{"id":91431,"date":"2019-04-05T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/04\/random_boxing_legend_mike_tyson_seems_to_think_nintendo_is_working_on_a_new_punch-out"},"modified":"2019-04-05T00:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T00:05:00","slug":"random-boxing-legend-mike-tyson-seems-to-think-nintendo-is-working-on-a-new-punch-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/05\/random-boxing-legend-mike-tyson-seems-to-think-nintendo-is-working-on-a-new-punch-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Boxing Legend Mike Tyson Seems To Think Nintendo Is Working On A New Punch-Out!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0e82cb2a01047\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0e82cb2a01047\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Punch Out IMG\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0e82cb2a01047\/punch-out-img.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0e82cb2a01047\/punch-out-img.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Punch Out IMG\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>If you&#8217;re familiar with the boxing legend Mike Tyson, you&#8217;ll likely remember how his name was attached to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/punch-out\">Punch-Out!!<\/a><\/strong> on the NES. Due to licensing issues and Tyson&#8217;s imprisonment in the &#8217;90s, the game was renamed and nowadays has &#8216;Featuring Mr. Dream&#8217; in the title.<\/p>\n<p>Still, that&#8217;s not enough for Mike to forget he was once affiliated with this classic, as he recently noticed Nintendo of America&#8217;s tweet about the April NES games for the Switch Online service. In case you missed it, this month <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/super_mario_bros_the_lost_levels\">Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels<\/a><\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/star_soldier\"><strong>Star Soldier<\/strong><\/a>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/punch-out_featuring_mr_dream\">Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream<\/a><\/strong> are being added to the digital library.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">mr dream? everyone tell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoAmerica?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NintendoAmerica<\/a> who they think of when they hear punch out <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2j51PLt0Em\">pic.twitter.com\/2j51PLt0Em<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Mike Tyson (@MikeTyson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeTyson\/status\/1113880346997792769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It seems the mere mention of Punch-Out!! was enough to make Mike think a new one was on the way, as exactly an hour after he found out about this, he tweeted Nintendo&#8217;s Japanese account, asking why he hadn&#8217;t been contacted about the next entry:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">heard <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nintendo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Nintendo<\/a> was doing the new \u201cPunch Out\u201d without even contacting me. it wont be the same. my knockouts made the game. thats whack.<\/span>\u2014 Mike Tyson (@MikeTyson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeTyson\/status\/1113893284781461504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It looks like the former boxer might be a bit confused about what exactly is going on here. Even if a new Punch-Out!! game was announced in the future, we imagine Nintendo would prefer to make use of its own boxers such as Little Mac.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think about this? Has Mike taken too many hits to the head, or does he know something we don&#8217;t? Leave a comment down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re familiar with the boxing legend Mike Tyson, you&#8217;ll likely remember how his name was attached to Punch-Out!! on the NES. Due to licensing issues and Tyson&#8217;s imprisonment in the &#8217;90s, the game was renamed and nowadays has &#8216;Featuring Mr. Dream&#8217; in the title. Still, that&#8217;s not enough for Mike to forget he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}