In 2011, you may recall a movie staring Hugh Jackman with robots beating the snot out of each other called 'Real Steel.' I did everything in my power to see it when it first came out, but slowly lost interest and waited until last September following Jon Jones refusing to fight Chael Sonnen at UFC 151. I figured that since we couldn’t watch the UFC that night, I’d have robots entertain me with a similar form of combat goodness. It was only a matter of time before someone decided to make it into an actual spectacle, and luckily, they’ve hired actual fighters and Olympic athletes to pilot the robots to victory. Among the roster sits Amanda Lucas, our favorite one of George Lucas’ kids who happens to also be an MMA fighter. Although her robot doesn’t fight in the opening round of competition, you now watch the entire first episode of Robot Combat League here on MiddleEasy, courtesy of SyFy.com.

If it’s your first time seeing robots fight, we suggest you rewatch the entire Terminator franchise and prepare yourselves for judgement day. There should be no doubt in any of your minds that everything in that movie is actually going to happen now. Somewhere in those films is the key to bringing down Skynet.

Comments   

 

+5 # Lefthea D. Kick 2013-02-21 15:41

This is actually a lot cooler than I would have expected.

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

-9 # chester 2013-02-21 15:46

Eh amerifags... better go kill some more in iraq

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

+5 # floppytall 2013-02-21 16:13

I'm never going to get across this bridge, I suck at riddles.

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

+3 # dyngusdog 2013-02-21 15:50

Wow that was awesome! I was not expecting them to be so advanced, and to move so fluidly. This is simultaneously the most awesome and terrifying thing I have ever seen. ALL HAIL OUR NEW ROBOTIC OVERLORDS!

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

-1 # Harian 2013-02-21 15:56

I wish there was a sport where actual people could fight

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

+2 # Hendolf Hitlerson 2013-02-21 16:31

This is so scripted its disgusting. Robot wars is real.

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

+3 # RCL_FAN 2013-02-21 17:09

Um Robot Wars? The show from England? That was like 15 years ago and those robots were shite and ran on 9V batteries! This is next level shite man.

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

+1 # Han YOLO 2013-02-21 17:16

As with all "reality" TV, I'm sure the interviews to the camera, and all the team drama is either scripted, or creatively edited. And the stuff of the guy building the robots was clearly shot after the fact. What really matters here is the fight. I really believe in future episodes the fights will take more precedent. I would love to see someone try to script a fight between two, 1000 pound robots being controlled by people who have never used them before. There's just too much to control, it wouldn't be possible.

And I'm also with RCL FAN. The robots in ROBOT WARS were puny. Nothing special about those. This is a gaint humanoid robot throwing punches that pack 2000 psi

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

0 # RCL_FAN 2013-02-21 17:03

Dudes. That was AWESOME! I had no idea robots like this even existed?? Holy fawk! I'm gonna be watching!

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

0 # MANbearPIGchild 2013-02-21 17:19

Better than I would have expected. When I first heard about it I thought it would be an oversized Rock'Em Sock'Em robots. This was not that. Those bots can fight!

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

0 # Dr. Frasier Crane-kick 2013-02-21 19:54

Steve Buscemis daughter is pretty hot,

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

0 # Dudes2Cents 2013-02-21 22:17

I done seen Real Steel and I'm here to tell y'all the winner of this here competition is gon' be none other than Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton.

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

+2 # StevO 2013-02-22 00:53

cmon you can clearly see this sh1t is scripted..... camera cuts dont match , first the robot is damaged , and 1 sec later u see him hit the other 1 with still no scratch on the body....the sparks spit out even before he gets hit, this show will not last long

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

-1 # SnakeJake 2013-02-22 07:19

I could do without the fake sparks, generic sound effects, and major tool Chris Jericho. But other than that it was quite entertaining.

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

 

0 # BeefWatson 2013-02-22 22:12

Yo it's three thousand thirty
I want yall to meet Deltron Zero
and Automator

Reply | Reply with quote | Quote

 

Refresh comments list
RSS feed for comments to this post

Add comment

Name (required)

Refresh

Send

Cancel

JComments