A massive scandal hits the Robot Fighting League. Tulsa Police raid a ‘Bot-Chop Shop’ installing illegal EMPs and jammers on fighting roosters. See the seized tech that ruined the sport. #TrueCrime #RobotWars
By TheLastUpdates Editorial Team | December 16, 2025
The golden age of “Clean Robot Combat” might be over before it truly began.
Just weeks after Oklahoma legalized robotic cockfighting, the Tulsa Police Department has uncovered a massive cheating scandal that threatens to destroy the integrity of the sport.
In a pre-dawn raid on Tuesday, officers stormed a nondescript warehouse in the Industrial District. They expected to find stolen copper. Instead, they found a high-tech “doping” lab for fighting roosters.
The “Invisible” Weapons
In the official league (OML), robots are strictly regulated. They can use kinetic weapons (saws, hammers) and limited flame, but Electronic Warfare is strictly banned.
The raid, dubbed “Operation Short Circuit,” seized 45 combat bots that had been modified with illegal military-grade hardware:
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Micro-EMPs: Tiny electromagnetic pulse generators hidden in the robot’s beak. When the bot pecked an opponent, it would fry the other robot’s brain instantly. To the crowd, it looked like a “lucky knockout.”
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Lidar Jammers: Devices that blinded the opponent’s sensors, making them spin in circles helplessly.
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“Kill Switches”: Remote receivers that allowed the house to shut down their own bot to fix a match for gambling purposes.
The Kingpin: “The Technomancer”
Police arrested four individuals, including a former defense contractor engineer known in the underground forums as “The Technomancer.”
“These guys weren’t just building toys,” said Tulsa Police Chief Dennis Halloway. “They were weaponizing consumer electronics. We found code that suggests they were planning to sell these ‘EMP Beaks’ to drone operators overseas.”
The Fallout
The Oklahoma Mecha-League (OML) has suspended all matches for two weeks while they “autopsy” every registered robot for illegal mods.
For the fans, the betrayal is real. “We thought this was the one honest sport left,” said one bettor on Reddit. “Turns out, robots are just as corruptible as humans—if the human holding the controller is a crook.