Originally Posted by
Zelda
The people building the robots are payed for by sponsors and the sponsors get their money back from successful advertising. People paying to watch it get to see something awesome, and it would of probably been spent on something equally wasteful anyway. If it is economically viable and technologically possible, I can see no reason why it would be a bad thing.
Keep in mind they payed Pacquiao $50M and Mayweather got twice that so if the technology is advanced enough they would have a decent budget to work with. And BattleBots is a good example that people would watch a sport without any Human to Human Physical Contact.