King’s Tekken 3 look is the blueprint for Tekken 8’s new Nike collection. Bandai Namco’s trailer puts two Nike Air sneaker models, a Nike top and a Nike bottom into the game as costume pieces, and a Nike-themed ARENA stage sits behind the fights.
Here’s the catch for anyone already reaching for a wallet. The collection lives inside the game only. It rolls out through the Tekken Fight Pass, Round 12, starting November 11, 2026, and it leaves on February 17, 2027. No store gets a pair.
Tekken 8 x Nike Collection
4 in-game costume items in Fight Pass Round 12 · 2 Nike Air sneaker models · 1 Nike top · 1 Nike bottom
Price: TBD
Where to buy: Tekken.com
Leopard print, a swoosh and a paw print on the sole
The design pulls straight from King’s Tekken 3 alternate outfit. The set pulls from his appearances in Tekken 3 and Tekken 8 both. Leopard print carries both sneaker models, with the swoosh laid over the spots, and the top and bottom pieces match the set. It’s King’s ring gear rebuilt as streetwear. King is the series’ masked wrestler, and that Tekken 3 look is the one long-time players picture first when his name comes up.
Nike’s dotswoosh account teased the reveal on November 9 with a grainy shot of King in that Tekken 3 outfit. The trailer fills in the rest a day later, and the detail that lands hardest shows up mid-fight. A paw print sits on the soles. Every kick thrown at the camera flashes it.
Half the roster takes a turn in them
King leads the trailer, but he doesn’t keep the sneakers to himself. Armor King, Kazuya, Zafina, Miary Zo, Fahkumram, Leroy, Hwoarang, Asuka and Jin all show up in the Nike Air models across the trailer’s fights.
The ARENA stage gets the same treatment. Bandai Namco dressed it in a Nike theme for a limited run, so the swoosh hangs over the ring in every shot. Watch the trailer and count the paw prints.
Round 12 runs on a clock
The Fight Pass sits inside the Tekken Shop, separate from the Season 3 character pass. Rounds work on missions. Finish them, level the pass, unlock the items on its tracks. Round 12 opens November 11, 2026 and closes February 17, 2027, and the Nike pieces ride that window. The window runs a little over three months, mid-November to mid-February. Miss the round and the pieces go with it.
The timing stacks up. Roger Jr. enters early access for Season 3 Pass holders on November 11 too, with a full release on November 16, so the pass round and the new fighter land in the same week. Tekken 8 runs on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC through Steam, and the round reaches every version at once.
The 2024 round put real shoes on feet
This isn’t the first Tekken and Nike pairing. At Evo 2024 the two revealed digital Nike Air Foamposite One sneakers for Jin Kazama and Kazuya Mishima, then dropped a physical Kazuya Mishima edition that people at the show could buy through the SNKRS app. Those digital pairs later landed in Fight Pass Round 3, where two Nike items sat on the free track.
That history is why the new trailer looks like a shoe drop at first glance. It isn’t one, at least not yet. No physical pair has been announced alongside it, and Bandai Namco’s release points at more detail coming through its official channels later, nothing stronger.
Tekken 8 x Nike Collection
4 in-game costume items in Fight Pass Round 12 · 2 Nike Air sneaker models · 1 Nike top · 1 Nike bottom
Price: TBD
Where to buy: Tekken.com
So the leopard Nikes stay where the trailer put them for now. On King’s feet, in the game, gone by mid-February if the round passes unplayed.
