User blog:ToastUltimatum/Top 50 Behemoth Fights

Behemoth is a robot I've never felt too strongly about. I've never once called myself a "Behemoth fan", but I certainly don't dislike it either. I love flippers, and Behemoth always had my support, but I've never really cheered it onto heat victory (until Series 10). It's just been the robot that was present for almost all of Robot Wars ' entire run, and simply by being in attendance for almost every series, Behemoth ended up in some of the greatest fights of all time. I have my entire Top 50 in front of me, and there's some fights that I can't believe didn't make the top ten!

So here we are, with the Top 50 Behemoth fights! I've ranked these entirely based on how much I like the fights this time. While I definitely could have attempted an objective ranking in the vein of NJGW's Ultimate Countdown, there are a couple of Behemoth fights out there that I feel strongly about, which otherwise fall under the radar. Rather than putting these fights higher or lower than I would want to, I'm just going to rank them with my personal enjoyment as the only criteria - especially as a neutral party who can't really be biased in favour of Behemoth, or biased against it.

I did consider throwing in the three Anty B fights... but then it wouldn't be a Top 50, would it? Other than that, the only "fights" you won't see are the Series 2 Gauntlet & Trial runs. Again, these could have been included, but they'd all be on the low end, and would ruin my lovely even 50.

The Unrateables
Before we get to the main entries, Behemoth had five fights which took place in the Robot Wars arena, but never aired on television. One of those is fully accessible online, so I'm comfortable including that on the main list, but the rest naturally cannot be accurately ranked. As a small prequel list, I'll attempt to rank those through pure guesswork alone!

5. Southern Annihilator, Round 3
Oh, and let's chuck this one in too, just so we have a clear bottom of the list, definitively the worst Behemoth fight of all time, the one that didn't even begin! If I were granted the power of time travel then bringing Behemoth a spare gear for this fight would be on my agenda, right after I deliver Vulture a new drive motor...

4. Vs TR2 (Series 9)
Not the Battle of the Stars fight, but the whiteboard match which was filmed immediately afterwards, under the controls of the actual team members. Perhaps I should commission Jimlaad43 to write this section, considering he saw the fight in person! Indeed it was his description which allows me to know what happened in this fight, and it just sounds terrible. In it, TR2's flipper didn't work, resigning it to the wedgebot we saw against Supernova and Or Te, except this time it's against a flipper. Unsurprisingly, Behemoth ends it in seconds, but knowing that this was a whiteboard fight designed to keep the crowd happy while Team Eruption desperately try to repair their robot before the Series 9 title fight, Behemoth flips TR2 back onto its wheels every time after they had already secured the knockout. One of the most frustrating things about whiteboard fights is that they tend not to have a winner, and Behemoth probably won this several times over... until TR2 pushes Behemoth into the pit!! TR2 gets another win notched against its name all because Behemoth tried to provide some more entertainment, and given that 99% of Robot Wars fans never saw this fight, I would honestly prefer a Behemoth OHKO here just for the statistics.

3. Vs Cerberus (Series 3)
Nobody knows why this fight took place. Nobody know what happened in this fight. Nobody knows who won this fight... although I think I can guess! Even the Behemoth team themselves can't recollect this fight whatsoever despite seeing the picture and acknowledging that it must have happened, surely the only possibility is that it was over within one or two flips.

2. Vs Gabriel (Series 8)
This was the only one of the four whiteboard fights in this section to actually get some screentime on television, as a landmark shot in the Series 8 opening. Based on this single clip, and the fact that Gabriel won this by Judges' decision, you'd think this could've been a corker of a fight! I haven't seen the battle, so I can't say for sure, but I would guess it probably wasn't. Gabriel is known to have lost drive on one side very early into this match, and yet despite being immobile, it still did enough to win the battle via decision. The decision of... the audience. I'm glad we have an official winner for this one, but I'm not too sure I can trust the audience here, Behemoth may have been cheated out of a whiteboard win AGAIN...

1. Vs Eruption (Series 8)
Seemingly the only good option! This is not the Eruption whiteboard fight I dream of seeing, as I would absolutely love to see it throw Shockwave out of the arena, while I'm slightly less enthralled about the first of four Eruption vs Behemoth fights in Robot Wars, but this still probably would've been quite decent! I can imagine it being much like the Series 10 encounter, except with the known knockout against the arena wall that Eruption righted Behemoth from... probably a good decision to help it qualify for Series 9! This fight sounds like Behemoth's weakest showing out of the unrateables, but the best fight overall.