The beloved Great White Hope from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out is a renowned character who fought against all odds in the classic NES game. However after the first one, we never saw him again....

The question here is not what Nintendo or whatever company did with him in the real world, but as a little joke or speculation, what has Little Mac been doing since 1987 that brought him from this:

To this:

As recorded in the upcoming "Captain Rainbow" game, Little Mac seems to have fallen off from his heroic physique of the late 80s.

So, real world, game world, what do you think happened to Little Mac?

with no hope of an upcoming sequel, he got depressed and ate a lot.

or he shared Mike's Tyson vision in which Tyson said in an interview, "I want to eat your children."

Grew up and went to McDonalds?

Kidnapped by aliens.

No, Reptilians.

he's hiding... somewhere...

I think he might've been taking steroids all along and just blew up from water weight.

Or, he was embarrassed out of New York because of his fondness for wearing Pink jumpsuits. He was probably depressed after that and let himself go.

Didn't he die like, last week?

Crab People!

nintendo put him into a freezing chamber for much later use, so he will still look the same when they are finally ready to make another punch-out in 2015.