But there can only be one ultimate champion in the world of Robot Combat Sports.īattleBots returns on Tuesday, Decemat 8 p.m.
If there is no knockout during the battle, a panel of judges will declare a victor. Last year’s World Champion robot “Bite Force” will return to defend its title – competing against innovative newcomers with groundbreaking designs as well as perennial crowd favorites like Tombstone, Witch Doctor, Death Roll, Lock-Jaw and SawBlaze.Įach match consists of two remote-controlled robots competing in a single, three-minute round with the goal to destroy or disable their opponent. Fans will also witness never-seen-before technology, such as robots that can walk on legs and new designs to withstand even bigger blows. This year’s builders will stop at nothing to take down the competition with custom-made weaponry like metal-scorching flamethrowers, hydraulic flippers and spinning blades with speeds reaching more than 200 mph.
We naturally talked BattleBots going into season five, what we can expect from future seasons say something a la Real Steel and what it was like to have a limited crowd but still keeping up the energy for the viewing audience at home. We caught up with Tauheed the day before Thanksgiving and invited ourselves over when we found out what was on the menu. Nothing adds to the awesomeness of a great show like a great announce team and when you throw in an energetic ring announcer like Faruq Tauheed, You know you’re in for an awesome time. Competitors from around the world will face off to prove who is the ultimate robot-building genius when an all-new season on Tuesday, Decemat 8 p.m.
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The epic, robot-fighting series BattleBots returns bigger than ever before – with an unprecedented 50 hours of programming on Discovery. "I've never experienced the type of passion that people from Philly got.Ring Announcer, father and all around great guy, Faruq Tauheed Talks About the Return of BattleBots on Discovery Channel! I mean that's what this city is," he said. "Philly can be a rough city, but it taught me to stand my ground, it taught me to be strong, it taught me about resilience, it taught me about hard work. He even goes by the handle Faruqadelphia on Instagram and Twitter. "If you just let me do it one time, just introduce the team one time, just say 'Your Super Bowl champions, the Philadelphia Eagles!' at one game, listen, that would make my life," he said.īut as proud as he is of the Eagles, Jenkins is proud to be from Philly even more. Now, this announcer with the booming voice who came back to town for the Birds' season opener last week has one more wish - to introduce the Eagles. > MORE WE THE PEOPLE: South Philly brothers tackle the Eagles' dirty laundry "When that ball got stripped out of Tom Brady's hand - waterworks! Water. This year, he dyed his beard green and came back to Philly to watch the Super Bowl. Jenkins, who is married and has an 11-year-old son, has a passion too - for the Eagles. "The passion that's inside of people for the things that they love, that's what draws me to things." "It wasn't like anything else to me, but at the same time it was like everything else," he said. When he got the call to host the reboot of BattleBots in 2015, robot fighting was a "brand new world" to him.
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Jenkins is voicing the mayor on Amazon Prime's reboot of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and he's been on several TV shows, including The Bernie Mac Show, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and The Shield, which he auditioned for 13 times before being cast as "a pimp named Smooth." He was also a contestant on the first season of MasterChef with Gordon Ramsay and starred in the ABC/Disney movie Selma, Lord, Selma.Ībout 10 years ago, Jenkins branched out into announcing with the video-game maker EA Sports, hosting Madden Challenge video-game tournaments across the country.
"There are a lot of people above me that their careers are more stable and locked in, but there's 20 times more people below me that would want half of what I do," he said. Jenkins went on to Marymount Manhattan College in New York City and moved to Los Angeles in 2001, where he's been a performer ever since. > MORE WE THE PEOPLE: North Philly dance teacher 'brought arts to the hood' "I was the only guy in the hood walking around wearing tights," he said. Fellow Philly Boy, Faruq Tauheed sits down with Totally Driven Radios Bay Ragni to talk Philly, Voice over acting, Battlebots, the new NBC Show Roots Less. Jenkins' mom later enrolled him in Freedom Theater, where he studied acting and dance while attending the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts. The eldest of three boys, Jenkins, 39, loved his childhood growing up near 72nd and Ogontz Streets, where he'd play stick ball in the street. GMC Sierra TV spot, Discovery Channel: Battlebots Featuring Faruq Tauheed - 17.
But at one time, Jenkins was just a theater kid from Philly who had to wear tights in the hood. Find, watch, and interact with all your favorite Faruq Tauheed TV.
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