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Fight-Bot
From The Great Outdoor Fight
The 1986 Champion was the result of a controversial bending of the rules to allow robots into the Great Outdoor Fight for the first time. The move was contested amongst the Fight's ruling body, but in the end a single mechanism was allowed to compete as a test case.
Fight-Bot was born at the California Institute of Technology. His legs were equipped with roller skates, and attached to his head was a rotating metal pole tipped with a spiked iron ball that spun around the cylindrical main body at high speeds.
During the first two days of the fight, Fight-Bot proved to be a dangerous but not a dominant force on the field. His main advantage was his metal exterior, which usually did more damage to his attackers when anyone tried to hit him. An early victim of Fight-Bot was Lester Getts "Physical", whose distinctive "headband strangle" maneuver was completely ineffectual against a foe with a steel larynx.
His spinning mace-pole proved to be unwieldy and poorly aimed at first. However, everything changed on the third day of fighting, when a well-placed blow from Terry "Sugar" Suguri caused Fight-Bot to malfunction. Fight-Bot became stuck in a feedback loop and for the rest of the fight could only spin endlessly in a circle. Unexpectedly, this turned into a great advantage because he was impossible to approach without succumbing to the great rotating arm.
An increasingly nervous succession of would-be champions all engaged Fight-Bot and lost on the third day, realizing that they would have to somehow overpower the thing to become the last man standing. In the end, none was up to the task and several were killed, including returning 1985 Champion Pablo Jess Schreckengost. Despite his unorthodox path to the championship, Fight-Bot was declared the winner.
Successful though he was as a fighter, as a test case Fight-Bot provided ample supporting evidence for the anti-robot faction to push through a moratorium on inorganic fighters. The fact that Fight-Bot was able to win accidentally made the rueful pro-droid judges concede that the bot's participation went counter to the Great Outdoor Fight's raison d'etre of promoting honorable, gentlemantly combat, and Fight-Bot went down in history as the first and last robotic champion.
The still-spinning Fight-Bot currently resides in the permanent collection of the Great Outdoor Fight Museum in downtown Bakersfield, CA.
[edit] Record
- 1986 - Champion, Last "Man" Standing.
[edit] The Crobot Controversy
There have been reports in conspiracy circles that Fight-bot was in fact called Crobot. The conspiracy theorists say that it was in fact a sentient artificial lifeform that had the ability to read [http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get
