage fight set, and its creator says it took 40 hours to build.

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GTA V mod turns the beach into a cage fight arena
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KroshSten’s CageBeachFightingClub takes a sliver of Los Santos and turns it into a staged brawl spot: a beach arena with a cage, room to spawn enemies, and enough structure to let the chaos repeat on command. The file is tiny at 20 KB, but the work behind it was not, with the creator saying it took 40 hours to make.

The mod was listed as version 1.0 with 76 downloads, 2 likes, one vote, and a 5.0-star rating. Its appeal is in the setup, not in any overhaul of GTA V combat. Drop CageBeachFightClub.xml into Grand Theft Auto V\menyooStuff\Spooner, load it in Menyoo, and the scene is ready to edit, expand, or use as a fixed backdrop for fights, stunts, or roleplay beats. The page also makes the creator-friendly pitch explicit: videos can be made and uploaded to social media without issue.

That makes CageBeachFightingClub an easy fit for players who live in Menyoo’s Spooner workflow. It is built for machinima shots, fight montages, challenge runs, and quick roleplay scenes that need a dependable location instead of a one-off scripted mission. The beach setting gives it a different feel from the usual warehouse or alleyway cage setups, and the repeatability is what gives the map its staying power.

AI-generated illustration
AI-generated illustration

The mod also lands in a familiar GTA tradition. Similar Menyoo fight-scene projects have appeared before, including Illegal Cage Fight Scene v1 on April 24, 2022, and Underground Fighting [Menyoo], first uploaded on December 25, 2018. Rockstar pushed the spectacle side of that fantasy into official territory with Grand Theft Auto Online: Arena War on December 11, 2018, centered on combat inside Maze Bank Arena.

Menyoo itself remains a major part of that ecosystem. The current GTA5-Mods listing shows version 2.3.0 with a March 21, 2025 update, and the tool continues under open-source maintenance from ItsJustCurtis and others after the original MAFINS repository went unanswered. In a game world where GTA Online supports up to 30 players and Rockstar says GTA V and GTA Online have drawn more than 200 million Rockstar Games members worldwide, a small beach arena mod still has a real job to do: give creators a fast, flexible place to stage mayhem without building the whole world from scratch.

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