Shoutouts to Matt Turk for setting the bar so high before speedruns were even really a thing. If he didn’t I promise this game would not be close to where it is today. Respect.

Sinister1 Respect. The upmost Respect. Amazing job. Just phenomenal.

Sinister1 do we know anything else about him, or is he just some mystical figure who we haven’t learned anything about since? Like has he done runs on any other games?

@@australianclaude_527 He did a ghost and goblins run apparently but said the game was unplayable and that is the only other thing I have found. Dude is a mystery.

@Sinister1 Good to see such comradery and friendship in speedrunning. I still remember when Punch-Out! Wii was being broken, all because someone tried to SkipTheTutorial and revived this community’s interest in it. You all make up the prime example of what speedrunning, both for community and mentality, should strive to be.

Beating the Turk times was unbelievably difficult, and took incredible teamwork to achieve. I'm so glad the community was able to come together and bring this game to incredible heights. Turk truly was ahead of his time with how hard he pushed the game.

Imagine being so legendary that it takes a game's *entire community* several years to beat *most* of of your best times, and even then can only tie some of them. You can't beat Matt Turk because *that* is Matt Turk's true record.

Indeed

Reminds me of Hotarubi's Super Metroid record.

Turk's times was what motivated the entire community during the 2010's. Who knows what today's records would look like without him.

Raynman Gaming matt turk is the true definition of a major league gamer

Remember, Matt Turk himself was doing it "alone" for over half a decade between 2004 and 2009, and by "alone", this means he kept contact with a few people on non-public forum, because any public forum for speedruns of this game was straight up dead at the time. And these people were dedicated people who liked taking games apart, but not dedicated to single games the way someone like Matt Turk was. So they left one by one. He had a community but a declining one. When people found out this and wanted to start building up a community - THERE WAS NO COMMUNITY. Everyone who arrived and faced up to Turk's challenge was doing it from the seemingly dauntless perspective of knowing absolutely no one else who ever took this game seriously. Anyone who had previously was seemingly gone, or was never much too serious in the same place, or had moved on to other games LONG before the game go to the standard pushed by Matt Turk, and had no significant input to give. And it's hard to find the motivation to do so, be the first in on the challenge, without either the validation of accomplishment that other are paying atenttion, or support of others finding out or digging up forgotten old strats to help you along with. It's hard to keep playing the same old video game, over and over, one little bit at a time, for months on end at a time, with runs and re-runs numbering in the thousands, all for a number that, if you get it, you'll be posting about it a crowd equal in impact as pissing the accomplishment in the wind, and from whom you'll be getting no more helpful hands than from your own echo. It's not anyone that can do that. It takes someone outstanding. It's very, VERY likely that from late 2007 onwards, Matt Turk was himself improving the few times he had left to improve completely on the lonesome, and writing guides on a long-term perspective or archiving the knowledge, rather than a short-term one of any semblance of a community. In fact, it's NOT AT ALL A COINCIDENCE that his last and less precise accomplishment, Soda Popinski, went completely undocumented on methodology: He didn't find anyone that would care to archive that knowledge. He left the community the same way it was later found: Deserted. And yet, he preserved up to that point, and kept trying to get that world record on everything till the end despite that. Because he was outstanding.

For those wondering, as of 2022 Summoning Salt completely dominates Mike Tyson's Punch Out holding the number 1 record in all 6 categories of the game, including blindfolded. What a Chad.

I just looked that up because I was just like "oh no fucking way"...and it turns out you're completely right. SummoningSalt does indeed hold the world record for all categories _(except Single Segment High Score, but that's for points instead of time and it has two entries anyway)_

The truth no one wants you to know is Summoning Salt is Matt Turk’s son, and he’s been training him his whole life for this monumental achievement 😉

@@ncspite8635 lore??

The Quest to beat SummoningSalt

"The quest to beat summoning salt"

"I beat a Matt Turk time" almost as powerful and legendary a sentence as "I just beat the TAS"

No comments?? Woah lemme. Fix that

@@rreteertet525idk, id rather have 1.5k likes and no comments than 10,000 comments and any amount of likes. just means im right.

@@transnewt not about being right or not.

did he say this in the video? if so time stamp pls

@@thecyberpirate i believe he still has the record

I love how salt doesn’t even acknowledge the fact that he has the world record time in this game

And by more than 10 in-game seconds than the LEGENDARY 2 13???? HOW?

@@cl0p382 demon

I'd love a video on that

@@ObservationofLimits His very first video is actually about the history of the Mike Tyson fight. The TL; DR; is that, beyond insane levels of execution and luck, it's possible to down Mike Tyson enough before 1:30 that he does one more of those uppercuts. This lets you do a bunch more damage early and massively accellerates the fight.

Summoning salt just got a 14:52 like 3 days ago. Insane.

For those who don’t wanna check the dates, Salt got the World Record after creating this masterpiece of a video. He documented the history of this game & then beat everyone anyways…absolute legend

He has the highest record in all 6 categories including blindfolded lol, impossible for me to understand

My mans did the biggest flex possible

No wonder he explains the technical aspect of the game so good I been rewatching this for a couple of months now

You didn't check the dates yourself, he already had the world record before creating this masterpiece of a video.

Imagine being such a powerful storyteller that you manage to include an earth-shattering twist, that forces your viewers to completely reevaluate the video they just spent an hour watching, in a non-fiction documentary about _speedrunning._ Honest to God, my jaw dropped seeing the ending for the first time. What an unfathomable chad.

45:06

then you go back and rewatch the Mike Tyson part of the video and realize he was humble bragging *hard* without you even realizing

@@jaykobsonier8786 Oh, _absolutely_

@@jaykobsonier8786 it was so humble though 😭😭

Biggest plot twist since...I can't even come up with anything good enough to do it justice.

That ending hit me like a fucking truck dude. Not only do you see how even more insane improvements have been made to beat these seemingly "impossible" times, but it caps off with the creator of the fucking video itself completely blasting apart Mike Tyson by 12 in-game seconds. My jaw was on the floor. Absolute king shit. What an emotional rollercoaster, and a fantastic video.

What makes Salt's record even more impressive is that in order to get his time, you need enough short delays to get a mid-1:25 or earlier 2nd Knockdown so Tyson can throw one uppercut in Phase 3, which saves a few seconds. To this day, Salt is the only player on the current leaderboard to achieve this, everyone else didn't get this extra uppercut, ending in a 2:05. The limit is 1:58, but you're more likely to get a 2:00 flat

​@@silverflight01he got 2:00

fun fact: about 2 years ago, when this video first came out, i watched it and was inspired. after a bit of practice, i officially became the world record holder for the blindfolded speedrun of the first don flamenco fight. it's a bit of a freebee but it's still nice to be a record holder :)

Nice!

Congrats dude that's so cool!

I may be late but lad you definitely earned it

Awesome, good job bro

Why are you lying? SummoningSalt has the record, and second place is 5 years ago.🤨

this man is so humble he has the WR and doesnt even mention himself once in this vid

SummoningSubtlety

holy shit he has EVERY record for all the categories

@@jstar3382 by huge margins

@@abbyh5158 for every category?

@@mitlanderson for all the full run categories not individual levels

I'm just glad to know Matt Turk wasn't found to have forged his speedruns and he got his times through nothing more than years of practice and honed, unprecedented skills, thus making the times all the sweeter to have been beaten

We actually don't know that his times were legitimate though. One of his times was even impossible to achieve and had to be revised up a second.

​@@dang476He described how to achieve almost all of em, right?

@@yamsdeveah, the only one he didn’t was Soda Popinski, I think. And he showed on video his Mike Tyson WR, so he probably did in fact did all of the rest legitimately, as Myke Tyson is the hardest fight in the game

Can we talk about how, with no way to catch cheating like today... This guy got ACTUALLY legitimately insane times and held all these records. It's fucking insane

It is very odd if you think about it. Pretty much the only way to get these kind of records is to script the fight and know exactly what to do (and then do it flawlessly). It's not really something just being "really good" at the game can achieve. So how did he know these scripts back then? Did he also use TAS to find the scripts but just didn't tell anyone else? Did he have inside knowledge about the development of the game to know some of these exploits (and again, didn't share them)? It just doesn't add up how it took multiple people, who were dedicated to beating his times, several years just to figure out HOW to get a time so low, and yet he did it many years prior, with seemingly no help and no video to show off how? Hmmm...

@@mattjulson8070 oh come on matt, we know you are the best

@@mattjulson8070 This used to be a thriving community. He probably used other strategies. There were probably TAS before. However, remember, Salt says most discussion boards were deleted. There were MANY people at that time who were speed running this game at an elite level. Hope this clears things up :)

@@mattjulson8070 as someone already said, it's not like he did it in a vacuum But also, this is boxing. If you look behind the violence you'll discover that boxing is exactly that: making strategies, adapting, outsmarting every opponent So a really good player would do exactly that And now if there are a bunch of really good players on forums and email chains, they'll talk and make even better strategies They considered the times as real back then and put them on the leader board, because Matt must've been a very credible person who's backed up the knowledge and skill through years of posts and emails and engagement in the community. But sadly all of that is lost to time

@@mattjulson8070 I hope you didn't "Hmmm..." for too long before you realized the guy acknowledging Matt Turk's times as legitimate was the world record holder for Mike Tyson at the time of this video. And also made the video

Really great retelling of how brutally difficult it was to improve Turk's records. I'm so glad Turk pushed the game so hard so early when speedrunning as a whole was in its infancy. It really was significant to have been able to get close to any of his legendary records, let alone tie or break any of them. Shoutouts to everyone for pushing this game to the limit!

I would pin this one too if I could lol

@@SummoningSalt Totally understandable lol

Why can you not pin it?

@@cringem6660 Because you can only pin one I assume, and he already pinned Sinister1's comment.

I love Khananaphone's reaction to beating a Matt Turk time. This guy who barely speed runs the game, grinding attempts on a fight no one wants to do because it is all luck, no skill, gets the record by a fraction of a second after hundreds of attempts, and all he says is "Hey I beat Don 2."

He's a Giga chad

"Hey, I beat Don 2 :D"

The programmers of Mike Tyson's Punch Out really deserve some credit for their great work. This game is from the 1980's.

My thoughts exactly. This ain't no simple button-smasher game. A lot of thought went into these fights....

@@Nebol And then some of them are just fucking weird with how much RNG are they have. I wonder if they just wanted to see how random they could make them and if anyone would notice lol

@@yesno7264 they had to to make fights less repetitive, coding a 1/8 chance is easier than making a bunch of new sprites, new mechanics, etc. they literally had to choose between gameplay and making the game fun or making it less random. I guess don 2 doesn’t make that much sense though.

It's such a perfect use of randomness to utterly flummox casual players and truly make the game feel alive. There are still design lessons to be learned from that 35 years later. Especially because it's the polar opposite of the conventional wisdom on "designing for speedrunners".

Just realized, this is the only Summoning Salt video that has a Speed Runner's name in it. Just goes to show how dominant Matt Turk really was.

Quest for World Record Perfection is basically Quest for Stopping Matthias from getting 32/32

@@XkinhoPT yea I am still mad at what Dan did

@@micropizza2104 I legitimately had to make a playlist of his videos with that one excluded because it upset me so much that he never got his 32 lol

@@micropizza2104 same, I just cannot watch that one again even though I have watched summoning salt video like 20 times for each one. It was one of my favorite summoning salt video when it got release and I have watched it multiple time until the incident, watching it now just make me salty lol, name check out I guess.

If all 14 slayers of Matt Turk have themselves been beaten, you should make a video about it called The Quest to Avenge Matt Turk.

Salt is the avenge of Matt turk at this point, holding both the best Mike Tyson and littarly dominating every catagory

Well then he’d just be doing a video about himself, Salt has routinely proven to be the second coming of Matt Turk, dominating multiple categories at a time, sometimes even holding every record in the game (including all individual fights, single segment playthroughs, and even blindfolded runs) at the same time.

@Angelic you’re not the first to suggest that, and they haven’t been seen in the same room at the same time...

'cept the glass joe record, everyone and their mothers have done that

@@Slender_Man_186 Salt's too humble to do that, I think. Guy had (at time of video) the WR for Tyson and didn't even acknowledge it verbally.

Never gonna forget that feeling when I saw Salts name with the WR of Tyson. Seriously admire someone who doesnt rub it in or anything, only mentioning it with the rest of the times. I seriously love this channel

I mean he could totally run it in and I wouldn’t be mad, it’s quite amazing what he did it just makes him that much cooler that he chooses not to flex

Heck, he rarely refers to himself by name. His Double Dash Shortcut video has him refer to himself as "Some random dude"

Not only did he set the World Record, he left detailed strategies behind so the future generations could analyze his methods and improve them for better results. What a legend

indeed

@@ShivamYadav-fp1hb post more plz

Matt Turk truly understands speed running. It’s both a competition, but it’s also a community project where everyone is working together to push a game to its limits.

@@apothecurio it's truly amazing what people can achieve when they work together

Also he left one (Piston Honda 2) for them to figure out themselves :)

This is still my favorite summoning salt video. The premise is just so good, and the story is epic. I've come back so many times over the past 2 years and Matt turk is still this mythical figure in the community.

Ultimately, isn't this what Punch-Out is about? Taking down a seemingly insurmountable foe through your own hard work and thinking.

I think it's cool that the community honored Matt Turk's records. While I know it was common back then to not record your speedruns, other communites might not honor a record without more proof. The fact that they took the time to look into it, and then were set on beating the best - is what makes this sport so special. Like these players could have taken an easy out, but were like - hell no, we know what the actual best time is and we are GOING TO beat it.

The speedrunning community basically made a 5 year project out of validating all of Turk's times. The title doesn't suggest it, but this is an homage to Turk. Greatest MTPO player fosho.

@@SB-pf5rc I never realized that until you pointed out, but your comment gave me chills. You are so right. I am new to the speedrunning community (only have seen videos from Summoning Salt). But man I have so much respect and admiration for what this community does. Literally incredible.

Too bad they’re all fake besides the Tyson fight

@@commcrimson9999 troll opinion

I really like that having those records broken meant Matt was vindicated as legendary and honest. His times in my book where all absolutely legitimate. I hope Wii fit's Matt boxer is honouring him

Summoning Salt: Frame delays, guard manipulation, frame-perfect punches. The fastest Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! times had all been won by one man: Matt Turk. Before disappearing from the Internet, the words he spoke drove countless speedrunners out to their NES. Matt Turk: My record times? They're yours if you want them! Beat them! I left all my strategies there on RedTom's Punch-Out!! Summoning Salt: And so speed runners set sights on the Quest to Beat Matt Turk, in pursuit of surpassing his records. The world has truly entered a Great Speedrunning Era!

:thumbsup:

Hammer out a parody of the 4Kids rap and I'll _really_ be impressed.

@@RRVCrinale Dreamin'! Don't give it up, Sinister! Dreamin'! Don't give it up, Zallard! Dreamin'! Don't give it up, Hazard! Dreamin'! Don't give it give it up give it up give it up give it up give it up give it up SPEEDRUN! Here's how the story goes, we find out 'bout some records on RedTom's site, there's no doubt The speedrunner whose eye is on it, he'll sing I'll be the best Speedrunner, I'm gonna be the King! Ya-yo, ya-yo, ya-yo... oh-ho... His name is Sinister (That's Sinister1!) Gonna find out strategies! He's done it blindfolded! (How did that happen?) Yo-ho-ho, with a lot of practice! Ya-yo, ya-yo... His name's Zallard, always getting better! And a G-A-M-E-R Harzard's not shy The Speedrunner community, comin' through, doin' their thing Trying to defeat the former King, they are gonna beat him! Ya-yo, ya-yo, ya-yo, oh-ho... Punching Out for One Record! It's the name of the game! In the Forums! Ya-yo, ya-yo... Speedrun for One Record!

Arittake no yume wo kaki atsume

@@DaShoopdahoop Boom! I'm impressed.

You ever heard about Fermat's Last Theorem? The guy wrote a note in a book's margin claiming he'd found a great proof for this math theorem but didn't have room to write it there. For hundreds of years, other mathematicians tried to find a proof, while many doubted that Fermat ever had proven it, thinking maybe he was just trolling all along. But at last, in the 1990s, someone did find a proof, and developed all kinds of innovative new techniques to do so. Maybe it never mattered whether Fermat really had a proof, maybe the important thing was how he inspired others to strive for something. When you talked about Turk's records that had no video evidence, it reminded me of that story.

I wish I could save comments on youtube, just for these interesting tidbits.

That's pretty interesting

That's literally two of the records in this video, though. No joke

Reminds me of the last guardian/secret

Plot twist: fermat already discovered group theory, elliptic curves and scheme theory etc but he was too lazy to publish it

I believe Matt Turk should be listed as the honorary WR holder for the 4 tied records. What a complete legend.

Matt Turk getting a few frames off theoretically perfect on some of the fights well before speedrunning was a thing was insane. Imagine all that grind with no one around to tell about it.

Convenient that he did something borderline impossible without recording it.

@@dang476 Must be pretty lucky to guess 4 perfect times in a row. "convinient" lol

@@dang476So you're suggesting he by pure accident just happened to guess on times that coincided with several TAS times and on some were very close to TAS times but not once did he use a time that was quicker than TAS. All this before these TAS times existed. So basically you choose to believe he by some mathematical miracle landed on those times and cheated instead of him just actually beating it on those times?

I love that summoning Salt explains things like TAS and frame rules just in case there is someone new watching. He's like one of those teachers that goes over basic stuff just in case there is someone in the class that might be a little behind and might be too afraid to ask for clarification. You are the salt of the earth.

the “summoning” salt of the earth! no? ok ok sorry

@@_rifle_3805. . . . . . [chirp chirp] . . . [chirp chirp]

Also if you don’t know he’s a speed runner too

can't imagine being matt turk and seeing your old hobby records kickstarting an entire community rebirth of speedrunning. the emotions he must've felt seeing it explode back to life, solely because of how much his work inspired new kids. man.

21:40 When he realized he did absolutely perfectly and the rng screwed him over. You can feel the pain in his voice.

Me, a Rise Jesus Christ RPG player: first time?

RNGesus was not happy that day

Matt Turk is like those lore characters in epic fantasy where the characters have to dig up old lore and shit and figure out techniques that he already knew about years ago. Mad.

Lmao he is the Gaunter O Dimm of speedrunning

Okay but we shouldnt forget about mchazard who is the only one who knows about the elder magic even if he cant master it himself

the legend 27

What's crazy is he shows up elsewhere too. Like cynthia from pokemon

if anyone’s ever read Enders game that’s exactly what mazer rackham is like

There's something poetic about the fact that the very final beacon of hope wasn't from an old TAS, it didn’t come from McHazard's TAS efforts, it came from someone from Turk's era. Someone who had been in the speedrunning scene of Punch-out in the distant past, and came back

59:06 You do not understand how hard this hit me. I’m crying. Like. I don’t know why?? But something about it just… is so cool. The way to told this story, and how cool it must be to have your name there, standing over Mike himself at the very end. Just hit so hard. Good job Salt.

Like a listening to an man telling a tale then he leaves only to find a mural of the legend being the man...

*I just love these incredible quotes from the most powerful beings in the world 😍😍* Dr. Manhattan: "We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings." Dormammu: "Your world is now my world, like all worlds." Sinister1: "I just beat the motherfuckin' TAS."

Does anyone have the timestamp for that last one?

@@seansquiers6506 It's around the 16 minute mark.

These videos are perfect insomnia cures. I fall asleep to one of your vids almost every night. (Of course I actually watch them when a new one comes out but the old ones are a perfect comfort soundtrack) The voiceover, the bgm, the fact that it’s just interesting enough to keep my mind off the anxieties of the day while being comforting and sensical enough to let me sleep…I love everything about all these vids. Thanks for making them.

It's like a classic sci-fi story. An archeologist discovers the ruins of an ancient civilization, with remnants of technology vastly superior to our own. However this time, the ancients left behind enough documentation for us to reverse-engineer their technology, and even refine it

I love how all these people came together to collectively beat Matt, but can we just sit down and appreciate for a moment how in the fuck Matt found all these strats in the first place?

and the fact that, even after FIVE YEARS of waiting for his record to be broken he actually came back and beat it again

I'm mostly surprised that his records were all universally believed to be true even without any video proof.

@@dahSweep Well he gave detailed descriptions of the methods he used for most of the fights. Besides nobody recorded runs back then for pretty much any game you look at. So yeah his runs were definitely real.

@@xxhobocatxx2869 Also I believe he has done speedruns of other games like Contra with video proof, so he's generally accepted as a reliable runner.

This is an amazing sort of story that I don't imagine being possible in more modern ages of live streaming games; to find a completely dormant speedrunning community with a list of records and there being no immediate clues how such times were reached leaves quite the mystery.

Why did I cry at the end when Matt Turks final record was broken. I can’t even begin to imagine how proud he must be of this community. To think his every record he set was finally beat after several years of dedication. It’s almost like, he can rest easy now.

It's crazy how a single guy created such a legacy to where the video isn't "The history of punch out speedruns" it's "The Quest to Beat Matt Turk" and that such a legendary community was formed around it, full of some absolute madlads. Amazing, everyone of those people is amazing.

I've fallen asleep so many times to this video. Matt Turk is so legendary he knocks me out in record times.

Matt Turk is not a player. He is the game. A force of nature. When you speedrun this game, you are not trying to beat or tie the world record, but to beat or tie Matt Turk. He is beyond a player, he is Punch Out.

McHazard is seriously the back alley TAS black market that everyone goes to when they have no hope left

I always pictured him as more of the Otacon on the radio for the Solid Snake runners.

He's like the Golden Super Leaf you get in some Super Mario games when you die like a thousand times

"hey kid, you wanna buy some TAS?"

Awesome

He is their doc ;)

I would love to see Matt Turk re emerge from the shadows and retake all of his records, would be the greatest villain arc ever

Or maybe SummoningSalt IS Matt Turk. And the reason why he never uploaded video was because he was also a teenager. (I asked him lol) (also the e-mail contains a rickroll).

@@fireyfan25 💀

I get actual chills when Matt Turk's last standing record slowly fades off of the screen at 56:42.

That twist ending when he showed off the Mike Tyson WR... man is absolutely humble for not mentioning this even one time during the main video. Really stuck to the script and focused entirely on the fall of Matt Turk's records.

Salt still holds every record except single segment high score, and his leads range from a few seconds to almost two minutes. Insane

this story genuinely feels like one piece: the man who achieved it all inspiring everyone else to try their best and overcome him.

I love how Matt Turk managed to destroy an entire speed running community just by his skill level being way too good for anyone to actually beat him

My cynical ass kept expecting this to end up being a "it was revealed he lied/cheated" type thing. I'm so glad I was wrong. This was a fantastic video.

Jake The Hawk SAME

@@JakeTheHawk World record is nice and all but we all know the true badge of honor is being so good people think you are cheating.

He is basically doom slayer or this game. A man feared by even the speedrun demons.

420 likes so imma not press that

mad respect to matt turk for giving out his strategies and allowing the people to beat his scores

How the hell did this make me get all teary Edit: and then I watched the end and saw SummoningSalt got the WR for Tyson and now I am crying, I hate this, I'm happy and miserable

Can we all just take the time to appreciate the time and effort Summoning Salt takes to make these incredible video essays?

Intro: 0:00 Glass Joe: 4:05 Don Flamenco: 4:50 King Hippo: 6:14 Mr. Sandman: 9:31 Piston Honda 2: 13:52 Great Tiger: 18:45 Piston Honda (part one): 20:00 Von Kaiser: 21:58 Piston Honda (part two): 24:15 Don Flamenco 2: 25:02 Bald Bull: 28:23 Bald Bull 2: 31:17 Super Macho Man: 33:18 Mike Tyson: 40:46 Soda Popinski (part one): 49:07 Recap: 55:31 Soda Popinski (part two): 56:11 Outro: 56:45

this is still my favorite vid on this channel. the presentation, the stakes, the expert explaining of all the strats. its so satisfying to see people get closer and closer to beating matt turk, and the final montage of all the best moments leading up to the final victory is amazing. this is a masterpiece

"I just beat the TAS" is one of the most powerful sentences in any human language

I still think VAJ said it better. Well, louder at least.

"I just beat the TAS" Did you perhaps mean, "Rise Against the Machine" ?

@@Damaniel3 "I BEAT THE TAS Y'ALL!!! SECOND LAP MAN!!!"

Yes! Hell of a statement!

It’s up there with “I beat a Matt Turk time”

3 years later, and part of me is still shocked that a titan of a man could come out of nowhere, place his cock straight on the table, and then leave, PLUS the fact that he was legit as far as everyone knows, is mind-boggling. I want an interview with matt turk in the modern day to hear his perspective.

Matt Turk and Matthias Rustemeyer. The two greats of speedrunning. We stand here, waiting. Waiting for the third Matt who will bring us to the promised land. When will he arrive? What game will he run? Only time will tell.

The Matt-rinity of Speedrunning

Dude had a group of ppl helping him, Turk did all this on his own when NO ONE else was speed running, and the records lasted almost a decade. Turk is a legend first and foremost.

That one guy becoming the giant that so many had to band together to topple. Feels like a D&D adventure.

Current MTPO records as of Aug 12, 2023 (According to website Speedrun) Glass Joe: 42.00s^ (TAS Perfect)+ Holder: Various Date: Various Von Kaiser: 35.61s (TAS Perfect) Holder: zallard1, mPap, jefeman82, JLet, Eric_the_Great, Cranklinson, Jdurg, Nolan414, and KThree Date: Various Piston Honda: 39.97s Holder: Nolan414 Date: July 16, 2022 Don Flamenco: 14.97s (TAS Perfect) Holder: Various (oldest video by zallard1) Date: Various King Hippo: 37.61s (TAS Perfect) Holder: 19 Players (Oldest video by zallard1) Date: Various Great Tiger: 47.48s (TAS Perfect) Holder: 16 Players (Apparently zallard1 shows up twice) Date: Various Bald Bull: 53.99s Holder: jefeman82 Date: November 16, 2021 Piston Honda 2: 39.97s (TAS Perfect) Holder: SummoningSalt, JLet, and jefeman82 Date: Various Soda Popinski: 44.82s Holder: jefeman82 Date: April 15, 2023 Bald Bull 2: 1m 13.97s Holder: jefeman82 Date: September 14, 2021 Don Flamenco 2: 1m 09.97s Holder: davep4948 Date: December 21, 2020 Mr Sandman: 2m 16.82s Holder: lucandor158, jefeman82, and Jdurg Date: Various Super Macho Man: 45.25s Holder: JLet Date: August 13, 2021 Mike Tyson: 2m 00.97s Holder: SummoningSalt Date: July 25, 2020 Fun Fact: Salt's time can be achieved by having enough short delays that Mike Tyson will start Phase 3 by squeezing in one more uppercut before switching to jabs. As of now, Salt is the only person to achieve this with video proof. The theorized limit is a 1:58, but you pretty much need perfect luck, which is about as insane as the time FatPotatoSeal got perfect luck on _Super Punch-Out!!_ but choked on the final fight. ^There actually isn't a Glass Joe category on the site, but everyone pretty much knows this one +TAS Perfect refers to being tied with McHazard's TAS

I love how Summoning Salt, the current world record holder for Mike Tyson, never lets his own participation in the speedrunning community get in the way or steal the limelight away from the overall narrative of everyone coming together to push these games to their absolute limit. One of the reason why this is the number 1 channel I go to for videos about speedrunning

Update on that: A day after he finished the video, he beat the piston honda 2 world record.

Another reason: He's not an asshole. Seriously, a bizarre amount of speedrunning channels are hosted by racists and homophobes.

Amelia Otherheart Gaming in general does that a lot. Just look at any WH40k lore video or anything lol. It’s all terrible

@@lexbrightraven8049 to be fair to the 40k universe that's sorta how it be. :/

I have alot of respect for Matt Turk. Even his records fell at the same time as the last two speedruns Matt sets the bar for reaching what no other gamer could go. Salute.

The moment starting from 49:10 where it just goes "nobody had any idea how Turk did it" gives me chills. He was so far ahead of everyone that he was faster than what was thought to be even *theoretically possible*, for years. An absolute domination. This is one of my favorite videos on all of YouTube. Thank you, Summoning Salt. It's a tour de force.

I bet Matt was really happy knowing he was the reason all these people pushed themselves to their absolute limits.

this is my favourite all-time SS video. Such a wonderful story, it's almost mythical.

I’m late to the party, but these speed run videos are better than any drama show I’ve ever seen. Son much fun, keep up the good work

Matt Turk was so dominant he almost killed the running community for a game because people assumed he was unbeatable

and so dominant he pushed the running community for a game somewhere it never could have gotten otherwise. the duality of being really good at punch out

Damn

I do think that Matt Turk might be me favourite runner of all time

@@mythalieon7829 him along with some other legendary people. Matthias, Andrew G, Karl and many more of course.

I don't get it but i'm sure it means something.

the fact that he came up with these strategies and execution years before anyone else and still barely got beat shows that he is one of the goats

Dude it's so crazy that there was this whole community of Punch-out players who already figured this stuff out... And then all that history was lost and a new age of speedrunners had to pick up the pieces. Shits so crazy, man

For those coming here near the end of 2021: Summoning Salt has now pushed the Mike Tyson time as low as 2:00.97(!)

X_X he's just flexing at this point

that's 2 seconds short of the TAS holy smorks

He set the wr for blindfolded single segment

Jesus Christ

Summoning salt you absolute madman, i just looked at the speedruns and you really do hold the world record in every one except high score. That's actually the single greatest thing i have ever seen. Never has my respect been higher.

Just for the sake of it, I checked: we're in 2023, and SummoningSalt *STILL* has pretty much every world record on this game, the latest established being in August 21st. Absolute. Madlad.

imagine being so beyond cracked at a game that it takes 5 years, multiple people, and TAS strats to beat your times

This isn’t the only game Matt Turk did speedruns for. He’s not beyond cracked at this game only....

Barf Bagg Calm down bud

Barf Bagg As long as it gives a legacy then I'd call it a life.

Barf Bagg This is clearly a personal thing, what you define as life and I define are two completely different things.

nice bait

I've watched each of your videos probably ten times, some more, but this one has to have one of my favourite endings. It was so delightfully surprising seeing for the first time the final name appear beside the Tyson record. Thank you for making these videos.

This is one of my all time favourite videos on this channel and probably on the whole of YT, honestly. The skill level these guys had - and in some cases still have - is phenomenal. I started playing the game on the Switch port recently and while I've tied the Glass Joe 42.00 a couple of times, I'm useless at anything else - I beat the first three fights and can't even beat Don 1 lol Update: I've beaten the game up to Soda Popinski

It took so many people, thousands of them, to beat one man. But such fight brought an infinitely shining light to speedrunning.

Summoning Salt, in my humble opinion this is your magnum opus. So much research was put into this, and considering you are a runner of this game, I can tell you had a good time making this video and that you enjoyed the result. Not only was Matt Turk amazing at this game so was every runner in this video. Sinister1, Zallard1, Summoning Salt, and every other runner featured in this video. I’ve rambled but I just wanted to say great video, you’re amazing.

this is potentially the most legendary humblebrag of all humblebrags, with a 59 minute buildup. you love to see it

It's not really a humblebrag; those are something else. It's amazing how SS really seems to almost avoid receiving any kind of glory for his Tyson accomplishments. In his other Tyson video he only mentioned himself once when he took the record, and that was it.

I've noticed Karl Jobst does the same thing, he did a new Goldeneye video recently and didn't even mentioned that he himself broke a few of the long standing records.

Yes! I howled laughing when I saw it.

I want a, "Quest to Beat Summoning Salt" video in the future. Lol.

I was floored once I saw that. I actually had no idea that SummoningSalt was a speed runner. I just thought he made top tier videos about speed running.

Assuming that he was the first person to complete those unchangeable world records, then it's only fair to give this legend credit for them

Man singlehandedly made the game popular again. Respect

These speed running series' are one of the most underrated collection of videos on YouTube... These "lesser known" games (at least in modern times) have some of the most dramatic histories and I dont think anyone could tell their story's better

One of my favorite things about the history of this is the fact that we just took Turk’s word that he got those times. Like he could have made up everything but then speed runners either matched the times or got better times. Love that.

Amazing. I played this game so much as a kid I knew many of these strategies. I didn't know anything about frames and certainly had no tool assists, it was all feel and I had fun doing it. That guard manipulation on Piston Honda is what I did for fun, I had no clue I was manipulating anything LOL. He was just so fun to fight. I should check my saved times on my super punchout cartridge and see how close I got.

imagine if matt turk came out of nowhere and took all the records back in like a week

MK64's Matthias moment

Bonus points if he refused to post videos still. Kinda like how his super sus clap back was with no video in an era of all videos.

Mattias

He might?

Barf Bagg nice b8 m8

Matt Turk is like Rome - he paved an enduring legacy and mythos that took a whole civilization and many centuries to equal and, eventually, surpass. That's genuinely bad ass.

That 2’01,25 is amazing. Huge respect to Matt Turk and all the other speedrunning heroes after him. This is truly an amazing story. All these speedrunning guys deserve a special place in my heart. I love this content

God this is my favorite video from you. It's perfect in terms of narration and drama. Even just the first 2:30 is so good at setting the tone and hooking in the audience. Salt, did you ever take classes on how to make presentations or write better? If so, it really shows.

I love how well that ending was edited. It’s so easy to put things on the beat, but a lot of people wouldn’t do it.

Not only is this video highly informative and entertaining, it is also one big setup for the greatest humblebrag of all time

Ok but can we respect what kind of god Matt Turk has to be to have “Turk times” become a term in speed running

@@drugsilove2364 Elaborate, please.

He won’t, he’s just going around being salty and copypasting the same thing over and over.

@@ketsupo387 I see

@@drugsilove2364 well all of his records were eventually broken or tiee

28:23 One of my favorite parts of this video. This is the core of running to me. Strats, skill and luck through sheer determination. Music choice makes this feel like putting in a grind of work.

I always come back to this video every few months. This is the best story SS has told in my opinion.

I can't imagine how sinister and the other guys felt. walking into an abandoned game community to find the footsteps of a giant. it took them years and many shortcuts to imitate what he did. i read another comment talking about matt's dedication. how we watched the community die out around him and how he kept on going on his own and left detailed records for posterity. He told everyone EXACTLY how he had done it, and it took years of effort from some of the best speedrunners on the planet to even come close. Legendary. The Only True God Gamer.

i didn't think it would be that interesting when i started this episode but i really enjoyed the storyline of this one! great work as always SS!

It took an entire army of people and bots to beat 1 man. What a legend.

Salt revealing he has the Mike Tyson record by 12 seconds is like when the old man is telling you an epic tale by a fire and as he walks away into the darkness you realize the story was about him

tommy karrick You may be wondering why I know so much about Michael Scarn, that's because I am Michael Scarn

he made the whole video just to flex he got the record

Liam Rea but he barely mentions him being the world record holder for tyson?

"of course i know him, he's me"

Oddly specific, *eh*

I've watched hundreds of videos of Speedruns from back in the day and not a single one has had a Speedrunner be THIS ahead of the crowd for this long

There was 2 things All signs pointed to his times being legit. And his skills were way way beyond anyone at the time. Absolute legend turk is

I honestly don't understand why there are so many people clicking "dislike" on this video. You did an amazing job explaining everything from start to finish.

Coming back to the video quite some time after I first watched it, it’s incredible how that early Nintendo crafted such a rule heavy, really complex, fun and perfect fighting game on the NES.