Hardest Blows in BattleBots History? Hypershock vs. Gigabyte! | BattleBots

What I absolutely love about this fight is that it doesn't instantly snap in half or anything. There's just so much energy in this bot that it rips itself to shreds midair. It's beautiful :')

Insanely enough, Gigabyte's strategy of "get into the middle of the arena and get up to top speed" contributed to their undoing- the bot was spinning so fast when it got launched that the joints couldn't handle the pressure and it just took itself apart.

That last hit from hypershock is quite possibly the greatest hit I have ever seen on this show

Nice to see even the driver was shocked and horrified at what he did to the opponent. Good on him.

The fact that the official channels are uploading the current fights, warms my heart.

Definitely the biggest OMG moment in Battlebots history. Will Bales’ face says it all.

I love the look on the Hypershock team's faces. Even they are stunned by what they just did.

Ah it warms my heart to see Hypershock win a match. Gigabyte is excellent, but Hypershock with the rake is what got me into BattleBots.

Discovery themselves are finally uploading the fights? Amazing!!!!!!!

Whether or not this is "The greatest hit ever" in the series, I think we should take a moment and consider that this bot, which weighs in the hundreds of lbs, got straight up thrown several feet into the air, looks like possibly over the heads of the competitors, so 5 to 6 feet. That is a terrifying amount of force that went into that hit, even if it was GB's own internal forces that ultimately disassembled it.

Fight starts at 4:45 and the final blow at 6:04 . This is one-of-a kind fight I would repeatedly watch since Hypershock was “hyper” with the Mad Catter fight, Will’s face is just stunning and the commentators’ reactions were priceless, lol

“how tough is gigabyte” proceeds to get hit afterwards and completely discombobulates itself

Let's hope Gigabyte learns from this mistake, if there is an opening take it, Robot combat is a spectacle for the audience, make them enjoy the carnage. Of course if they didn't hesitate for 20 seconds we wouldn't have this awesome KO so...maybe stop learning?

Easily my favorite fight I've seen on the show. It was nuts watching this on tv for the first time last year.

Gigabyte is one of my favorite bots...it takes so many big hits and keeps spinning somehow. The result is always an entertaining fight, win or lose. As entertaining as that last hit was...Gigabyte really missed an opportunity to win this match. They should have gone for one of Hypershock's wheels when it was having drive issues. Could have further immobilized it and won the match.

Discovery has been doing such a good job striking down videos that I almost forgot this existed.

That is as clean a knock out as you're going to get in combat robotics.

After watching this as the end of the first episode for the Golden Bolt tournament last year, not remotely surprised this is the top of the list. Not just for the fight itself, but the build-up to the qualifier through the entire episode. For anyone new to the sport, Will Bales has been a crowd favorite for several years now is spite of Hypershock having serious reliability issues, because his attitude and dedication IMO speaks to why people love Battebots as a competition. Watching him and his team pull-off a slam-dunk like this was for me a major catharsis, and this episode alone was worth the $8 I spent to buy the tournament online.

It's nice to have official HD versions of these fights.

I think the Gigabyte driver knew something was wrong with his bot and might have had only one or two real hits left in it. so it was good strategy to just wait and see if Hypershock was going to get counted out because of drive issues. Of course when the last hit came it was over, but it might have happened the same way if Gigabyte went on the attack.