Punch-Out!! (Wii) - Contender Mode Speedrun [8:02.39] (FWR)

Big congrats to lee_a1x, the only other person to myself and zallard1 to hold this record since the game was released (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muc6WgPYNoA&ab_channel=lee_a1x). I just so happened to be grinding full game runs, so getting a time this low in the contender segment was certainly a surprise.

This run just focuses on the first portion of the game, where Little Mac rises through the ranks to become the world champion. Unfortunately the Title Defence section of the run died pretty shortly afterwards, so wasn't able to turn this into a solid full game run.

Assuming all of the strategies are completed correctly, this run really has 3 key players: King Hippo, Don Flamenco and Mr Sandman (all 3 circuit champions surprisingly enough). When Mac throws the star at King Hippo, there's a single frame during his re-centre animation where he'll go into his next attack instantly rather than hopping around for a bit. Landing the star in this frame perfect window gets a 47 second time as opposed to 50 seconds.

Don Flamenco has his infamous loop, though not nearly as daunting as the Title Defence counterpart, hitting any delayed punch after the first 2 frames loses a full second for each one you miss pretty much. Despite hitting all of them, the execution was a bit too slow for a 17 second time, but a low 18 is more than welcome.

Mr Sandman is interesting because like Super Macho Man, there are quite a few punches that need to be optimised, except most of these ones are counterpunches, making them pretty tricky to time. A 37 is definitely a good time here. There are other challenging fights like Bear Hugger, but so long as you do them correctly, they're not really worth a reset in all honesty.

Overall this was a pretty great run and hopefully I'll be able to close out a great run of the full game soon enough.

Thanks so much for watching and reading :)

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