Von Kaiser



"Von Kaiser is going to serve for Kaiser Werner Werman, and this German Steel Machine knew that he would teach his fellow soldiers some boxing and other martial arts after retiring from boxing. I knew he would make me get an emotional trauma out of something that came out of a time when he got beat by a group of kids in one of his fighting classes. I knew this would scare me a lot."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Von Kaiser Returns

Von Kaiser (Japanese: フォンカイザー; Hepburn: Fon Kaizā) made his first appearance on the 1987 Nintendo Entertainment System game Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! as Little Mac's second opponent in the minor circuit.

Nicknamed "The German Steel Machine," Von Kaiser is a militant German ring veteran and also a boxing teacher at the military academy but is a novice challenge for Little Mac. He is easily stunned and floored with one of Mac's big uppercuts. However, Kaiser can still attack with his flurry of left and right uppercuts, but with any skill at all his celebration will be short-lived. In fact, Von Kaiser can be defeated simply by alternating left and right punches to his face after he misses an uppercut. Unlike most opponents, you can alternate left and right punches until he falls down; usually, the limit is 5 or 11. As shown in Punch-Out!! on the Wii, he suffers some emotional trauma, stemming from when he was beaten by a group of children in one of his boxing classes.

The theme music played for Von Kaiser is the opening of Richard Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, he gets hired for the Werman Reich as Werner Werman's bodyguard.