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- You're damn right they would.

- You listening to this kid? Jeez!

- Good fight, fellas.

- Thanks, man.

- Look at this. Let's celebrate.

- Yeah.

- All right, 70-30, right?

- Yeah, 70 for me and 30 for you.

- That's so right.

- That's very funny.

- I told you we shouldn't have sold him.

- OK. No, no, no.

I remember now. Who's right?

Say who's right. Say "Max is right."

All right, all right. All right.

- We're a good team.

- No, no. Max is right.

That was unbelievable.

Thank you, Twin Cities.

- We set?

- Yeah.

- Let's do it.

- Charlie boy.

- Ricky, I was just going to call you.

- Oh, yeah.

I actually really was going to call you.

Don't worry about that.

That was a heck of a fight.

Congratulations to both of you.

That was good.

It was an amazing fight.

That was a great job, young man.

- Come on, man.

- What?

- You serious?

- You thought I was joking

when I said I'd beat you

within an inch of your life?

He thought that was a joke.

It wasn't a joke.

I got a kid here. And I have your money.

We don't have a problem.

I'm sure you do,

but I think we know it's about

much more than money, don't we?

All right. What do you want?

You want 25, 30? You want 30 grand?

- I got the money in cash here.

- Yeah, right.

Let's go! Max, go! Go, go! Run!

- Run! Come on. Keep up, keep up!

- Get him now!

Run! Come on!

Get off him! Get off him!

Come here!

Hey, Ricky.

That's his money!

Leave him out of this!

Stop!

Stop!

Take all his money. Take it all.

Your friend's a real dirtbag, kid.

He's my father!

Well. Looks like a little less

than an inch of your life.

Well, buddy, that will teach him.

Just like old times, Charlie boy!

Let's go, boys.

I'm sorry, Max. I'm sorry. Sorry.

- What are we doing here?

- Max, just...

Is it Farra? She called you, didn't she?

We're going to get the Zeus fight.

It's not the Zeus people. I've been

thinking about all this, and...

Max!

It's so good to see you.

- What is she doing here?

- It's better if you go with her now.

We get beat up,

so you call her to come and get me?

He's been beat up. I told you

he couldn't take care of him!

Yeah. I called her.

Look at us. We're a mess.

We're fine. She can leave!

Atom's fighting good.

We can make the money back.

Charlie, please.

Just...

Charlie, we're doing so good.

Charlie, please, no.

Don't. Don't. Don't.

Please. Please.

Trust me, kid.

It's better this way, all right?

I know you think you know

what's right, but you don't.

You're too young. You don't know.

Look at me, trust me.

And legally she has custody,

so what can I do?

What can I do?

I don't want your money, Marvin.

Max, we have our own swimming pool

and we have a hot tub and a lot

of super fun toys to play with.

Do you want to play with them?

It's going to be fun.

What's going on?

He won't even talk to me,

so thanks for that, Charlie.

I'm going to wait in the car.

You don't want to talk, fine. I'll talk.

What do you want me to say? I'm sorry?

You knew from day one what this was.

You decided to take the ride.

You thought me, you,

and a little robot from the junk heap

were going to ride off into the sunset?

No, you forgot who I was!

You deserve better...

...than me.

Will you say something, please?

I tried. What do you want from me?

I want you to fight for me.

That's all I ever wanted.

Don't ask.

So no Max.

It's better this way.

Marv and Debra have money. Max is set.

Did you not see the way

he looked at you?

That's the way I looked at my dad.

Even now I would give anything

to have that back.

Your dad was special.

He was in your corner from day one.

Me, come on. I blew it.

I blew it.

When Max was born I just...

...freaked out.

But something

would have been better than nothing.

I wouldn't know where to start.

- Yeah, you do.

- I don't.

- You do.

- No.

You do.

I got to go.

Twelve hundred miles for a kiss.

Worth it. Worth it.

Go get him, Charlie.

You sound like your dad.

Look, I know you think I abandoned you,

and I guess I did originally.

Then you sold me.

Charlie.

You have no business being here.

That's true.

You've got full custody. He's yours.

And I know I've done all kinds of wrong

by this kid, but if you'll let me...

...I'd just like to do one thing right.

Right.

- Where were we?

- You sold me.

Right, yeah, that happened.

- Wait, what?

- Then we had our asses kicked.

And you slept on a shelf in a truck,

and it was awful.

- And dangerous.

- Really dangerous.

I mean, I know. God. I'm sorry.

That's why you came?

To say you're sorry?

No. I mean, yes. Yes.

But no. No, I came to tell you

that I heard you.

I got it.

I'm a little slow, but I got it.

I know you had a bum ride, and I

wasn't there and I should have been.

I should have been.

Your mom was...

She was cool, wasn't she?

She was.

She was the coolest.

Yeah, she was.

And I'm sorry about...

what happened with her.

And I can't get those years back, Max,

but I'm here right now...

...and if you're up for it,

I'm ready to fight.

We got the Zeus fight.

What?

No, no, we didn't.

You got the Zeus fight.

So what do you say, Debra?

Can we do this one last thing?

- One night.

- It's all we need. Thank you.

We'll probably get our asses kicked,

but at least we'll go down swinging.

Yeah? What do you say?

Welcome to New York's Bing Arena

and the Real Steel Championship Bout.

Tim, it's the fight

we never thought we'd see.

Zeus, the undefeated WRB champion,

against the underdog, rising star Atom.

The champ's handlers

have agreed to fight

outside the circle

of well-known League bots,

and have decided to give the people

a true David versus Goliath spectacle.

Now, Tim, help me out on this.

Has the Zeus camp lost their mind?

The greatest robot boxer of all time

gives a shot at the belt

to a G-2 named Atom?

Well, Herb, if you ask Tak Mashido,

Team Zeus has lost their minds.

Now, he may look cool

as he enters the arena,

but he has made no bones

about his disdain for this matchup.

Our cameras tried to catch up

with him earlier this week.

Look at this clip. Mashido wouldn't

even stop to talk to the press,

referring only to this fight

as an insult to his creation.

Now, Max Kenton, Atom's trainer,

did more than just challenge Zeus.

He did so publicly.

The challenge went viral and created

a PR nightmare for the champ.

No argument there. And I think the Zeus

camp knows exactly what they're doing.

That they do. Come on.

Giving a shot at the belt

to a nobody from nowhere.

This "junkyard dog," if you will.

That's a marketing stunt.

And judging from this crowd,

that stunt is working.

We can't win, can we?

We'll see.

As the challenger

makes his way into the arena,

you can hear the surge of excitement.

Atom has arrived

onto the WRB scene with a vengeance,

using a style,

some would call it human-like,

that bot fighting has rarely seen.

Atom and his pint-size trainer

step into the ring

and the look on

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