Battlebots 1.0 Episode 5 | Beyond The Battlebox
Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Beyond The Battlebox, the blog where you ask "why?" and I respond with "yes." A happy belated Thanksgiving to the Americans reading the blog, hopefully you enjoyed the day eating too much and falling asleep. Festivities aside, it's time to go back in time with another episode Battlebots 1.0! Today's episode aired on September 27th, 2000 and features two fights, one in the Heavyweight and Super Heavyweight divisions and our first Rumble in the Lightweight division, a ten-machine clusterfuck that will be impossible to commentate. I suppose we'll figure it out when we get there so let's do it to it! AN ALL OUT ALUMINUM ORGY Is it the same photo? Or am I just screenshotting the exact same thing every time? The answer is yes. Five seconds into the episode and Salisbury Steak refers to DoAll vs SLAM as a "Heavyweight Throwdown." DoAll vs SLAM is a Super Heavyweight fight. Sean continues his mom...