Since Mike Tyson's Punch-Out was released on the NES in 1987, millions of players have undertaken millions of digital matches against one of the hardest video game bosses ever: Tyson himself (or, later, the reskinned "Mr. Only a small percentage of those players could survive Tyson's flurry of instant-knockdown uppercuts and emerge victorious with the undisputed World Video Boxing Association championship. Even fewer had fast enough fingers to take out Tyson in the first round. In all this time, no one has been able to register a TKO on Tyson in less than two minutes on the ever-present in-game clock (which runs roughly three times as quickly as a real-time clock). At least that was true until last weekend, when popular speedrunner and speedrun historian Summoning Salt pulled off a 1:59.97 This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast.