What happened
California’s athletic commission ordered Robot Entertainment Kombat to stop promoting covered human bouts without approval and a license after a September 18 San Francisco exhibition involving Frankie LaPenna. LaPenna faced three robot opponents and won two matchups. REK CEO Cix Liv disputes how existing combat-sports rules apply to a robot opponent.
The six-foot Terminator was advertised as weighing 200 pounds, with kick force of up to 850 pounds. The force figure is a promotional claim, not an independently measured result.
Reporting snapshot: October 7, 2026. REK was then listing an October 9 San Francisco Deathmatch; human participation was unclear. That listing does not establish what happened at the later event. This Newstro report is dated October 12, 2026.
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