BattleBots

This is the legend of Flipmaster Toro.

Two seasons past, he was vanquished by

Atomic Wedgie in a fierce quarterfinal match.

In the year of the Snake last season, he perished

in the semi-finals under the furious fist of Minion.

Now his path to not enlightenment must cross the sinister Little Blue Engine.

Behold, the super heavyweight semi-finals.

Tonight, Comedy Central Sports presents Battle Box.

It's a science fair on steroids.

In the super heavyweight semi-finals, former

champ Dissector wants to grab another nut.

But first, he has to slap some manners into rookie new cruelty.

And heavyweight stealth Terminator has orders

to dispatch center punch with extreme prejudice.

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We're in San Francisco with hundreds of neat packages of metal

menace all wrapped up with no place to go but the Battle Box.

Hi everybody, I'm Tim Green and with me

through the good times and the bad, Bill Dwyer.

Always here for you, Tim. What a night tonight. Super heavyweights, semi-finals.

Can you say serious carnage? I think you can.

I can. I can also say let's check in with Carmen

Electra. She's not just another face in the crowd.

Do me a favor. Get Clint Eastwood on the phone.

Because I think we're about to see the good, the

bad and the ugly all in a span of three minutes.

I talked to both the builders in the first

bout and they're fixing to demolish each other.

Sucks to be them, great to be us watching safe and sound in the sidelines.

You feel me guys?

I tell you, I'm feeling like I want to see the big boys hauling off on each other.

In the quarters, Little Blue Engine pulled a Titanic and

ran into Iceberg but this time the Iceberg lost 36-9.

Alright, let's blow this thing out.

Joshua Bryant, Little Blue Engine, San Diego, California.

This is just a fun sport. I like seeing what 300 pound robots can do to each other.

Breeze and Bradley. Alexander Rose. Toro.

Strategies are keep flipping him until he dies.

Alright, let's rock the box.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a super heavyweight semi-final matchup.

Introducing in the red square, to my right, you'll

be feeling a Little Blue, black and blue that is,

after tangling with this brutal butt. Sound off for Little Blue Engine.

Builder Joshua Bryant calls Little Blue Engine a fork truck.

And in the blue square, his nasty flipping arm is strong like a bull.

Repeat after me. Here's Toro. Toro. Toro.

That flipper has 15% more power this season and it has shown.

The box is locked, the lights are on. It's robot fighting time.

Semi-final super heavyweight robot fighting time.

Little Blue Engine maneuvering, carefully

trying to avoid that flipper but can't do it.

Twice already flipped by Toro.

Toro. Little Blue Engine caught. One of the spikes is caught and flipped.

It's not caught anymore. It's not caught anymore.

That spike was caught in the kill saws. He took

a grinding and then he took a flip from Toro.

Little Blue Engine looks absolutely bewildered out there.

What can he do now? He's got to just start poking him with those spikes.

He can take it like a man, Bill. He can take it like a man.

You know what? I'm a man and I don't think I can take that, Toro.

Uh-oh. There goes the wheel. Wow.

Little Blue Engine now wheel-less.

Twisted spikes.

Meandering about the floor. Toro moving in for the kill.

Oh, heavy uppercut.

That was a lift. Yeah, that came in low and deep.

To the solar plexus.

Oh, now he's got him in the entrance area.

Oh, another flip. Little Blue Engine flipped and flipped again.

And he's dangerously near the pulverizer.

Right now, it's dangerous for Little Blue Engine to be near anything.

Oh, another flip.

Little Blue Engine's just absolutely distorted.

He's been twisted. He's been pounded. He's been flipped.

And yet, he keeps going.

And Toro's staying after it.

And look at how he goes right over the kill saws.

And he's about to lose another wheel.

Now, when the Little Blue Engine says,

I think I can, was he talking about falling apart?

He did not know that Toro was waiting for him.

And now the pulverizer.

Striking Little Blue Engine again.

Oh, folks, you might want to avert your eyes.

This is becoming quite gruesome.

Me, I like it.

And we're looking to see what happens.

Looking for another flip.

This fight dominated by Toro.

And unless something bizarre happens,

he will head to the super heavyweight finals.

Well, if you leave it in the hands of the judges,

bizarre things have happened.

But even they couldn't screw this one up, Tim.

The crowd and Bill Gleyer looking for one final flip

because it has been flip after flip all fight long.

And this one is over.

That's it, Toro to the finals.

Take a look at this replay.

This flip gets grand amplitude points for Toro.

And then right here, it's like a low rider.

Up and down.

And then the pulverizer coming only down

on Little Blue Engine.

Here's the final score.

Toro 38, Little Blue Engine 7.

Here's the box side postmortem.

You didn't make it to the finals last season.

This year you have.

How does it feel?

It's awesome.

I got to tell you, we've been doing this for six years now.

And we've had bad luck with little wires and everything.

And it feels really good.

So we just take them one fight at a time and see what happens.

Good luck.

There's another super heavyweight semifinal on its way.

The former champ disector wants to perform his own elective surgery

on first timer New Cruelton.

More semifinal action to come.

You are watching a Comedy Central sports presentation of BattleBots

with Carmen Electra, Tim Green, Arge Barker, and me, Bill Dwyer.

For more information on BattleBots

and how you can enter a fighting robot in a BattleBots competition,

Hey, everybody.

Well, if Toro is the bull,

then Little Blue Engine certainly must be the China shot.

Little Blue Engine wasn't going to win that fight without some luck.

He should have talked to Carmen before getting in the box.

Thanks, guys.

See this?

It's my lucky rabbit's fur.

I don't go anywhere without it.

Well, except for, you know, PETA rallies.

Anyway, check out what some of these builders bring with them

for a little extra good luck.

I think our lucky charm is Peter the Bit Monkey.

The chef's hat.

We have our good luck snow doll.

I guess my mom's my lucky charm.

I got my lucky hat over here.

I brought the lucky fortune cookie.

Where there's ambition, there's success.

Yes, I do have some lucky charms.

They're back in the mobile home,

and we're having them for breakfast tomorrow morning.

I have some lucky underwear, actually.

Keep an eye on that guy.

Well, let's get back to the action

and see who's getting lucky.

Guys?

Who's going to have the luck and the skills?

Rookie Stealth Terminator or Veterans Center Punch?

Anne Beaver drives Center Punch.

Her dad, Tom, though, has a really cool day job,

so we paid a visit to his office.

My name is Tom Beaver.

My name's Anne Beaver.

My father is a medical examiner who dissects dead people.

Medical examiners are pretty rare to begin with.

I think there's only about 300 in the whole United States.

This is the unembalmed, well -developed, well-nourished body.

Lacerations to the head, lacerations in the extremities,

lacerations to the body.

Rigor mortises fully developed,

liver mortises present over the dorsal aspect of the body.

Yes, this looks like a train wreck.

Well, my day job is very stressful.

Building robots takes my mind completely away from that.

Control destruction of a mechanical body instead of a human body.

That's creepy, but cool.

You better toughen up, my friend.

It's time to face your heavyweight nightmares.

Roger Farr, Stealth Terminator, Los Angeles, California.

If she gets me through the side,

I'm sure she could just skewer me,

go into my batteries, go into my speed controller,

and take me out.

Anne Beaver, Center Punch, Lake Hallow in Florida.

Hit him and keep hitting him.

And never stop.

She is so made for the battle box.

Roger, Bill here.

How do you feel about beating up on a girl?

I'm going to have a lot of heckling at work if I don't,

so unfortunately I have to.

The box is locked.

The lights are on.

It's robot fighting time.

Look at the speed of Center Punch.

Center Punch comes out aggressively.

That is just a Ramex fight.

Doesn't move.

Oh, Center Punch strikes Stealth Terminator squarely in the armor.

Stealth Terminator trying to maneuver.

Stealth Terminator is tossed by the Kulesaws

and repelled by Center Punch at the same time.

You know, we've seen Center Punch take some nasty hits