Soda Popinski



"Huh?! What's this!? It's that spandex briefs-wearing, soda-addicted, mustache-bearing, bald-headed boxer who's in the WVBA World Circuit! From Russia! Soda Popinski! He's gonna crush me now like what he said to Little Mac in a match! With something to drink for his victory, and he might even hit me with only his hand on his back! Well, I need to defeat Soda Popinski without getting through the damn ropes before he could punch me down to my own doom! Oh, and what's worse is that he wields two machine guns as well! Now he'll know if he can make that he'll make Butterbean, Cricket, Poppy, Dazzle and Jasper fear. Yeah, then he'll be responsible for closing down her café since they're wanted for capitalism and Rubyism. He can't close them down."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Butterbean's Revenge

Soda Popinski (Japanese: ソーダ・ポピンスキー Hepburn: Sōda Popinsukī) is a fictional Russian boxer from Nintendo's Punch-Out!! series. He first appeared in the 1984 arcade game Super Punch-Out!!, where he was known as Vodka Drunkenski (ウォッカ・ドランケンスキー Wokka Dorankensukī). He was permanently renamed to Soda Popinski in 1987's Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! to avoid controversy. His country of origin was originally the USSR, but this was changed to Russia in the 2009 Punch-Out!! for the Wii due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.