Honestly, this fight STILL gives me chills. I just watched this again, and the hairs raised on my arms. It's just so intense, and I remember seeing this on TV when it came out. I think it's fair to say this is one of the most iconic robotics matches in history.
I still have my biohazard keychain from so many years ago. It's flipper actually works when you pull the chain too Biohazard will always be my favorite battlebot😎
I still have my Overkill and Biohazard keychains. I always look at them every once in a while and ponder what it would be like to have the two of them in Battlebots today.
@@Snoozie280 Lucky is kind of a modern biohazard, and Overkills sword might be used on scorpios this season (Scorpios team got overkills sword from the builder and put it on the robot as a configuration)
That bracing rod is in my closet right now. I bought it off eBay from these guys shortly after the fight. If I ever go to one of these fights I'm bringing it with me as a walking stick.
@@mikehawk4517 If I recall correctly it was like 50 bucks, and came with the cracked connector (the part that failed) and a t-shirt signed by the team (which I've also still got!)
@@CodyRushDriving I was thinking the other day about any one part I would have liked from a bot, and this was the one. Didn't think anyone would actually have it, fantastic sentimental piece.
Carlo had such good sportsmanship. Didnt whine or complain about the call, just "yeah these guys did really well. I'll be back next year". Shit like that always gives me the warm fuzzies.
For that season, there was a 50% weight allowance bonus for StompBots; After Whyachi's success, they reduced the bonus to 20% and revised the rules to be much stricter, resulting in no other walking entries; I thought it was pretty unfortunate, since they were always a blast to watch. ;)
Watching this on TV as a kid, I swear it felt like I was watching the first Rocky movie. Two bots absolutely demolishing one another: one of them fast, durable and the reigning champ; the other packing the power of a Howitzer. At the end, it seemed like they were only able to move through sheer force of will.
***** probably made the lexan a lot thicker for the ABC one, considering they're now allowed to use fire as a weapon in it. LOL at nightmare exploding that little bot. Stuff like that is bound to happen though unfortunately. You build weapons to play with and theres going to be an incident eventually no matter how many precautions you take.
@d00bZubElEk no it doesnt the editing can be bad at places but come on modern season 4 was fantastic with lots of more destructive weapons and many new good drivers
What I love about this fight more then anything is that it showcases the two conflicting attitudes of Robot Combat perfectly. On one side Whyachi is crudely made, slow and has the grace of a hippo, but is incredibly destructive. Whilst on the other side Biohazard isn't very destructive, but is well made, beautiful to look at and well driven by Carlo Bertocchini. And as a result we were left with a great contest.
I saw Son of Whyachi recently - currently, the bot's stored in a crate along with its bigger brother at Fuzzy Mauldin's Lazy Toad Ranch. According to Carlo himself, Biohazard currently sits in a corner of his shop, still in pieces after the fights with Megabyte and Brutality at Robogames 2005. A sad fate for both of these machines - never to be used again, unfortunately.
Joe Shmo It is better to say that about the Swirlee match. Flew out of control right at the start, ripped off the screws, destroyed the chassis, crash landed at the pulverizer, splat, dead walker Whyachi.
My god can Biohazard take an unholy amount of punishment. Son of Whyachi hit Biohazard so hard, it broke one of its support rods and Biohazard just smiled. One of my favorite Battlebots fights ever.
+Michael Tom you should see the one between between last rites and electric boogaloo if you liked this one. a lot of power being thrown around, literally. and yeah, biohazard lost a front tooth, but it was definetly smiling as it watched whyachi get pulverized XD
He uses a series of cam shafts. He has three sets of long "feet" on each side of him. Only one foot touches the ground at the time on each side. The cams cause the foot thats touching the ground to move around, thus propelling the bot foward. As the foot leaves the ground, another foot touches the ground and repeats the process. This continues and allows him to move. It's called a shufflebot system. It is awesome!
I remember designing a bot similar to son of whyachi before i saw it, i was rather happy that my theory worked when i saw son of whyachi since i could never build a bot like it :( I think this is my favorite fight ever and the high point of the entire series...
Ouch, that was brutal. I'm surprised at the solidity of the engineering on Son of Whyachi, I thought when its own blades lifted it so it couldn't touch the floor it was finished, but then I think Biohazard shifted it back ont a stable footing and it managed to smash Biohazard even with it's weapon half busted. Amazing!
this shit is 100x better than UFC and pro wrestling, and you can't get too injured, you just rebuild that shit. why has there only been Robot Wars and Battle Bots? there needs to be a show like this on every channel
This was a great fight. I was all SOW at the beginning, but as I watched, it started to seem like bio would take it when he had SOW pinned.I was in the edge of my seat during this match back in 2001!
Biohazard "you'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands, and that's not gonna happen" Wyatchi "haha I'm not gonna pry it from your hands, I'll simply rip them off"
The funny thing is that at the time, nobody had seen anything as powerful as Son of Whyachi. It was thought that you needed the walker weight limit to carry a weapon like that. But in the next couple years, every spinner in the weight class found a way to be at least as powerful, if not moreso, yet stay under the wheeled weight limit.
When I first saw this match when I was in 3rd or 4th grade, I thought this was the greatest match I've ever seen. Now I watch it again, and I'm still right. But now I think they could've given the extra time to see a real fight to the finish.
From a functional aspect, you are definitely right. But I think that .. well, lets call it force of habit added character to Warhead. Razer was known as that one bot that moves in and goes for the kill, as if it had an own personality. In a similar manner, Warhead was known to rush in, trade a few hits and then spin and bolt around the arena like a Tazmanian Devil as if it needed to calm down.
Oh you're totally right, Razer is one of the few machines to match it's destructive capabilities to it's beauty, but more often then not machines seem to fit into one category or another. Warhead was a flawed machine IMO though, it's flywheel was so heavy that the rest of the machine was compromised as a result, one hit and it would fling itself across the arena because the machine couldn't handle the force of it's own weapon.
Those hammers are a fucking joke. Thing hits the bot like 100,000 times on a rod and doesn't even dent it in the slightest. I have never seen those hammers ever harm a bot yet. they are pointless. I will lay under one of those hammer and let it hit my stomach over and over.
they are primarily for points, not damage. if it goes to the judges decision, each of those hits WILL make an impact. yes, they do pretty much nothing damage wise (might as well be balloons), but they are to help with breaking a tie. just like all the other hazards
So where would you place Razer and Warhead? Just asking because I personally think they were elegant in their respective designs, if repetitive. And there is no doubt they were destructive.
@DarkAltiar True, Biohazard mantained control on most of the fight, just pointing out that staying put was Whyachi's strategy: the impact on the bot would be greater if walking
Could you refer me to a fight where SOW visibly breaks the rules? The videos I've watched have all either not shown the bots before the fight, or SOW isn't visible at the beginning (as you probably know, most BB videos have the camera looking at the center of the arena at the start, not aimed at the starting squares). Additionally, you haven't addressed the points made in my previous post.
No, my physics teacher is good friends with one of the owners and he said they got into a big argument over the rights and because each own an equal share, they had to stop it. which really sucks but they are coming back and on april 18 or 19 there is a competition in San Francisco where i live. Its kinda like the rebirth. So if you see it on TV, Vote for Mizbeyach to win. :) think thats how you spell it.
Also, as I quote from the official rules, Damage self-inflicted by a robot's own systems and not directly or indirectly caused by contact with the other robot or an active arena hazard will not be counted for scoring purposes.
@Kenjis9965 Strange isn't it? I had the same thing with a concept of biohazard with the spinning disc of nightmare and later there was a 259 in robot wars similar to that. Amazing fight was this. Great to see it after like 6 years or something =)
I wasn’t alive when this fight happened, but I’m not sure why people were mad SOW won. Sure Biohazard controlled SOW but Biohazard took more damage and got counted out twice. Not sure how you can win when you stop moving two times. And also biohazard was only moving in circles which is not enough movement. Not disrespecting either not but I agree with SOW winning.
Biohazard was fan favourite heavy weight next to vlad so people expected more from it other than "stop working" after fireing his lifting arm, over all i agree Sow won respectively.
They counted out Biohazard who could only go in donuts, yet Wyachi was stuck spinning in place (rather fast mind you) and was just sitting under the pulverizer (always a random damager since it seems to wreck some bots, sometimes never goes off, sometimes favors one bot over another)
Does anyone remember the name of the big red bot with the large spinning spiked silver/grey drum in the front? It and biohazard were the only ones I remember from when I was little.
They reduced the weight limit for season 4, and for season 5 no walkers or shufflers were allowed in Battlebots anymore, hence SoW became a wheeled robot.
It's funny how weird the rules used to be when it came to shufflers like a 50 weight bonus so you have a heavyweight going up against what is effectively a super heavyweight
you know that the world will be ok when mechanical robots made my engineers with sponsor labels from mathematical toolboxes (PTC) are on the television and getting good ratings. there is hope for the world.
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Honestly, this fight STILL gives me chills. I just watched this again, and the hairs raised on my arms. It's just so intense, and I remember seeing this on TV when it came out. I think it's fair to say this is one of the most iconic robotics matches in history.
Is this Crazy Ken? No way! Awesome!
@@Nanomaroni Hi! It's me!
Wow I was trying to find the origins of that team whyachi
I still have my biohazard keychain from so many years ago. It's flipper actually works when you pull the chain too Biohazard will always be my favorite battlebot😎
I still have my Overkill and Biohazard keychains. I always look at them every once in a while and ponder what it would be like to have the two of them in Battlebots today.
+Lani Steele I would absolutely love that. Can always hope for next season
@@Snoozie280 Lucky is kind of a modern biohazard, and Overkills sword might be used on scorpios this season
(Scorpios team got overkills sword from the builder and put it on the robot as a configuration)
That bracing rod is in my closet right now. I bought it off eBay from these guys shortly after the fight. If I ever go to one of these fights I'm bringing it with me as a walking stick.
Was it on auction? How much did you pay for it?
That’s pretty cool
@@mikehawk4517 If I recall correctly it was like 50 bucks, and came with the cracked connector (the part that failed) and a t-shirt signed by the team (which I've also still got!)
You're lucky
@@CodyRushDriving I was thinking the other day about any one part I would have liked from a bot, and this was the one. Didn't think anyone would actually have it, fantastic sentimental piece.
Carlo had such good sportsmanship. Didnt whine or complain about the call, just "yeah these guys did really well. I'll be back next year". Shit like that always gives me the warm fuzzies.
For that season, there was a 50% weight allowance bonus for StompBots; After Whyachi's success, they reduced the bonus to 20% and revised the rules to be much stricter, resulting in no other walking entries; I thought it was pretty unfortunate, since they were always a blast to watch. ;)
It’s changed now,
@@ridleymain9234that’s a 15 year old comment
Watching this on TV as a kid, I swear it felt like I was watching the first Rocky movie. Two bots absolutely demolishing one another: one of them fast, durable and the reigning champ; the other packing the power of a Howitzer. At the end, it seemed like they were only able to move through sheer force of will.
Why the heck did they ever take this off the air? This was a great fight, and a great TV show.
***** What fight was that?
***** probably made the lexan a lot thicker for the ABC one, considering they're now allowed to use fire as a weapon in it. LOL at nightmare exploding that little bot.
Stuff like that is bound to happen though unfortunately. You build weapons to play with and theres going to be an incident eventually no matter how many precautions you take.
@d00bZubElEk no it doesnt the editing can be bad at places but come on modern season 4 was fantastic with lots of more destructive weapons and many new good drivers
@d00bZubElEk actually, no. Newer Battlebots is way more destructive.
@d00bZubElEk a bot gets torn apart every other episode in the new season, sometimes multiple bots in an episode
What I love about this fight more then anything is that it showcases the two conflicting attitudes of Robot Combat perfectly. On one side Whyachi is crudely made, slow and has the grace of a hippo, but is incredibly destructive. Whilst on the other side Biohazard isn't very destructive, but is well made, beautiful to look at and well driven by Carlo Bertocchini. And as a result we were left with a great contest.
I saw Son of Whyachi recently - currently, the bot's stored in a crate along with its bigger brother at Fuzzy Mauldin's Lazy Toad Ranch. According to Carlo himself, Biohazard currently sits in a corner of his shop, still in pieces after the fights with Megabyte and Brutality at Robogames 2005. A sad fate for both of these machines - never to be used again, unfortunately.
whyachi willllll returnnnnnnn
+Circe Savan Sham about Biohazard. Even if it's retired I would have still fixed him up.
SoW is back for Season 2 on ABC! It was my favorite boy, I'm excited to see it back. Apparently it spins at 200-250mph now.
www.battlebots.com/robot/sow/
Bryan S Also from the Battlebots facebook page, if a Season 3 occurs. Carlo and Biohazard may return.
Biohazard has been avenged! Poison Arrow sent SoW flying across the box! splat! dead Whyachi!
Joe Shmo It is better to say that about the Swirlee match. Flew out of control right at the start, ripped off the screws, destroyed the chassis, crash landed at the pulverizer, splat, dead walker Whyachi.
I remember watching fight with such excitement as a kid.
I will forever love Battlebots =D
My god can Biohazard take an unholy amount of punishment. Son of Whyachi hit Biohazard so hard, it broke one of its support rods and Biohazard just smiled.
One of my favorite Battlebots fights ever.
+Michael Tom you should see the one between between last rites and electric boogaloo if you liked this one. a lot of power being thrown around, literally.
and yeah, biohazard lost a front tooth, but it was definetly smiling as it watched whyachi get pulverized XD
Michael Tom i
Michael Tom watch Biohazard vs Megabyte, the fight that retired Biohazard, proves how powerful the spinners are.
He uses a series of cam shafts. He has three sets of long "feet" on each side of him. Only one foot touches the ground at the time on each side. The cams cause the foot thats touching the ground to move around, thus propelling the bot foward. As the foot leaves the ground, another foot touches the ground and repeats the process. This continues and allows him to move. It's called a shufflebot system. It is awesome!
Biohazard My favorite battlebot, i remember someone gave me a toy replica biohazard, i keep it for a while till my uncle add it to his collection.
I remember designing a bot similar to son of whyachi before i saw it, i was rather happy that my theory worked when i saw son of whyachi since i could never build a bot like it :(
I think this is my favorite fight ever and the high point of the entire series...
Ouch, that was brutal. I'm surprised at the solidity of the engineering on Son of Whyachi, I thought when its own blades lifted it so it couldn't touch the floor it was finished, but then I think Biohazard shifted it back ont a stable footing and it managed to smash Biohazard even with it's weapon half busted. Amazing!
God I remember watching this as a kid, Son of Whyachi was my favourite and I was so thrilled that he won.
That was a great fight. Good show, guys!
this shit is 100x better than UFC and pro wrestling, and you can't get too injured, you just rebuild that shit. why has there only been Robot Wars and Battle Bots? there needs to be a show like this on every channel
Cuando era niño no me perdia este programa ahora es extraño volver a ver esta pelea epica
They stopped airing these in my country. Thought they had finished for good. Thank you Husky!
This was a great fight. I was all SOW at the beginning, but as I watched, it started to seem like bio would take it when he had SOW pinned.I was in the edge of my seat during this match back in 2001!
Voting for son of whyachi this year.
He was a monster against those bugs.
They were bugs, bro.
rip
lol
Yeah, this didn't happen...
Poison arrow man.
I'm glad to see SOW get wrecked. I hate that bot. BIOHAZARD FOR LIFE SON!
I think this is one of the most exciting fights in battlebots.I watched it for many times and i still like to watch it.
"Eaassyy fella."
That made me lol. Like he was taming a horse. X)
Biohazard "you'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands, and that's not gonna happen"
Wyatchi "haha I'm not gonna pry it from your hands, I'll simply rip them off"
Blippy after the judges dont notice you moving in the last 3 seconds.
Biohazard: you mean you will pay the judges to take it from me!
theez were my two favorites, i remember watching this at age 7, they need 2 bring this show back!
They did but most of the old robots are no more
@Eli Snyder yh it retired shortly but comes back for a few matches
Back then it was only S.O.W and biohazard
Isaiah muniz dont forget vlad the impaler
biohazad is I knockoff oc lucky
How? Lucky came AFTER BioHazard.
Isaiah muniz ij
Isaiah Strong Lucky is like Ziggy 2. Part Toro, part Biohazard
biohazard HAD THIS. oh man idk what went wrong. thats heart breaking when you get one of the greatest battlebots on the ropes just to suddenly working
The funny thing is that at the time, nobody had seen anything as powerful as Son of Whyachi. It was thought that you needed the walker weight limit to carry a weapon like that. But in the next couple years, every spinner in the weight class found a way to be at least as powerful, if not moreso, yet stay under the wheeled weight limit.
When I first saw this match when I was in 3rd or 4th grade, I thought this was the greatest match I've ever seen. Now I watch it again, and I'm still right. But now I think they could've given the extra time to see a real fight to the finish.
From a functional aspect, you are definitely right. But I think that .. well, lets call it force of habit added character to Warhead.
Razer was known as that one bot that moves in and goes for the kill, as if it had an own personality.
In a similar manner, Warhead was known to rush in, trade a few hits and then spin and bolt around the arena like a Tazmanian Devil as if it needed to calm down.
my my my, love this show dude, and that fight was amazing!
Just realized guys at 5:07 are from mighty med holy crap
No, it fought against a robot called "Shaka". It lasted the whole 3 minutes. Also, Crab Meat was KOed, it said it in Whyachi's fight with Nightmare.
Oh you're totally right, Razer is one of the few machines to match it's destructive capabilities to it's beauty, but more often then not machines seem to fit into one category or another. Warhead was a flawed machine IMO though, it's flywheel was so heavy that the rest of the machine was compromised as a result, one hit and it would fling itself across the arena because the machine couldn't handle the force of it's own weapon.
Those hammers are a fucking joke. Thing hits the bot like 100,000 times on a rod and doesn't even dent it in the slightest. I have never seen those hammers ever harm a bot yet. they are pointless. I will lay under one of those hammer and let it hit my stomach over and over.
they are primarily for points, not damage. if it goes to the judges decision, each of those hits WILL make an impact. yes, they do pretty much nothing damage wise (might as well be balloons), but they are to help with breaking a tie. just like all the other hazards
Beta destroyed Overhaul with its hammer.
warrior clan was taken out with one. It bent the flipper
They move at 70+ mph for that season (100 extra pounds because SOW was called a walker) and take a look at it against the feared Nightmare!
So where would you place Razer and Warhead?
Just asking because I personally think they were elegant in their respective designs, if repetitive.
And there is no doubt they were destructive.
I think a walker still could have used the 20% advantage to win. It's just very difficult to engineer a good walker, so few teams ever tried.
Best bot fight evvvveeerrrr! I could watch this all day!
This was definitely a badass battle!
@DarkAltiar True, Biohazard mantained control on most of the fight, just pointing out that staying put was Whyachi's strategy: the impact on the bot would be greater if walking
Me too, watching razor's parts get thrown around the battlebox would be pretty entertaining.
I remember seeing this on tv, it was legendary!
@mikaNL074 you replied to a comment i made 12 years ago, sick!
This is better than any fight in any action movie or cartoon or sporting event, seriously.
Those hits looked so great!!
Could you refer me to a fight where SOW visibly breaks the rules? The videos I've watched have all either not shown the bots before the fight, or SOW isn't visible at the beginning (as you probably know, most BB videos have the camera looking at the center of the arena at the start, not aimed at the starting squares). Additionally, you haven't addressed the points made in my previous post.
Compass6633 it's a conspiracy dun dun dun
what was the maximum weight allowed for the heavyweights?
Greatest fight of the whole series.
Biohazard was always my favorite.
do they still have this show running
since i have not seen battle bots before how does son of whyachi's steering and movement work? it seems very strange
They spent tens of thousands of dollars on Son of Whyachi, it is an incredible machine and my favorite Battlebot of all time.
No, my physics teacher is good friends with one of the owners and he said they got into a big argument over the rights and because each own an equal share, they had to stop it. which really sucks but they are coming back and on april 18 or 19 there is a competition in San Francisco where i live. Its kinda like the rebirth. So if you see it on TV, Vote for Mizbeyach to win. :) think thats how you spell it.
possibly the best fight of battle bots
Whats on ESPN in april??
There were like...10 seconds left in the fight, it would have gone to a Judges' Decision anyway. Hail Whyachi! What an awesome bot.
Also, as I quote from the official rules,
Damage self-inflicted by a robot's own systems and not directly or indirectly caused by
contact with the other robot or an active arena hazard will not be counted for scoring
purposes.
I miss this show!!!!
Ahh the days of my childhood spent watching this.....
Is that the old guy on battle bots in the whyachi shirt???
Very very very good!
This is a very unusual fight!
I like the they introduce robots especially biohazard
How do you know there won't be another? Do you have any proof? If so, please, share.
Son of Whyachi should have been counted out long before Bio....it was just spinning in one spot and couldn't do shit.
No,it was stuck not dead
Te amo BattleBots
Best battle of Battle Bots.
NEW BATTLEBOTS SEASON IN APRIL!
That was an awesome fight!
this marked a turning point in robot combat, where spinners got more powerful and started doing much better
Both the bots were unable to compete in the rumble after the championship ended
FLOVED me some Son of Whyachi, that was my favorite bot. They may not have been "robot" per se, but I loved Battlebots.
Ah, Husky sent me. I remember seeing this way back when, thanks for the reminder of good television! :D
P.S. They need to start this series up again.
Its back
Happy to comment after 5 years
The thing with the full-body spinners is balance. They are one chunk away from pulling a "mauler" and completely self-destructing.
@Kenjis9965 Strange isn't it? I had the same thing with a concept of biohazard with the spinning disc of nightmare and later there was a 259 in robot wars similar to that. Amazing fight was this. Great to see it after like 6 years or something =)
loved this show when it came out
I wasn’t alive when this fight happened, but I’m not sure why people were mad SOW won. Sure Biohazard controlled SOW but Biohazard took more damage and got counted out twice. Not sure how you can win when you stop moving two times. And also biohazard was only moving in circles which is not enough movement. Not disrespecting either not but I agree with SOW winning.
Biohazard was fan favourite heavy weight next to vlad so people expected more from it other than "stop working" after fireing his lifting arm, over all i agree Sow won respectively.
alguien sabe si este programa lo siguen pasando por tv?
It's funny how intense this was back in the day. Nowadays it's tame as hell.
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biohazard was always my favorite heavyweight growing up, so i couldn't help but have a bit of bias watching this...nice battle
They counted out Biohazard who could only go in donuts, yet Wyachi was stuck spinning in place (rather fast mind you) and was just sitting under the pulverizer (always a random damager since it seems to wreck some bots, sometimes never goes off, sometimes favors one bot over another)
Whyachi should of connected those three hammer rods with CHAINS, instead of red bars.
That would not only make it worse, but also make it break
Best battlebots fight EVER! :D
Does anyone remember the name of the big red bot with the large spinning spiked silver/grey drum in the front? It and biohazard were the only ones I remember from when I was little.
They reduced the weight limit for season 4, and for season 5 no walkers or shufflers were allowed in Battlebots anymore, hence SoW became a wheeled robot.
It's funny how weird the rules used to be when it came to shufflers like a 50 weight bonus so you have a heavyweight going up against what is effectively a super heavyweight
i wish I could find this show online. Just the new show. Also wish there was heavyweight today. Obviously expensive but imagine
they still air this show?
Yes, new season June 7th on Discovery Channel
That last frame looks like it's leftover data from a Halo recording.
Wait the Sklar Brothers!? Did Battlebots always have comedians doing backstage stuff?
Damn, that was a great fight.
Biohazard is my favorite robot ever, but congrats to Son of Whyachi.
There is a still of a Halo 3 spartan riding a mongoose at the very end of this video.
You could tell biohazard was posting, he was buying time. He was using up time, but it bit him in the ass in the end.
I miss this show so much....
god i love this show so much
I bought that broken bracing arm off of ebay! :D Got a t-shirt for team Whyachi with it. :D I love having this piece of robotic combat history.
Come back Battlebots!
you know that the world will be ok when mechanical robots made my engineers with sponsor labels from mathematical toolboxes (PTC) are on the television and getting good ratings.
there is hope for the world.
You really need to watch the newest season of modern battlebots the bots weigh up to like 220 pounds and are getting thrown 7 to 8 feet in the air
@@aiminathshiuna8614 250 lbs actually