Mike Tyson hits out at Nintendo after thinking there\u2019s a new \u2018Punch-Out\u2019 game Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson, YouTube \/ Punch Out, NintendoFormer professional boxing star Mike Tyson is no stranger to guest starring in video games \u2013 but he feels that one major company has left him out of their upcoming production. Why is Mike Tyson beefing with Nintendo? Tyson took shots at major video game developer Nintendo in a Tweet on April 4, claiming that the company had already begun production on a new \u2018Punch Out\u2019 game without notifying him. \u201cHeard Nintendo was doing the new \u2018Punch Out\u2019 without even contacting me,\u201d Tyson wrote. \u201cIt won\u2019t be the same. My knockouts made the game. That\u2019s wack.\u201d heard @Nintendo was doing the new \u201cPunch Out\u201d without even contacting me. it wont be the same. my knockouts made the game. thats whack. \u2014 Mike Tyson (@MikeTyson) April 4, 2019 However, Tyson\u2019s comments come as a confusing surprise to fans, as there is no upcoming \u2018Punch Out\u2019 game in production \u2013 at least that we know of. Unless Tyson leaked an as-yet unheard of game, it appears that the pugilist was referring to the re-release of the classic NES \u2018Punch Out\u2019 on the Nintendo Switch, which replaced his final boss fight with an enemy named \u201cMr. Dream\u201d after their license to use Tyson as a character expired. Tyson had even Tweeted about being replaced with \u201cMr. Dream\u201d in a preceding post, writing, \u201cMr. Dream? everyone tell Nintendo America who they think of when they hear \u2018Punch Out.\u2019\u201d In fact, Tyson was even featured in the original game\u2019s title, which had initially been \u2018Mike Tyson\u2019s Punch Out\u2019 before Nintendo decided to mitigate possible legal risks. mr dream? everyone tell @NintendoAmerica who they think of when they hear punch out pic.twitter.com\/2j51PLt0Em \u2014 Mike Tyson (@MikeTyson) April 4, 2019 Mike Tyson\u2019s run-in with Capcom Nintendo\u2019s choice to pull Tyson from \u2018Punch Out\u2019 wouldn\u2019t be the first time he was removed from a game, either; Capcom notably switched his name from boxer \u2018M. Bison\u2019 in Street Fighter II ahead of release, thus changing all three names for its cast of boss characters in the process to avoid a potential lawsuit. Despite Tyson\u2019s apparent blunder in regards to the Switch re-release, he very well may have heard rumblings of a new \u2018Punch Out\u2019 in the works \u2013 although no such developments have yet been reported. Tyson\u2019s Tweet on the matter has since gone viral, with even the likes of major Twitch streamer Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins flexing his signed copy of the original title in response to the debacle. Tyson has since poked fun at the situation, even uploading a clip from his podcast where he\u2019d learned about his inspiration for Street Fighter\u2019s original boxer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mike Tyson hits out at Nintendo after thinking there\u2019s a new \u2018Punch-Out\u2019 game Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson, YouTube \/ Punch Out, NintendoFormer professional boxing star Mike Tyson is no stranger to guest starring in video games \u2013 but he feels that one major company has left him out of their upcoming production. Why is Mike […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}