Mike Tyson plays ‘Mike Tyson’s Punch Out!!’ for the first time

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A few months after dominating James ‘Bonecrusher’ Smith to unify the heavyweight title in 1987, Iron Mike starred in the beloved NES version of Nintendo’s boxing game Punch Out!!, which cranked the champ’s legendary speed and power up to 11.

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Amazingly, however, Tyson himself never actually played the game…until now.

While kicking back in the green room prior to an appearance on FOX Sports 1’s Fox Sports Live, Tyson finally caved and gave his old game a workout. And it didn’t go especially well.

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he struggled mightily to topple the game’s first opponent, the aptly-named Glass Joe.

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