Mike Tyson is Entirely Oblivious to New Wii Punch Out!!

Okay that was... nice :l

I'm happy and I'll miss Punch-Out too

Sadly, the video interview isn't available to viewers outside of the United States. And that includes you, Canada.

You don't know how much I hate that...

Regarding the game itself, I won't be purchasing it, due to lack of interest and funds.

Ha! That made me laugh. He didn't even know that the game exists.

Damo's disdain for Canadians continues.

You spelt Canadian wrong Corbie, you Amernican.

I thought it was spelled with an "e" in Canadian English. Sorry. I need to stay off of Wikipedia.

Well, it's spelled that way in french, like the Montreal Canadiens, but any other time it's spelled Canadian. I'll forgive you. This time.

LOL One of the hardest video game bosses EVER sucks at Punch Out?!
XD

Merci beaucoup!

I thought they removed him because his liscense expired...

Don't worry, people outside the U.S. I made a transcript of the interview right here:

Josh Horowitz: "For people my age, I grew up with a very iconic video game..."
Mike Tyson grunts.
Josh: "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! There's a new Punch-Out that's coming out. I don't know if you know that, that it's like the first one in a decade, for the Wii."
Mike: "Yeah."
Josh: "Did they come to you and ask you to be a part of it?"
Mike: "Uh, I believe there was a Round 4, Fight Night 4.
Josh: "There's that too, yeah, but I think then there's also a separate Punch-Out!! game. There's ... That's, like, you and, like, Ali on the cover, I think, that one."
Mike: "Yeah?"
Josh: "But what about ... uh ... for ... for the Wii game?"
Mike: "Uh, I don't know if I'm in that, and I don't really know about that."
Josh: "Were you ever any good at Mike Tyson's Punch-Out?"
Mike: "Nah, I got slaughtered."
Josh: "What?" (seeming a little dismayed)
Mike: "I got slaughtered all the time."
Josh: "Didn't they, like, give you, like, the free, like, code of like how you could beat any opponent?" (he says a tiny bit more but I can't make it out through Mike's interruption)
Mike: "No, I got slaughtered. I never played it again. I played it one time and I got slaughtered and I never played it again.
Josh: "Are you a big, uh, gamer now?"
Mike: "Um, Resident Evil. That's my favorite. Resident Evil."
Josh: "And you're a little better at that than Punch-Out, hopefully?"
Mike: "Yeah, I suck at ... uh, all the boxing games and stuff. I played Mike Tyson fightin' Joe Frazier in Punch-Out. Joe Frazier was killing everybody. I got ... playing Joe...Joe Frazier was just demolishing. We all lost. But I like Res...I like games with plot. I like Resident Evil and stuff like that. I like Gods of War, combat, stuff like that, but all that other stuff, man."
Josh laughs.
Mike: "Sports? Oh man. Things like, I never got... I never got into sports. The only thing I ever did was just box and stuff. I started so young, but I never played sports or anything before."

Mike said a few other things, but he was slurring so damn much I couldn't understand.
And yes, Mike really did say he was playing as himself against Joe Frazier in Punch-Out!!, despite Mike not being playable and Joe not being in the game at all.

Thanks for the clarification, Ian Daemon.

Maybe he meant Glass Joe perhaps? Though it would be pretty sad if Mike Tyson can't even beat him. I guess its kind of like how most real-life guitarists do terrible at Guitar Hero.

Actually, you are right, TwilightV. The license did expire, and Nintendo decided not to renew it because Mike had lost the championship to Buster Douglas (albeit through a disputed referee's count). SEGA immediately picked Buster up to be in their own boxing game on the Genesis, which is probably one of the reasons Tyson was replaced by Mr Dream instead of Buster. This all happened before the rapes, ear-biting, and spouse-beating.

I don't think I beat Glass Joe the very first time I played the game either, but that was because I didn't really know the controls and what I was supposed to do.

Thank you, BlueFlameBat.

Sure thing, Aenaida. I just hope the next thing I transcript won't be filled with slurred words. I must have backtracked about 30 times. It was worth it though because I don't appreciate websites restricting access from any region.

A lot of MTV's content is not available outside the U.S. MTV are dickheads.

@Mr. M: it's not just MTV that does it, either -- Adult Swim online is also unavailable in different parts of the world (it killed me to be in Japan and unable to watch the new episodes of Metalocalypse as they came out last season). I wonder what the deal is, exactly. :/

Is the interview stored on site in some kind of .flv format? Because I could try to rip it and re-post it region-free on YouTube if it is.

Whens Tyson gonna fight that damn tiger, like he said he would, for a million dollars?

Lol tyson is going to fight a tiger? This ones for siegfried and roy!

thanks you BlueFlameBat

@BlueFlameBat: The part you have as "(unidentifiable)" is actually "I started so young".

Thanks BlueFlameBat for that

And yeah, his license expired, Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream came out months before he went off the rails.

Speaking of typos: "Cacpom's Resident Evil series" Assuming the series hasn't been sold off to a similarly-named company, I think that's a little off.

No, of course he meant Cacpom! You know, they made Meagman and Strete Fightre!

Seems to me that Tyson is entirely oblivious to most things...

I tried to download the video using RealPlayer and all I could get was the opening ad before the interview.