Little Mac (Punch-Out!!)



Little Mac is the playable protagonist in the Nintendo NES game Mike Tyson's Punchout!! and presumably Super Punchout!! for the SNES. Little Mac is known by fans for his jumping uppercut called the "Star uppercut" which often knocks his opponents unconscious. He has been confirmed as an Assist Trophy in the upcoming Wii title Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

The Beginning
He is described as a 17 year old, 4"8, 107lbs. kid from the Bronx, New York. He is interested in getting into the World Video Boxing Association, which has a long history of rookie boxers joining the ranks in an effort to become world champions. He traveled New York in hopes of searching for someone that could train him. He met 200 different trainers and was rejected 200 times. It was not until he met Jerome "Doc" Louis, who was a former heavyweight champion in his own right, that he began his journey to the top of the Boxing circuit. Doc gives Little Mac advice between rounds in both games.

Doc Louis put Little Mac through a hard training regime, in which Little Mac was eventually able to overcome. Once it seemed that Little Mac was ready, Doc Louis put his skills to the test. Little Mac fought the likes of King Hippo, Soda Popinski, Glass Joe and many other boxers before reaching the final fight against Mike Tyson, which saw Little Mac gaining the victory and the championship.

SNES Super Punch Out!! and beyond
The SNES version of Super Punch-Out!! features a blond-haired boxer named by the player. The Electronic Arts game, Fight Night: Round 2 for the Nintendo GameCube identifies this character as "Little Mac", but his appearance and naming in Fight Night is not considered canonical due to the third-party nature of the product.

Little Mac was also featured as the protagonist in the Punch-Out!! stories featured in Valiant Comics' Nintendo Comics System, appearing in the stories "The First Fight", "Outsiders", and "Fox and Hounds". He also makes a cameo in the prologue short of the Captain N comic books, suggesting that his stories are canonical to the Captain N continuity, although he never showed up in any of the actual Captain N stories (nor did King Hippo, a Captain N regular, appear in the Punch-Out!! stories). He can also be found as a Hasbro Action Figure, as an Applause action figure, and in a Topps trading card series.

A different character?
In the sequel for Mike Tyson's Punchout!! for the SNES entitled Super Punchout!!, The protagonist sports blonde hair, big blue eyes, and a more detailed physique. Losing his pitch black hair, eyes, and his green boxing gloves. Whether this is indeed the same Little Mac from the original NES Punch-Out!! is unknown. It may be possible that this unnamed character is meant to be a redesigned Little Mac (prototype versions of the game featured a dark-haired boxer in his place) or is simply just an entirely different character.

External Little Mac Links

 * | Little Mac summary
 * WVBA Little Mac Profile
 * Red Tom's Little Mac Page
 * The Miseducation Of Little Mac
 * Little Mac's Diary (satirical article on X-Entertainment)
 * | McKenzie Weaver