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 :')

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

Battlebots has come a long way. These bots are phenomenal. Can’t believe gigabyte survived those hits.

Gigabyte had a massive opening and for some reason got scared to take it

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.

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.

I feel like the biggest issue with full body spinners like Gigabyte and Captain Shredderator, as opposed to horizontal spinners like Tombstone and Rotator, is that the when facing against vertical spinners like hypershock, and have that chance of being launched in the air, the fast spinning body heavily shakes the mechanics of the bot which could eventually rip itself apart as we see here. Gigabyte wasn’t instantly dismantled when it was hit by Hypershock, you can see how much it’s shaking in the air until it tears itself apart.

I love the look on Will's face

Dang that’s crazy that last one caught me off guard

"This is weird oh my transmitter got changed!" Love it 😂

With the full body rotator, when it gets launched in the air, the drive part of it wants to rotate in the opposite direction of the rotator. The balance of the whole bot becomes almost non existent. That last, long flight was a killer. What a hard shot, from the vertical spinner.

The guy on Team Hypershock's look was priceless. It was as if he had the look of "Did I do that?"

I read a comments but saw some hype and didn't want to spoil what was apparently coming up... But I was NOT prepared for that finish!!!! WOW!!!!

Gigabyte: "They're done. We got this guys." Hypershock: "Nope."

Someone wasn't paying attention during physics class. Doubling the angular velocity quadruples the kinetic energy. ..or as the kids say, double yer rotation speed and quadruple your self-yeeting capability!

Advances in material sciences, teams of engineers, 10's of thousands of dollars poured into every competetion... and *still* nobody can hit with anything as crushing as the time Johnny5 called your mother a snowblower almost 40 years ago.

Gigabyte was like a true example of durability, but Hyper shock has the blunt force power to rip buts like Gigabyte in the air.

Gigabyte literally just exploded

I guess Gigabyte's team held back out of a sense of fair play, but that turned out to be a significant tactical error.

One for the ages. The way that bot came apart in midair.. Pure brutalist art.

The durability of gigabyte here was crazy. A lot of bots would have been done on that first hit, or at least their weapon would have been.

That was one of the most brutal hit ever seen in battle bots and the most brutal I've seen

I'm sold on robot battles especially now say after seeing him that knockout punch at the end

THAT WAS CRAZY!! First time seeing this kind of thing and I want more!!

Poetry in motion. This is one of the best robot fights.

At first I was very dissapointed it was taking 5 minutes to get into ONE bot battle on the hardest hitS video... But then it was all worthwhile.

I’ve been watching BB since the Comedy Central days and I have *NEVER EVER* seen a bot disintegrate while about 10-15 feet in the air. Will Bales has himself a lifetime residency in the Battlebots Big Hits Hall of Fame

Good thing the ref counted, who would've known what Gigabyte could've done after that.

As someone who's seen multiple generations of Battle Bot competitions all the way back to the first in 2000, I have NEVER seen a more brutal strike than the final one in this battle. That was EPIC!

*I LOVE how HYPERSHOCK reminds me of an old TYCO RC car*

Fast forward 3 months and Riptide completely OBLITERATES Hypershock and throws it 25 feet in the air, man I love this show

That flight was so majestic. I wish someone got a high quality slo mo of that. That KO was on some anime.

That was right up there with Son of Whyachi’s one-punch KO of Nightmare.

The two most exciting words ever spoken. "Robots Activate!"

What a brilliant performance by Hypershock, even Will looks shocked at what it can do here. They finally made it Suck Less! XD Also, thank you for posting this one. More of these please!

The fact they were still trying to control gigabyte after that final blow is golden 😂 One of the best matches.

Damn that was actual cool to watch

Good lord, both Hypershock and Gigabyte have improved so much over the years. I'm impressed by Gigabyte's durability! It was working and kept working up to the moment it was split in two. It took quite a few good hits to split Gigabyte in half too. Earlier versions of Gigabyte would've been knocked out faster, and the weapon would've been finished a lot sooner.

As close as Battle Bots will get to “that man just exploded”. Amazing hits by Hypershock

For a second I thought some artificial graphics were thrown in the mix. Jaw dropping moment! Unbelievable!! Wow!!

Wow Over the top action. I was not sure what to expect but this exceeded it. I want MORE!

I love it when ads play right before the action, then I have to rewind because the video doesn't pickup where it left off. Sometimes I miss cable TV. They didn't jerk you around during sports action.

Spontaneous Unplanned Midflight Disassembly.

What an awesome KO!

Bot: *explodes into a hundred pieces, clearly no way it can even dream of continuing* Ref: *TEN!!!!!*

Hypershock absolutely annihilated gigabyte

Hypershock: What direction do you want to go after I hit you? Gigabyte: Yes.

"This is weird, oh my transmitter got changed" is what I plan to say next time I crash an rc plane, heli or quad.

Hypershock has some of the best upperattack, but its really unstable and can hurt itself and needs a second set of protection

Absolutely amazing. Hypershock wasn't about to quit!

Even though he lost as a result of hanging back, that was some damn good sportsmanship on the gigabyte team's part

action starts at 4: 50

Best bot battle I've ever seen. Sick!

use this as a lesson people: take every opportunity you notice like it's the last one ya got.

There is nothing like having a crazy hard day at work, and come home , have a beer, and watch bots just beat the crap out of one another.

I've never seen this battle before holy buckets two pieces of one bot not including the self-righter insane 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 DANM first time I've even heard of this the name does not do Justice to this video. The old WTF look is just hilarious.

I like that there's now a much higher wall to get over in order to throw an opponent out of the arena

That Dragonball-like thumbnail tho

What a great bit of driving by Will. He could only crab walk, but got that wedge in front of Gig at just the right time.

And THAT is what makes Battlebots awesome.

I’ve seen a lot of battles in the past but I have never watched a bot literally dismantle its opponent for a clutch victory.

😮😮😮😮😮 shock came out throwing bombs 💣

So nice to see this show has so much hype. I remember watching this as a kid. That final move on Gigabyte! hOLY CRAP!

I’m glad hypershock won. His story is amazing. Single mom, from the a bad area, first yellow bot to do it.

This takes DAYUM to a whole new level

Best fight in battle bots by far

This whole episode is one of the best episodes aired. From the Mad Catter to the Hypershock run, it was sick.

To quote Yu Yu Hakusho's favorite Announcer: "Oh my goodness, it was so beautiful; bones(parts) flying everywhere as if from a busted piñata!"

Hypershock: “ Call an ambulance… But not for me.”

That hit could not have lined up more perfectly

Guess Gigabyte can't handle the most electrifying move in BattleBots entertainment, from HyperShock!!!! 😂😂😂😂

Holy Guacamole!! Insane!!

“You should’ve finished me when you had the chance” -hypershock

WOW!!! In the words of Mortal Combat....FATALITY!!!

Blast from the past. Used to be obsessed with this show as a kid.

Someone better kept that destroyed Battlebots logo that got slammed by gigabyte's top half. That would be quite the wallhanger

Will Bales isn't just a showman. He's a monster in the box.

For me that was the greatest BattleBot fight i have ever seen.

That was pretty much a Mortal Kombat fatality

Only true battlebots fans remember when Hypershock had a rake

Bro disintegrated that thing like he was thanos

Please upload more BattleBots clips!

This is a perfect match to show starters to the show

Serious wheelin' & dealin'!