Michael Buffer might be ready to rumble, but when it comes waxing poetic in the ring, Battlebots ring announcer Faruq Tauheed is in a league of his own. Tauheed, who’s from Philadelphia, really adds to the pageantry of the robotic battles with his clever robot introductions.

He could be referencing LL Cool J while introducing a contestant — “Don’t call it a comeback, he’s been here for years, rocking his peers, putting robots in fear. It’s Son of Whyachi!” Or he could be taking a page out of the Macbeth witches’ notebook with intros like “Glippity-gloppity, glippity-goo, the voodoo child is back for Season 2! It’s Witch Doctor!” Tauheed is very entertaining.

It is a rare joy to find a ring announcer who can still make calls like this: “He’s the Ayatollah of the remote controll-ah. Here with a modern marvel of wreck-nology, it’s Lock-jaw!“



Battlebots airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. on ABC.

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