User blog comment:CrashBash/Top Five Robot Wars controversies that made no difference/@comment-4700688-20180509083702/@comment-2118191-20180509130836

That is true, and I'm not denying that, but the thing is, Ironside ended up getting the upper-hand by disabling Pulsar's wheel when Pulsar was focusing on its other two opponents. In a head-to-head scenario, with no other robots to distract each other, it's potentially a very different story, and I wanted to stick to confrontations where they were solely focused on each other.

It's kinda like how Behemoth lost to Crushtacean in a head-to-head in S5, but beat it in a melee in S7 primarily because Crushty spend all its time focused on UFO. Not denying Behemoth deserved the win and the finishing blow, but if anything, it was UFO that deserved the knockout.