After five years and over 75,000 attempts, famed speedrunning historian Summoning Salt took down Mike Tyson in just under two minutes, setting a new world record. In Punch Out, to be clear, though they wouldn't be the first YouTuber to beat Tyson in the ring.
Summoning Salt was the first-ever to bring this fight down to just two minutes, in the first place. But that only made them more hungry for the belt, sparking a half-a-decade-long Rocky montage of defeat after defeat where they worked tirelessly to dethrone their own time and reach sub-two minutes. It was a gruelling cocktail of pixel-perfect skill and RNG that finally allowed them to do just that, beating the previous record by 0.03 seconds.
The Mike Tyson fight requires an incredible amount of luck and execution. I hit all 21 frame perfect punches (1/60th of a second), hit ten perfect dodges and ducks, and got luck that has somewhere around a 1/7,000 to 1/10,000 chance of occurring.
Summoning Salt believes that the theoretical limit is 1:58:61 (they did it in 1:59:97), but they're retiring from the ring to let someone else take up the reins as the...
