User blog comment:Exotoro/DONKEY KONG: DEEPEST LORE?/@comment-24196478-20140801002100

at first I thought Retro was making a third DK game

Anyways, that theory of the wrestler could be true seeing as Mario was the referee in the original Punch-Out. Could mean that technically Little Mac is from the Mario universe as well.

Then there's the whole "Cranky is DK's Grandfather" thing....