Sentences with phrase «underground robot boxing»
Charlie is a down - and - out former boxer turned sleazy fight promoter on the underground robot boxing circuit in a world where machines have replaced humans as prizefighting combatants.
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He also gets stuck with the boy for a summer, but the kid turns out to be a robot - boxing geek, and together they spend their limited time and money rehabbing a junkyard robot and taking it out on the underground circuit.
As they dispatch one opponent after another, they quickly become an underground sensation in the robot boxing world, eventually finding themselves squaring off against none other than the biggest and baddest robot in the sport, Zeus, whose owner (Olga Fonda) and creator (Karl Yune) they are determined to defeat them at all costs.
But beyond the professional robot boxing circuit, there are the underground games.
Set in the future world of 2020, where human boxing is not allowed and robots are manipulated to be boxers, the alcoholic and washed - up fighter Charlie Kenton, once a promising ex-fighter but now on the skids, handles giant steel robots in the boxing ring in underground venues.
The underground boxing scene, the robots fighting in abandoned zoos or even going head - to - head against a live bull, have a rustic, dirty feel about them.