Since Mike Tyson’s punch-out In 1987, millions of players were released on the nest, millions of digital matches undertook against one of the most difficult video games bosses ever: Tyson himself (or later the re -planned “Mr. Dream”).

Only a small percentage of players could survive Tyson’s flurry of direct cups and conquer with the undisputed World Championships for Video Boxing Association. Even less had fingers fast enough to take Tyson out in the first round.

In all this time, no one could register a TKO in Tyson in less than two minutes on the ever -present clock in the game (which runs about three times as fast as a real -time clock). At least this was true until the past weekend, when the popular Speedrunner and Speedrun historian called salt, a knockout of 1: 59.97, after what he says were ’75 .000 attempts at almost five years. ‘

It is a matter of incredible skill and incredibly unlikely happiness to break the two -minute barrier to Tyson. While the call of SALT itself began documenting in a 2017 video, you should get the fastest possible Tyson TKO to throw 21 “frame perfect” bumps throughout the fight, each within a single window. Push too early and those blows do slightly less damage, which takes the fight just a little longer. Too late and Tyson will throw up a block and completely deny the punch.

A Tyson speed of Tyson also needs a good pace and a fine of Tyson’s own push, so that Little Mac (the player character) can get back into the position as quickly as possible. Summing Salt says he was only seven frames of perfection in this regard, which cost about 0.35 seconds in the game during the course of the fight.

However, even with the almost unparalleled execution, the call of Salt’s record run would have fallen well, if not for unreasonable amount of happiness from the game itself. As Bismuth explains in a video of 2024, Tyson can wait for anywhere between a fraction of a second and up to eight seconds between pushing.

If you get the longest of those delays, you can hinder the opportunity to beat Tyson in the first round. But for his sub-two-minute TKO, the call of salt needed almost all the breaks to find happily at the minimum of eight frames (~ 0.4 seconds on the clock in the game).

Summing Salt says Tyson here gave him a ‘perfect pattern’ during his first phase of endless upper clippings, something that only happens 1 in 1 600 games. And later in the fight, the random generator of the game worked together by adding only an extra 16 frames of delay (~ 0.8 seconds) compared to a “perfect” run. Collectively, the estimate of salt estimates that Tyson will punch it only once every 7,000 to 10,000 efforts.

“It’s over,” Salt Live said on Twitch when the record match was finished, in a surprisingly even tone that came over that sounded much like a controller. “I thought I would be much more excited about this. Holy shit, old! It’s fucking about … old, am I dreaming now? … I’m sorry I’m so quiet. I’m in shock at the moment it just happened. ‘

With its almost perfect combination of skill and happiness, the call of Salt’s new record surpasses its own previous world record from exactly 2:00 to the clock in the game. The brand, set up just eight months ago, was only three frames of 1:59 at the first time in the game.