One of the biggest names in speedrunning has just beaten a three-year-old record for defeating the titular final boss in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, one of t🔴he most legendary challenges in gaming history.
"I just beat Mike Tyson faster than anyone has before - 2:00.61, beating a world record that stood for over three years," Summoning Salt wrote on . "I put💖 tens of thousands of attempts into loꦗwering this time, and it finally paid off last night." In fact, in the description of the full , Summoning Salt says this record "took something like 20,000+ attempts." That's some darn impressive dedication.
If you're at all familiar with speedrunning, you've probably heard the name Summoning Salt before - after all, his YouTube videos offer some of the most definitive explana🉐tions of speedrunning history you can find on the internet. As you might expect, he does a fair bit of speedrunning , but he's downright dominant in Punch-Out, holding number one records in standard categories as well as more extreme rulesets like the Tyson Challenge, wheꦏre you attempt to beat Tyson 14 times in a row without losing a single fight.
Summoning Salt has held the single fight record against Tyson since 2017. He set his long-standing record of 2:00.97 back in 2020 and now, three years later, that record has finallyꦛ been broken. Behind him, it's a four-way tie for second place with a number of ot༒hers having set 2:05.25 times, but nobody's been able to touch Summoning Salt's sub-2:05 record.
Mike Tyson is one of the most legendary challenges in gaming history. It's impossible to objectively quantify just how tough a particular boss is compared with any other, but in subjective, anecdotal terms, I can tell you I beat Tyson after 104 attempts when I finally conquered Punch-Out last year. I can tell you for darn sure that I didn't do it with a 2:00.61, though.
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dallianc🗹es in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the l🍒atest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.
