Robot Wars - Series 7 Top 15 Battles (2004)

With the Series 7 uploads complete, I thought I'd compile a list of some of the best battles from the final series of the show's original run. Note, that, of course, some of the list differs from my Top 25 for reasons such as changes in opinion since, as well as me putting extra emphasis on a drawn out battle as apposed to explosive moments, so the likes of Iron-Awe 2.1 vs Bigger Brother are naturally that bit lower than in the original Top 25 list.
Anyhow, with Series 4's uploads being completed over the weekend, feel free to suggest battles in the comments below that you'd like to be included in the Series 4 version of this list.

[@kekkley]

Robot wars is more for entertainment while battlebots is treated like a boxing match, they sorta compliment eachother

[@extropian506]

In enjoyed them both as a child, but looking back as an adult Robot Wars is way more entertaining.

[@Tmccreight25Gaming]

Robot Wars is more like Professional Wrestling than Boxing, especially when you consider the format of the Extreme series

[@dasher29]

Robot wars is wwe and battle bots is ufc

[@theaces3697]

@@dasher29 nah Battlebots is taken way too seriously its almost cringe, like the teams are so far up their own arses, they cry and get upset when being damaged or complain that the other team damaged them when they were being counted, in Robot wars most of the time the teams are still smiling and laughing when getting destroyed because its just a hobby/fun type thing for them

[@boomerkid3261]

@@theaces3697 You do know some of the best robotic engineers in the world are on battlebots, right? Also if you spent 20K and multiple sleepless nights working on a robot just to lose you would be upset too.

[@joemort349]

That rising guitar note during 3 2 1 activate always gives me chills🔥if I was going into a battle of some kind that's the sound I'd want during the countdown lol

[@tobzdaman619]

i miss the background music during fights, so awesome

[@saltedfries2763]

tobz619 I

[@oscarscadds36]

The producers were literally pissing all over Storm 2 the entire series and it still gained 2nd place. Should’ve won. The team was robbed.

[@marcusking8507]

11:11 X-Terminator and Tsunami... the best tag team that never existed.

[@forzatoby]

Marcus King on the 11th battle with the 11th seed. All the 11's

[@richard29415]

Yeah they were an awesome dynamic duo!

[@zekelockman1477]

Nobody: Series 7: *flip flip flip flip flip*

[@Freddie1980]

Robots were using the same motors in 100kg robots as they were back when the weight limit was capped at 84kg, as result armour got better and bots were more resilient to destructive weapons like spinning discs and flywheels. This meant more and more bots had to resort to things like flippers as there primary weapon.

[@cqnzr-clipsgameplay5706]

The Storm vs Tornado fight was sick. xD

[@el_juan1942]

Tornado vs Copy-Tornado

[@owenmckenzie962]

El_Juan robot the Bruce copy vs robot the Bruce copy

[@metalbat8414]

@@el_juan1942 Vs better Tornado*

[@teknacious]

Amazing commentator lol

[@nathanielmemes7328]

Yeah his name is Johnathon pierce

[@PelemusMcSoy]

One of the best parts of the franchise, and I'm glad he came back to the reboot.

[@njgw1465]

With Series 4's uploads being completed over the weekend, feel free to suggest battles that you'd like to be included in the Series 4 version of this list.

[@lilsunny7399]

hypnodisc vs splinter, stinger vs chaos 2, pussycat vs chaos 2, firestorm vs bolt from the blue.

[@charlie.hubbard5463]

Pussycat v. Chaos 2 Stinger v. Chaos 2 Panic Attack v. SMIDSY (I know it's not in high quality but) X-Terminator v. Behemoth Splinter v. Eric Panic Attack v. SMIDSY Splinter v. Hypno-Disc Dominator v. 101 Hypno Disc v. Wild Thing X-Terminator v. Wild Thing

[@chandulurefan1]

Chaos 2 v. Pussycat Stinger v. Chaos 2 Behemoth v. Arnold A Terminegger v. Rambot Razer v. Milly-Ann Bug Pussycat v. Robochicken Razer v. Onslaught Hypno-Disc v. Splinter Hypno-Disc v. Predator v. Raizer Blade Gemini v. The Creature

[@livinglifeform7974]

Pussycat vs robochicken Mortis vs Steg 2 Thermidor vs pussycat Pussycat vs dominator Firestorm vs dominator

[@gregoryatkin1509]

Can we include the Specials? I think the first round of the Northern Annihilator counts. I'd love to see you include Pussycat/Razer just to make the fanboys whinge. Pretty much anything from Semi Final 1 (but Pussycat/Thermidor would be my call out of the lot of it). X-Terminator/Arnold Arnold (if you can get it). Spikasaurus/Stinger/Bulldog Breed. Wild Thing/X-Terminator. Wild Thing/Hypno-Disc. Tornado/Gemini. But honestly it's more interesting to see your personal take. A man can never have too many lists!

[@digitaldeathsquid3448]

Oh, how that Grand Final was mired in controversy. Not as much as the Season 6 Grand Final, but still a fair amount. Numerous accusations of judges results being fixed by the controller of Channel 5 are not something to be taken lightly

[@233Deadman]

Well just watch the Storm 2 vs Tornado fight, despite the cut you can bloody see the pit got raised to let Tornado free.

[@SamueIlI]

The thumbnail reminded me of the Simpsons episode when homer goes on battlebots🤣😂🤣

[@StFidjnr]

@ 37:38 sir Killalot's weakness exposed

[@digitaldeathsquid3448]

Say what you will about the Grand Final fight (and very entertaining it was), but I think Storm 2 should've taken that decision. I think they were more consistently aggressive than Typhoon and managed to get more lifts in from the looks of things compared to how many times Typhoon managed to actually hit Storm 2 with their full-body spinner. The damage that appeared at the end, given that Typhoon wasn't spinning when that panel came off of Storm 2, I think was self-inflicted rather than caused by Typhoon

[@jdb2002]

It's worse than that. Tornado did not "narrowly miss the pit" in reality. Tornado actually went down into the pit, but they raised it back up. The producers were biased against Storm 2, since it was designed to be a bot that was durable and could push, but the producers didn't think that was entertaining. The ineffective flipper was added in due to a new rule that you had to have some kind of active weapon.

[@digitaldeathsquid3448]

@@jdb2002 That's a different fight, but yeah.

[@robotwars666]

I disagree damage is always the most imoprtmenr factor And i think the panel at the front got loose because of the hits from typhoon 2 there is no other moment were they took damage

[@TheTomBobson]

Are you recording the Series 2 challenge re runs? One day we may get all series in great quality!

[@Brandon-sd7lq]

Good collection brings back memories

[@joeandrews7329]

Past time memories there. From Joe. X

[@remoobko8440]

Absolutely loved what Matilda did to Ceros. one of the coolest things ever in RW history. And the St Agro shirts too

[@joeandrews7329]

Matilda had the flywheel which was a whip of a weapon!. From Joe. X

[@Adamhulbert95]

Number 1 was great, but Bulldog Breed vs TAN was the best for me

[@HarryRickard]

Watching Typhoon 2 VS. Storm 2 back, I still have NO CLUE how on earth Typhoon 2 won that. Such manufactured, Mentorn bullshit. Storm 2 were on top of that fight the whole time. They were unstoppable and deserved that win so much.

[@NoobsailerRBH]

It was all of that executive meddling - the channel 5 producers really didn't want Storm II to win, which is why all of those stupid moments happened. Personally, as a Firestorm fan, I'm kinda salty about Storm II opting to shove them down the pit as soon as they could, particularly because they did so without using their lifting arm, but Storm II were better in every category against Typhoon 2 IMO.

[@GeneralCodeBlue]

NoobsailerRBH damage? Which has been established as the most important?

[@NoobsailerRBH]

Internal damage, not just external damage - and Typhoon 2 were not too happy at the end, in regards to the internals; they were not spinning up at all, and Storm II sustained that damage later than Typhoon 2 did. Still the damage category, admittedly, could go either way.

[@agustinval1508]

It because the producers absolutley hated storm 2. They created the active weapon rule just so storm 2 couldnt compete. And the producers told the judges to make storm 2 lose

[@GeneralCodeBlue]

mr plutonium the producers never told the judge's to make storm2 lose that's just rubbish the captain spread because he was salty.

[@eleanormaloney2888]

Is it just me, or are these battles way more exciting than the ones on the new series?

[@lmurphy0000]

I liked how in the classic shows there was a lot more fun as it was merely a game show. With the new series it was a lot more serious as it was a competitive sport.

[@PelemusMcSoy]

The new arena does look a lot more sterile (maybe even a little smaller), and the bright lights change the mood a bit. Plus the lack of Refbot and post defeat beatdowns from the Housebots (and some of their redesigns) take away from the sheer excitement of destruction.

[@Jb33124]

Tornado Vs Storm 2. What a fight. I wonder how different it would be if Tornado didn't get flipped?

[@cyochum219]

ripper is huge

[@kenbuechler6681]

I know this is four years old but if you ever do this again could you please include any judges decisions? I hate the close calls and not knowing who actually won. Don't need the whole decision part of the video just the part where the announcer says it. Or could someone just tell me if robochicken won against tough as nails? And storm 2 and typhoon 2? The more I weatch the more I need to know. :)

[@njgw1465]

Tough as Nails edged the win, as did Typhoon 2 on damage!

[@gregoryatkin1509]

I do love watching your lists, even if it's only for the Extended S5 Grand Final theme over the introductions. probably shouldn't have been surprised by Number 1, but I have to say, not sure I agree with all of them. That is of course the joy of everyone's opinions, but I would have put TAN/Bulldog Breed much, much higher up. Maybe next to TAN/Robochicken for the full effect of the 'revenge' for its' Tag Team partner. Only one I vehemently disagreed with was putting M2/Tiberius so high. It was great for the latter half, but the first part was like watching the very worst of all of Razer's fights condensed into one. I think my favourite out of these was M2/Atomic personally, but all were pretty good fights. Whatever issues were behind the scenes during S7, it had some cracking fights.

[@davidwilding]

Every time I watch the Storm 2 Typhoon 2 final I wonder WHY was Storm 2 robbed of victory like that?

[@metalbat8414]

Because the producers hated them, simple as that

[@Leatherface123.]

Because typhoon got the judges decision

[@richard29415]

Well the judges said that damage carries more weight, Typhoon 2 did after all smash a piece of the front of Storm II. But Storm II did do VERY well despite that.

[@zagger999]

Always felt this result was odd. When Storm 2 won every category except damage and lost felt damning (it felt like the judges determined another category went to Typhoon yet it was never in control, aggression was won by Storm which leaves style). Then when Robot Wars returned for a reboot, they ended up scoring Aggression as more important and dropped style. Think they didn't want another repeat of this scenario.

[@RiskyNights]

What are the little black dots moving around?

[@connahbourton5097]

Watching that thinking Tiberius 3 looked just as good as razor.. until it got flipped and couldn’t self right😂

[@banjiu10]

Can' argue with No.1. It is one of the most dramatic fights in RW.

[@FeArLemonz0D220]

This fight is why Xterminator was one of my favourite bots in Robot Wars

[@Swiftalarm_]

42:15 THERE IS A BUG!!!

[@janchowaniec2675]

Holy cow that giant robot at the first fight.

[@nathanschubert3048]

weak plastic armor.

[@janchowaniec2675]

I meant the Colossus, in the corner is a very elaborate design

[@VestedUTuber]

That's just Mr. Psycho.

[@halkitchen1838]

Surprised not to see Panic Attack vs. Tough as Nails included, although this compilation has reminded me what an entertaining robot Tough as Nails were, you could make an argument for any of their battles being among the best. Glad you didn’t just go for the battles where the most damage was done and more for the real tests of driver skill, which are always the more entertaining battles for me. M2 vs Tiberius might be my favourite, such an exciting comeback and you can see every move M2 was making to turn the tables on their opponent.

[@joeandrews7329]

Tough as nails got to the semi finals in series 7 of robot wars. From Joe. X

[@TheSassJacket]

24:40 *Taunt to get bodied*

[@Freddie1980]

15:30 Hydra = discount Mortis 19:14 There's some bullshit right there, the only time I've seen the Pit go back up in a live match!

[@szoszaty]

Would you share the music? I would headbang on it in my room :D

[@njgw1465]

Robot Wars - Grand Final theme/Final Fight.

[@Limelick]

What is song in the intro

[@joshkenovan7876]

I refuse to accept that Storm 2 Vs Steel Avenger isn't on here

[@legodude494]

Supernova may not have won the series, but they will forever be able to hold the title of being the robot to do probably the most damage to Sir Killalot. Cutting off a track like that isn't something I think I've seen happen to Killalot before, though he has been set on fire a few times, but that's not really from a competitor's direct attack.

[@traida111]

why not show the decisons?

[@njgw1465]

Because this video is designed for the battles only - adding the decisions breaks the flow. However, I can tell you that from the battles involving Judges' decision, the robots that won/progressed, in order, were: Roobarb, Pussycat, Bulldog Breed, Gravity, Thor, Storm 2, Tough as Nails and Typhoon 2.

[@traida111]

ok thanks, oh well I thought that where it wasnt obvious, you could have the commentator say a decision. but if it doesnt feel good in the editing process then I understand ;)

[@blairscott6770]

Number 9 after they smashed the wall and flipped old mate over it smashed the camera lens

[@TheSpearkan]

27:35 Except of course for Nuts

[@233Deadman]

and Diotor, Napalm, Sir Chromalot and Plunderbird.

[@ReDelta101]

Well this aged nicely

[@Roscoso]

Did anyone see around that moment Tornado was put on the lowering pit that it went back upwards so Tornado could drive away. Producer meddling again.

[@huaninhvan8926]

Ross Heuchan a A a a a A

[@grumpydwarf167]

I think I prefer the fights without commentary.....

[@jdixon390]

XTerminator vs Bulldog Breed isn't here. Why?

[@aaronstewart4459]

velociripper looks like feraligator

[@smallwaves]

38:15 Refbot narrowly avoids death

[@arwilson51]

As an American... This is better than battlebots

[@emanueleutzeri9118]

austin wilson Just Thanks 😭

[@kurafutomine9874]

Thank you

[@robinshetty8862]

one of the best 1

[@thanhsnapping123]

good

[@AlolaMasked_BettyRubbleFan]

11:24 Dont lose your head, buddy

[@connorchilvers5726]

àaaàaaaaaàæ the UK robot wars I love it

[@user-bh5tr3of4d]

The Germans have done a powerful machine as usual , but shamefully lost overestimating their capabilities. German militarism in action.

[@joeandrews7329]

Tsunami was second in the German robot wars in Britain. From Joe. X

[@cheapy2006]

RW vs BB. No contest!!

[@shannonalaminski2619]

Can a robot be said to be in the pit when most of the robot is in pieces all over the arena?😆😆😆

[@stuartgibson6357]

Back when Robot Wars was still classic TV, with or without controversies.

[@joeandrews7329]

American robots fought in Britain between 2001-2002. From Joe. X

[@TaleOfTheToaster]

where is mute vs judge shred 3

[@TaleOfTheToaster]

oh more importantly you really did miss off Kat 3 vs Panic Attack vs Bigger Brother vs Firestorm V vs Cassius Chrome vs Shunt vs Refbot

[@BurntFaceMan]

ya didnt show who WON the bloody fights for half of them.

[@njgw1465]

This video is designed to show the best battles and the content of those battles - nothing past that. But since you seem to be unable to check who won the fights for yourself, here you go: Roobarb and Pussycat progressed through the second fight, Bulldog Breed beat Tough as Nails, Gravity and Thor went through in battle nine, Storm 2 beat Tornado, Tough as Nails got the decision against Robochicken, Typhoon 2 beat Storm 2.

[@ThePratech]

Way too many robots for one game. It's a cluster f***. Too much happening

[@dantespot5072]

como ustedes arman esas máquinas me pueden dar su instrucción para armar uno de los robots me encanta sus vídeos me e suscrito a sus vídeos

[@devonstewart3020]

1:27 roach bottom middle lol

[@legodemonrockstar]

9:57 Jesus,Matilda was that really necessary ?

[@forzatoby]

Marty SpaceCowboy yes. Yes it was.

[@wumbosaurus9121]

NO MERCY FOR THE WEAK

[@PelemusMcSoy]

I mean, her weakness _is_ a lack of self control.

[@billurizki9783]

keren

[@teiganteiggystkinsterry1141]

I 💖 Jayne Middlemiss reaction 😯 on her face she is gasping for a second right about now she is doing a great job as my pit reporter 😉😉I 💖 her and I miss 😯 her so much 😐😐

[@user-iv1pi9xv3z]

Только один момент прикольный 22:32

[@Marcelo8243]

Twisted Metal

[@Agora2021]

I wish the robots were more deadly.

[@JudgmentSigma]

X-Terminator certainly is! The rest are OR a flipper/lifter OR a fast invertable box! Kinda boring if you think about it!

[@233Deadman]

Typhoon was pretty deadly, Storm 2 was just very tough and well armoured, with the angled armour also helping deflect the hits.

[@ZwoolkTheNarwhale]

Agora2021 Thor has a pretty powerful hammer

[@rogodarius9166]

Watch Battlebots instead - the battles are far more interesting - they've got drones, rockets and no "pit" to ruin the action ;D

[@233Deadman]

yes, and Battlebots managed to get 4 fights into a 1 hour timeslot. Sometimes those fights were less than a minute long. At least Robot Wars can be counted on toi give you what you're there for: robots fighting.

[@brandonlee1149]

I actually think that if any of these bots fought against Tombstone from BattleBots, they would all get rekt. And if you don't know what BattleBots is or Tombstone, look it up, then you'll be on my side.

[@connorclark3661]

"Let's put machines from 2003 against a machine that arrived twelve years later!" You're a gifted child aren't you? Gifted of the glue swallowing kind, not the X-men kind.

[@inuyasha989]

except their not as proven by when one of the battle bot guys came to robot wars when this was on spike tv and hosted by mcfolly from wwf it was one of the champions aka a very low flipper bot and was literally impaled on the spike pit in the finals by being bashed out of the arena by a bot that uses the high rpm spinning weapon :P so no battle bots are pussies compared to the people whove been on robot wars thats not to mention id love to see battle bot bots contend with the house bots instead of those pussy wall screws :P

[@achmed45662]

Brandon Lee QQi you forget that due to its impeccable driving and low wedge front firestorm would easily beat tombstone. Drive straight under it drive up to the wall fire the flipper and tombstone would be slammed against the wall and could potentially bounce out of the arena or bounce off the wall and fly across the box.

[@Eman-du7mw]

19:19

[@tibordijkstra5933]

Omgwtfbbq implement It really looks like prhttz niceparticipation .

[@XCAltoona]

#justiceforstorm2

[@samfm5244]

Robochicken got robbed

[@Matthew-qz5yt]

Lol

[@mynameishades2113]

These are ones of the most boring robot wars I've seen. And that's a top notch? Holy crap, bring me back Hypnodisc, Razer, Carbide and Tombstone please. I'm falling asleep

[@Zb8pablo]

huu

[@ikhsanmuhamad8863]

troll

[@karybradley5211]

I wish it exploded

[@Kaiimei]

*fapfapfapfap* I swear, I used to live for Robot Wars!

[@Unlivea]

omg 43.28

[@animelovers000]

re-watching series 7 on pluto tv and honestly it was a really dull series. Boring matches with boring robots with more than ever having flippers, rules changed and after razer was cheated out of that win with tornado in series 6 it's like it caused a lot of classic and popular robots not to come back for series 7.

[@Truly_Oranj]

Tiberius 3 copied razor

[@Unlivea]

43:28

[@user-iv1pi9xv3z]

METEHAN ÇETİN . Нет 43:54😆😆👍

[@j26hayes89]

Typhoon only won by cheating

[@Garfie489]

How did they cheat exactly?

[@tombardsley3081]

@@Garfie489they were spinning their weapon before activate was sounded. Especially on the restart

[@Garfie489]

@@tombardsley3081 which was allowed by the rules at the time, and was even explained in the full show.

[@tombardsley3081]

@@Garfie489 it wasn't though. JP commented that it wasn't allowed when 13 Black did exactly the same thing

[@Garfie489]

@tombardsley3081 different rules for different situations. Robot Wars had loads of weird rules. For example robots were allowed to be over the weight limit if they had Co2 on board

[@Zarrlpg3d]

battle bots are better

[@inuyasha989]

except their not as proven by when one of the battle bot guys came to robot wars when this was on spike tv and hosted by mcfolly from wwf it was one of the champions aka a very low flipper bot and was literally impaled on the spike pit in the finals by being bashed out of the arena by a bot that uses the high rpm spinning weapon :P so no battle bots are pussies compared to the people whove been on robot wars thats not to mention id love to see battle bot bots contend with the house bots instead of those pussy wall screws :P

[@kekkley]

You guys are little babys compared to my super roomba

[@LUMIGOCHA]

Annoying commentators... with just the audience it will suffy.

[@ZJasmineDragon]

you picked some o the worst

[@Neceros]

This is Battlebots, NOT Robot Wars.

[@njgw1465]

No, this is most definitely Robot Wars...

[@Neceros]

@@njgw1465 I think there's been some name confusion because... I can't find robot wars anywhere. It's all battlebots.

[@njgw1465]

@@Neceros both of them are TV shows in their own right.

[@wumbosaurus9121]

Anyone else find flippers boring?

[@DeltaHinata]

no

[@wumbosaurus9121]

@@DeltaHinata I'm surprised anyone would respond to that, I'm very surprised someone would respond 3 years later

[@DeltaHinata]

@@wumbosaurus9121 XD

[@DeltaHinata]

@@wumbosaurus9121 and then you will never know how to read my name

[@wumbosaurus9121]

@@DeltaHinata Well maybe not read it no, but I put it in translate which came out with Daimond Flying Dragon and that sounds pretty dope

[@thomasweaver6877]

Rip off of Battle bots

[@inuyasha989]

except this show originally aired on spike tv before battle bots came on on comedy central nice try fuckboy and this is also better cause its not a shitty arena with like a few screw traps on the wall :P hell back when this was on spike tv they literally hide for their finally a freaking SPIKE pit like something out of mortal combat lines along the edge of the arena so you could win by knocking your opponent into the spikes below to be impaled on or do it for a victory trashing if you manage to ko your opponent :P

[@thomasweaver6877]

nightshadow i am a f*ckboy? at least i am not Emo enough to make my name Night shadow idiot

[@kekkley]

You two fight like man baby