BattleBots

In a season of surprises, none has been greater than Warhead.

He comes from a simple, quiet town.

They thought it was just a legend.

They believed all was well.

But the people of Bournemouth, England couldn't have been more wrong.

Starting right now, you must mind the path.

Do not stray from the group.

And if a road diverges in the wood, do not take the one less trap.

Because in the battle box, no one can hear you scream.

Warhead.

Tonight, the most celebrated rookie in bot history

continues his intercontinental path of destruction.

Can he upend the Matador?

Then Super Heavyweight Dissector.

He was champ three seasons ago.

It's been downhill since.

He'll try to right the ship against Dreadnought.

And Mauler 5150 takes Mechabor to spin class.

One of them will leave in the worst shape of their life.

Comedy Central Sports presents BattleBots.

This Comedy Central Sports presentation of

BattleBots is brought to you by Circuit City.

We know how you feel. That's why we're here.

Circuit City. We're with you.

Welcome everybody. Tim Green here.

And tonight I'm joined by Arge Barker, Tony Rock, and Carmen Electra.

And with me, as always, in the studio, still

on Cloud 9 after his Latin Grammy, Bill Dwyer.

Muchas gracias, Tim O'Toole.

I'll tell you, if I was any more excited about our first

fight, I'd have to snake even more of my nephew's riddling.

Warhead and the Matador.

Dan Lewis, Warhead.

Reason Bradley.

Alexander Rose.

The Matador.

And now, the box.

Let the flipping and the pounding begin.

And drivers, are you ready?

No, I am excited.

Warhead is ready.

Blue Dragon, are you ready?

Ready.

The Matador is ready.

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

The crowd favorite, Warhead, coming out with that deadly blade spinning.

He's going to keep those wings up to give Matador

less surface to get under, hopefully avoiding a flip.

Good thinking. Good thinking on Warhead's part.

And right now, the Matador looks tentative, doesn't he?

He sure does.

Oh, looks like Warhead lost a part there on the floor, Bill.

Or was it the Matador lost a part?

Now Warhead on the run, but Matador gets a shot from the Pulverizer.

Go at him, WH.

Warhead dumping him into the Pulverizer.

What is going on?

Where's the flip?

It's time for a flip. He's not on his back though, so that is a problem.

There is nothing doing right now with Matador.

Apparently lifeless in the corner.

And it looks like Warhead has done it again.

Man, that was quick.

And that was just a push.

That was so quick I didn't even see it.

I barely had time to think.

I can't wait for the replay.

They're about as long as the fight.

That's it. The Matador out in 1-13.

The Matador is designed to be able to right himself, but word

is this time the lifting arm got jammed and he was turtled.

Let's take a look at the Circuit City replay.

Here we see Warhead coming early with that spinning disc.

Loses a part of himself.

Didn't seem to matter though, because he goes back after the Matador.

And right here, Matador gets flipped on the

screws, unable to right himself. End of fight.

Now let's go down to the floor.

Do we know how much damage the Warhead can inflict, and

do we also know how much damage the Warhead can suffer?

It can unleash an untold amount of damage on the opponent, the arena, and itself.

And there's no guarantee what's going to happen.

Well, Ian, you might wear funny pants, but you build a hell of a robot.

Thanks very much. Yeah, I can't hide in these babies, can I?

Congratulations.

Well, this I can guarantee you. You don't want to miss what we've got coming up.

America's favorite spinner since Michelle Kwan.

Mauler 5150 goes up against a Giant Slayer in Mechamore.

But first, Super Heavyweight's Dissector and Dreadnought

in a veritable cornucopia of metal munching goodness.

And now, our own Bill Dwyer has headed downstairs.

He's going to make his debut in the Battle Box with Evil Cheese Wedge.

He takes on lightweight Snowflake and the darling of the box, JC Ross.

Bill, you ready?

I'm a nervous wreck. Watch, man. It's fighting time.

Like it or not, it's Evil Cheese Wedge fighting time.

Wow, this fight's going to be a doozy.

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Three, two, one. That is it. What a fight.

My eyes are still burning from the sight of all that carnage.

Let's take a look at the replays.

First, Evil Cheese Wedge gets in a bot-crushing slam on Snowflake.

Almost.

Then they show off their driving skills like two old

ladies fighting for a parking space at the outlet mall.

Now, let's get the decision.

Here by controversial decision, Evil Cheese Wedge.

Bill obviously surprised to be the winner in that one.

Time now to meet a winner of a different kind.

Last season, Comedy Central launched the It's Your Battle sweepstakes.

Over 6,000 of you entered to win a robot designed

by one of the legends of the sport, Donald Hudson.

The winner? Lance Lyle of Stanwood, Michigan.

Here's a little bit more about Lance.

The day Lance called me to tell me that he won

this contest, it was, I was just flipped out.

I'm like, I couldn't think of anyone more deserving of this honor.

Just to verify that we have the power.

We have power on.

He's got a good chance.

I think he's starting like a lot of the rookies with, you

know, basic working on the robot up until the very end

and only getting a short amount of time to drive it.

So, he's going to do very well.

Well, Eastie Beast didn't fare too well in this tournament.

In fact, he blew.

But, you know, if it's built by Donald Hudson,

it'll be around for many tournaments to come.

Ladies and gentlemen, Bill Dwyer.

He owns the battle box.

Thank you, Tim.

Man, it was even sweeter than I'd imagined.

Up next, another Donald Hudson bot to watch.

Only this time, Donald himself will be doing the driving honors.

Dissector takes on Dreadnaught.

Christian Carlberg, Culver City.

Dreadnaught.

Dreadnaught coming off an impressive, plow

-ripping victory over the formidable Gamma Psy.

Donald Hudson.

San Diego, California.

Dissector.

And Dissector wowed the crowd in his last

match, capsizing the Copter Bot final destiny.

Let's start it up.

Introducing, in the Red Square, he's mad as

hell and he's not going to take it anymore.

So, he's going to take it out on you.

Here is Dissector.

Builder Don Hudson says he's going to finish cows.

He just got sidetracked by Battle Box.

And in the Blue Square, while he's making his mark on history,

you'll be making tread marks in your underoos.

It's Dreadnaught.

These guys have never had to make any major repairs of Dreadnaught.

The box is locked and lights around.

It's robot fighting time.

We've got three minutes of hell to go through here.

Whoa!

He's already lost part of that plow.

Now, Don Hudson replaced the two battle mallets you normally see on Dissector

with the plow to kind of sacrifice that to Dreadnaught's spinning blade.

Let's see if that strategy works.

These are two big break bots and two break builders.

Back and forth battles so far.

Dissector sends Dreadnaught into the legsack.

Looks like he's not even using that sacrificial snow plow.

Oh, Dissector takes the big bot into the corner.

And Dreadnaught has taken a pounding from the Pulverizer.

And he's using the wedge, he's using the jaws right now so effectively.

Looks like Dreadnaught's spinners aren't able to get going.

Don Hudson using the jaws mostly as a wedge,

and he drives Dreadnaught into the spikes.

Now, a lot of times you see when a robot gets flipped over, it doesn't help them.

It gives them new life.

I know it sounds odd.

You're a little odd, but it's okay.

We love you anyway, Bill.

I'm a little odd.

There's Dissector with those jaws, and now he's got Dreadnaught where he wants him.

Takes him to the kill saws.

Dreadnaught with those blades back in action.

Oh no, he's got him with the jaws.

He's able to fit, it looks like right in

between those two spinning discs right now.

Oh, he's chewing them up.

That is perfect.

Oh, this is some excellent strategy from Don Hudson and Dissector.

Dreadnaught trying to recover.

Christian Karlberg trying to go to work with the wedge.

He does get it up and under of Dissector, and now he brings the blade,

but Dissector's just scoring two for every one of Dreadnaught's points.

Oh, he took him to the screws.

And that looked good.