User blog comment:CrashBash/Top Five Craziest Fights/@comment-9751413-20181117193556

Aight, i know it doesn't have much relevance to this blog, but can we discuss Rameses II vs Mortis.

Doing the episode write up, I'm obviously having to watch the fights again and meticulously to write up everything that happened, but I think this is an underrated "Arena Spike screw over".

We have many examples of the Arena Spike stopping a robot on top winning a battle. Think about Behemoth, Pitbull, Thing 2 and Aftershock and you come up with robots that were eliminated because of the spike, sometimes because they were leading the fight.

However, it gets overlooked in Series 2, and it looks genuinely like Rameses II was also cheated by the spike.

When I say cheated, I mean it. Rameses was fighting Mortis in the semi-final round of Heat C, and off the start, Mortis drives across the arena to axe Rameses. Fair enough. Rameses then proceeds to push Mortis the entire length of the arena and into the CPZ. Mortis is ganged up on by Shunt and Sir Killalot, and you just have to look at previous heats to see that this should be it for the robot in the PPZ. Rameses was doing a great job of holding Mortis in the PPZ.

Then the floor spike fires, lifting Rameses II up, and breaking its traction, allowing Mortis to escape. The next shot shows Rameses in the PPZ, being mullered more aggressively than Mortis was, then Sir Killalot goes full Ironside3 and lifts Rameses up and overturns it on the flame pit. A real TPTB favoured battle this one.

Rameses literally outpushed Mortis, and I don't think it gets enough credit for that. Y'know, in Heat A, we had Napalm vs Panda Monium, where Napalm does nothing and Panda Monium happens to stray into the PPZ and gets flipped instantly. Here, Mortis takes some really weak axe hits from Shunt and the spike fully ruins all of Rameses's good work.

/rant