Little Mac trains, Doc Louis eats in latest Punch-Out!! commercial

by Griffin McElroy { May 10th 2009 at 2:30PM }

We all know that boxing is a rather physically demanding sport -- but rarely does anyone acknowledge the emotional toll it takes on participating pugilists. Take poor little Little Mac, former W.V.B.A. champ, whose remarkable achievements in the ring crumbled beneath the tremendous girth of King Hippo, setting the miniature boxer on a downward spiral that he wouldn't escape for 15 years.

Now, with a little over a week between us and Little Mac's ringside return in Punch-Out!! for the Wii, he's getting back in shape with a bit of help from his bike riding den mother, Doc Louis. You can catch a short documentary/commercial (documercial?) about the rise and fall of Mac after the break. It's pretty funny! But also pretty tragic. (But mostly funny.)

Tags: boxing, commercial, doc-louis, little-mac, punch-out

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Crusty Magic @ May 10th 2009 2:37PM

"A comeback is like a yo-yo, you gonna go down, but then you come right back up."

D_Average @ May 10th 2009 2:58PM

"And hell, you might even end up even walking the dog...."

Morisato @ May 10th 2009 3:10PM

It's so true. I always walk my dog after a major come back. It's good thinking time.

Alex @ May 10th 2009 2:38PM

Why didn't they just do this instead of wii boxing? guh.

lanceyami03 @ May 10th 2009 2:42PM

EDIT: So says the community!

Corasaur @ May 10th 2009 2:49PM

You should apologize for your utter lack of basic human decency.

Jawmuncher @ May 10th 2009 2:49PM

Best Remix ever

tmacairjordan87 @ May 10th 2009 2:51PM

Nah this is the best remix ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWRyj5cHIQA&feature=channel_page

Morisato @ May 10th 2009 3:15PM

...epic...

Fernando Rocker @ May 10th 2009 3:22PM

lmao... that was great, tmac...

Linkario @ May 10th 2009 3:23PM

@Corasaur - you should apologize for your utter lack of interweb knowledges.

Doombot (zuburi) @ May 10th 2009 4:08PM

Just because something is "accepted" on the internet doesn't make it any less of a racial epithet.

"The internet connects awful people to each other so they can feel better about how awful they are."

Congratulations, you have found others that accept your closeted bigotry.

Linkario @ May 10th 2009 5:27PM

Dude.. I'm black. Fuck off.

Linkario @ May 10th 2009 5:32PM

I'm really a honky ass cracker but wanted to make you feel lame... I realized that you already feel lame, you know, being you. So you can still fuck off though and preach to some people who care about political correctness.

Sir Buzz Killington( The Artist formerly known as Jakka) @ May 10th 2009 5:36PM

Let the one who didn't burst out laughing the first time they saw 'Nigga Stole Mah Bike' be the first one to -1.

Insight (Fatass Defense Force) @ May 10th 2009 6:25PM

I'm actually black.

Fuck off.

Markez @ May 10th 2009 6:36PM

I'm with Corasaur & Zuburi here, but asnine shit like that in unavoidable in the toobs.

Jakka I didn't laugh when I'd initially seen it I just thought it was stupid. I'll be sure to minus myself once I post this :P

Anticrawl @ May 10th 2009 7:39PM

Ahaha, well played sir. I clicked on this post just to say, "Nigga stole my bike!"

@Corasaur

Your overly sensitive attitude is the reason there will never be true racial equality. For every man strong enough or one with a sense of humor to brush it off there is a man of any race who will use a simple word as an excuse for their position in life or leverage to abuse others and take the easy route in life.

You don't even know what oppression is likely, in my lifetime there was actual government and society oppression of my tribe. We weren't allowed in public schools, denied adequate services from the state like clean water and electricity, attacked and ran out of cities, house burnt down by a local group of radicals, forced into segregated poorly funded boarding schools. YET you don’t hear me demanding people cry for me or give me a free pass. Hell I could care less what you say about me or too me, so long as I get an equal chance. I worked for where I am today, hard. I have zero respect for anyone who tries to take a free ride on the suffering of people long dead.

You need to chill out and lighten up.

Anticrawl @ May 10th 2009 7:44PM

Also for the lulz - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCF6MGjslpw

Markez @ May 10th 2009 8:04PM

I read a fair amount of lit back in college (being a soc major) on why 'nigga' just perpetuates the same problems created by free wheeling use of the 'er' version by dumbasses nationwide. The argument that African-Americans took ownership of it, and empowered themselves with 'nigga' rings rather hollow with me. I mean, by and large, somebody, anybody, wants to use it frequently that's their business. Whatever. I don't like it however it's used. Sure, people don't care here in the webs when the word is tossed around casually, but good luck getting the same results out in public.

"Your overly sensitive attitude is the reason there will never be true racial equality." That's pretty overboard, pal. Did you take it to that extreme because of the 'utter lack of human deceny' comment (which is asinine) or just the fact he doesnt like an n bomb in his wheaties?

Personally, the lulz for me outta that come from the rad ways they mix in the 8 bit art into all sorts of different things. Otherwise I think it's just teh lamez with no lulz.

Without philosoraptor passing judgment on what's appropriate here and what isn't, I'm afraid none of us will never know.

Manly Mcbeefington (Mr. ESC) @ May 10th 2009 8:23PM

Tmac wins? Holy crap!

Linkario Can you blame anyone for avoding YTMND?

Not even doom music justifies going to YTMND these days.

Markez @ May 10th 2009 8:32PM

I'd seen it before tmac posted it, but I opened it and cranked the volume anyway. Really pissed off my girlfriend on our way to the air races (Levi if you're around, you make it?) when I kept absentmindedly singing "slap your troubles away"

The Dark Wayne @ May 10th 2009 9:20PM

NEDM

Manly Mcbeefington (Mr. ESC) @ May 10th 2009 9:43PM

PUNCH THE KEYS FOR GOD'S SAKE!

Anticrawl @ May 10th 2009 10:00PM

@Markez

A little of both. If I don't freak out every time I see a native shown in a manner I don't agree with like as some sort of savage then he shouldn't go so far over just a word. It's a word, big deal, and not one person here directed it at him. I went to that extreme because to me it's nothing further from the truth. I live a very healthy successful happy life because that's the way I feel about the issue. Though to be sure I have been a part of organizations demanding government assistance, though it wasn't for me it was for my mother because our government secretly tested chemicals and small nuclear devices near the land they/we were forced to live on and devastated the health of all my elders, causing a rare form of thyroid cancer and negating the ability to absorb or regulate calcium and iron in the body, taking the life of everyone who ate food from that land or drank the water nearby for any part of their life before in their 30s except my mother and her two siblings (only because we finally received treatment she depends on to prolonged her life now). Unfortunately they deny all instances of such occurrences and quietly slip money to the few who know of it to stay silent. And of course anyone who speaks out is silenced. It enrages me to see especially a black man feel so entitled and act so outraged over something so trivial when I know there are worse things happening that need to be worked out instead. So yes I feel very strongly on the matter, even more so considering we as a people are very few, only a little more than 500 are still alive and living in the US.

Think I’ll go play some Prey now and hit people with my wrench hahaha, just finished this week’s family guy.

lanceyami03 @ May 10th 2009 10:24PM

I never expected to receive so much feedback. I'm Mexican American and I don't get pissed when people say beaner or spic or wetback. I think it's quite funny how people are still offended by words even today. Ever heard of sticks and stones? Also, I'm with Anticrawl.

Markez @ May 10th 2009 10:38PM

Fair enough, but we both know we'll never see outrage match up to the level of events that deserve it. Wish we could and all, but it'll always be a ridiculous imbalance, so we have to work with what we have to work with. My African-American friends would never appreciate an n word in most any context, and they're smart folks, so their feelings and opinions on it matter to me. Plus I agree with them.

If outrage were to match up to the events that were deserving of it, you'd think maybe someone would care on a bigger level about the virtual genocide the US perpetrated against Native Americans back in the day.

Foetoid @ May 11th 2009 7:21AM

Why are people voting up Anticrawl after he called everyone complete idiots and an inspiration for birth control when he was the one totally wrong on the 3D Realms topic:

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05/10/duke-nukem-forever-gameplay-surfaces-requests-we-come-get-some

I've never seen such an idiot. Calling the whole gaming community retarded, ignorant morons for being wrong when it was he who is wrong the whole time. Telling us all he's the one with the knowledge and the power, which is ironic since he's totally wrong and has no knowledge. Hilarious. I'll be ken to downvote anything this douche says ever again.

Mabui @ May 10th 2009 2:49PM

Seems to drag on - even for a commercial, not very well produced.

Mr Khan @ May 10th 2009 8:08PM

Probably be significantly truncated when its released to air, but as a mini-documentary sort of thing, its pretty awesome

Fernando Rocker @ May 10th 2009 2:54PM

The ad is great... bravo...

But the best part is at 1:25... the quote and the main theme starting to play is a great combination.

Here you guys can hear the full main theme and there is a link in the description to download the mp3 file.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieNVKIJjMJM