What we don't know
Open questions
Results that were never published, records that sources disagree on, and fixtures announced with no date. Everything on this page is a gap in the public record of this sport — not a gap in our reporting of it.
Most sports records can assume the result exists somewhere. This one cannot. Humanoid fighting is covered mainly by manufacturers announcing their own events, state broadcasters covering them as technology stories, and city newspapers writing in languages the promoters do not publish in. Results go missing, and nobody notices because nobody is keeping a list.
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14Who won kickboxing at the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games?
Kickboxing was a scored contact sport at the first Games in Beijing in August 2025 — 280 teams, 26 events, 487 matches. The medallists have never been published anywhere findable, in English or in Chinese. Unitree's 11 medals and 4 golds are all on record and all on the track; what happened in the ring is not.
Who won martial arts at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games?
Martial arts was promoted from demonstration to scored competition for the second edition, which makes its medallists the most significant unpublished result in the sport. The full medal table by organisation is known — AGIBOT topped it with 18 gold — but the martial arts placings specifically have not been released.
Who actually won the three bouts at SCL's First Light?
SCL announced First Light for 23 May 2026 and streamed it on X, Kick and YouTube. Results are circulating — Elelliana Affendiva by knockout in round two, Isaac Quinn Lee by unanimous decision, and Bibian by medical stoppage — but they rest on a single aggregator with no established editorial record, and the league has published no result sheet of its own. No bout rows were created here: the machines are unnamed, so recording a winner would mean inventing the robot it was recorded against. The stream exists, which makes this checkable rather than merely open.
Who won EngineAI's Mecha King on 24 December 2025?
Billed as the first full-size humanoid free-combat championship. EngineAI open-sourced the robot code so teams could train their own fighters, staged the event in Shenzhen, and never published a winner. The same company went on to found URKL, which publishes results — which makes the silence about this one harder to explain, not easier.
Did SCL change its bout format between First Light and New Dawn?
First Light is described as three rounds of three minutes with a health-bar scoring system — 50 points for a head strike, 25 for a body strike — resolved by knockout, technical knockout or points. BERNAMA describes New Dawn MY as bouts of up to 15 minutes, or until a machine stops getting back up. Those are not the same sport. No source states that a change was made, so this is either an undocumented rule change between the league's first and second events or one of the two descriptions is wrong.
When and where is the CMG2026 final?
China Media Group announced the competition on 10 June 2026 and opened global recruitment the next day. Three stages were described, ending in a championship finale of full-size autonomous combat. As of September 2026 neither the date nor the venue has been published — which also means nobody entering can know what they are entering.
What hardware is an SCL Shadow?
One uncorroborated source says the Shadows are built on the Unitree G1 and that an EngineAI T800 was added in July 2026. Neither the league's own release nor BERNAMA names a platform, and SCL's website publishes no specifications. It matters beyond trainspotting: if the Shadows are G1s then SCL is running the same machine as UFB in the United States and the Iron Fist King tournament in China, which makes performance across those three leagues directly comparable for the first time.
How autonomous are URKL's robots, really?
Sources conflict. Some describe a semi-autonomous arrangement in which a human operator supplies intent and onboard AI executes the movement; others describe full autonomy with no human in the loop. Both cannot be true, and the answer decides what the sport is: a league of algorithms, or a league of drivers. The 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games took the question seriously enough to halve the points of any teleoperated robot.
Does Shadow Combat League operate a token, and does it carry betting?
A single uncorroborated source describes an SCL token on Base, built with Virtuals Protocol, granting event access, governance and betting. No first-party SCL source seen here mentions a token at all, and the league's website publishes nothing on it. It is recorded as a question rather than a fact for two reasons: the source is thin, and if it is true it is the most consequential thing about this league for anyone writing about it. This site does not carry wagering and does not intend to; covering a league that does is a separate matter from operating one, but it should be covered knowingly rather than by accident.
Did Tiangong Ultra run 100 m in 8.86 s or 9.39 s?
X-Humanoid's Tiangong Ultra set the headline track records at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games, and the 100 m time is reported as both 8.86 seconds and 9.39 seconds across sources. Half a second is the difference between beating Usain Bolt's world record and not.
Which six cities does CyberHero's world circuit visit?
Hero Esports announced an eight-city season across four regions — two Middle East, one Europe, one Americas, one Asia and one more — at the Riyadh launch on 9 September 2026. Riyadh is one. The other cities have not been named and no dates have been published. Six announced fixtures with no location is a fact worth tracking, and nobody else is tracking it.
Has anyone independently verified Unitree's autonomous combat claim?
Unitree announced UnifoLM-X2-1.0 on 7 September 2026, claiming the first fully autonomous high-dynamic humanoid combat — no teleoperation, no choreography. Its predecessor UnifoLM-WMA-0 was open-sourced in September 2025. The claim is the manufacturer's own and has not been independently verified. UC Berkeley's Ken Goldberg calls this category of event robot theater: "Many of them have humans controlling them... Beware of what you see in the videos, it isn't quite real."
What were the scores at URKL's Shanghai stop?
Press reports say White Eagle's team took both the afternoon and evening sessions at Baoshan Gymnasium on 19 September 2026. Phoenix and NetEase carry that sentence word for word, which is one wire text with two carriers rather than two independent accounts. No round-by-round scorecard, no method and no bout-by-bout card has been published, EngineAI has issued no result statement, and Xinhua's English report of the same event names no winner at all.
How many fought at REK 2, and who else was on the card?
Two Japanese outlets report the REK 2 final (Hiroyuki Osone beat SUSLIKE) and the semi-final that produced it, on 15 August 2026 in San Francisco. Neither gives the number of entrants, the undercard, or a result sheet from REK itself. The promotion publishes a list of its past fights, so this is checkable rather than merely open — and the same list should settle whether REK counts REK 2 and REK Tokyo among the fourteen fights it claims.
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Questions that have since been answered. They stay here because how long a fact took to surface is part of the record.
Who actually won the URKL opener — White Eagle or Matador?
Matador, 3–2 over five rounds. Guangzhou's Huacheng and People's Daily both scored it that way independently, and Wikipedia's URKL article agrees; the site's own machine pages have said so since they were written. The confusion is real but one-sided: White Eagle threw the kick that removed Matador's head, and a highlight that big travels further than a scorecard. EngineAI has still published no result, so this is recorded as reported rather than confirmed.
Answered Sat, Sep 12, 2026. Source
How can New Dawn MY be watched from outside Kuala Lumpur?
Live on Shadow Combat League's own YouTube channel: the full show was streamed as a 3-hour-41-minute broadcast starting 6:27 PM Malaysia time, and remains on the channel as a replay. Malaysian broadcast partners (Tonton, MYTV Mana-Mana) were named in a promoter story, but no broadcast on either has been confirmed.
Answered Fri, Oct 9, 2026. Source