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  • Monty: Rock'em Sock'em Robots

    From Lynn McGuire@lynnmcguire5@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.comics.strips on Fri Dec 26 15:30:14 2025
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    Monty: Rock'em Sock'em Robots
    https://www.gocomics.com/monty/2025/12/26

    Yes ! Wait, we need a boxing arena first, this could get ugly.

    Lynn

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  • From ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan@tednolan to rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.comics.strips on Sat Dec 27 06:53:33 2025
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    In article <10imup7$2uqs2$1@dont-email.me>,
    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
    Monty: Rock'em Sock'em Robots
    https://www.gocomics.com/monty/2025/12/26

    Yes ! Wait, we need a boxing arena first, this could get ugly.

    Lynn


    There was an actually half good boxing robots movie some years
    back: "Real Steel" in 2011.
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    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..
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  • From kludge@kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) to rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.comics.strips on Sat Dec 27 09:01:27 2025
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    In article <mr9e3cF6213U1@mid.individual.net>,
    Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <10imup7$2uqs2$1@dont-email.me>,
    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
    Monty: Rock'em Sock'em Robots
    https://www.gocomics.com/monty/2025/12/26

    Yes ! Wait, we need a boxing arena first, this could get ugly.


    There was an actually half good boxing robots movie some years
    back: "Real Steel" in 2011.

    I have nothing important to add here, I just like saying
    "Roboxing es el pugilismo mecanico."
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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  • From ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan@tednolan to rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.comics.strips on Sat Dec 27 20:00:40 2025
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    In article <10ioorn$3tr$1@panix2.panix.com>,
    Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
    In article <mr9e3cF6213U1@mid.individual.net>,
    Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <10imup7$2uqs2$1@dont-email.me>,
    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
    Monty: Rock'em Sock'em Robots
    https://www.gocomics.com/monty/2025/12/26

    Yes ! Wait, we need a boxing arena first, this could get ugly.


    There was an actually half good boxing robots movie some years
    back: "Real Steel" in 2011.

    I have nothing important to add here, I just like saying
    "Roboxing es el pugilismo mecanico."
    --scott


    Well to add to my own post, it turns out the movie was based on a 1956
    Richard Matheson story from F&SF.
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    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..
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