American Gladiators is rigged, dude

[Push R Truth]

y2ejm said:

br329 said:

And she can kick 90% of people on this boards ass's

Glad I'm in that other 10%...

I'm in that 10%, ever since that ass removal surgery I had.

[Johnny Danger (Godz)]

grendel432 said:

thewarryah said:

I think Hogan will turn into LUCHA HOGAN and start handing out enziguri's if you call his show 'rigged.'

On a lighter note... making fun of chicks that look like men = serious bidness.

Somehow, the image of Hulk Hogan in a Lucha mask trying to hit an enziguri makes me chuckle. The man couldn't get a figure four leg lock correctly on Monday Nitro on Ric Flair ... Flair had to tell him how to do it right. I guess Lou Thesz was correct about his wrestling ability on that wrestling documentary narrated by Steve Allen.

So, I take it you've never seen Hulk (as WWF champion) in 1993 vs the Great Muta in Japan where Hogan hit an enziguri just fine.

[Porky's Butthole]

aaronedangerously said:

If you just saw the ending to the women's competition between Venus and Koya, I hope you'll agree that the fact that Koya couldn't GET THE smurf UP after falling down on the treadmill thing is just ridiculous. She just hung there for like 20 seconds! That's ridiculous!

Also, she was totally past the scoring zone on the pyramid, and the fact that they didn't count it is TOTALLY BULLcrap.

Gah! It's so smurfing rigged!

Oh boy.

1: The pyramid? You have to be entirely over the scoring line. NOT draped over it, hanging from it. She did not score.

2: The treadmill...ever hear of exhaustion?

Overall, I prefer the old AG. Especially when it comes to Hang Tough. Good god, those Gladiators sucked ass in that one. In the old one, seriously, how many people actually won HT by making it all the way across? Very few. And like never when that hot leggy Gladiator was doing it(Sky?).

[mysterydriver]

A Gladiator injured himself...trying to swing. That's ridiculous.

Thank goodness for Wolf and his smacktalking ways.

[Grendel]

godz said:

grendel432 said:

Somehow, the image of Hulk Hogan in a Lucha mask trying to hit an enziguri makes me chuckle. The man couldn't get a figure four leg lock correctly on Monday Nitro on Ric Flair ... Flair had to tell him how to do it right. I guess Lou Thesz was correct about his wrestling ability on that wrestling documentary narrated by Steve Allen.

So, I take it you've never seen Hulk (as WWF champion) in 1993 vs the Great Muta in Japan where Hogan hit an enziguri just fine.

No, I did not. I did see him, however, screw up a figure four leg lock on an episode of Nitro. You could see him obviously messing up and if you looked close, you could see Flair telling him something and then Hogan was finally able to get the move done.

Not the biggest botch I'd seen on Nitro. That one would have been I believe Raven and a member of his flock screwing up a double team move on one of the Villianos, and the way he landed it looked like he snapped his neck.

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

Don't mess with Hulk, or he'll light flash paper and throw it in your face!

I said, he'll light...he'll light...

Dammit.

[Vice honcho room temperature]

evilmasterbetty said:

hoagiewithpastrami said:

What if someone has an emergency during the Eliminator and absolutely HAS to come out up out of the water for breath and panics and comes up right in the fire?

Do they just die? Is that it?

Sadly, not much. I assume they wouldn't die if they came up in the fire. There are safety right there to pull them out and get to them quickly if it happened.

As for legally, contestants usually have to sign waivers, which usually contain a clause saying no one but themselves is responsible for what happens, including death. So if that were to happen, the family probably wouldn't be able to get to NBC et al. unless they proves some other wrongdoing.

I'm waiting for the episode where some guy jumps far enough that he lands in the fire.

[chibidiablo]

br329 said:

evilmasterbetty said:

um...she's a chick...

and it's Muhammed Ali's daughter.

And she can kick 90% of people on this boards ass's

Id suspect more than 90%

[Ratings]

Whether it's rigged or not, It's AMERICAN GLADIATORS!

I'm just glad it's back.

[chibidiablo]

godz said:

grendel432 said:

Somehow, the image of Hulk Hogan in a Lucha mask trying to hit an enziguri makes me chuckle. The man couldn't get a figure four leg lock correctly on Monday Nitro on Ric Flair ... Flair had to tell him how to do it right. I guess Lou Thesz was correct about his wrestling ability on that wrestling documentary narrated by Steve Allen.

So, I take it you've never seen Hulk (as WWF champion) in 1993 vs the Great Muta in Japan where Hogan hit an enziguri just fine.

Godz, why be that guy?

[amaron]

I just read that the Gladiator Toa is the Rock's cousin.

[Erik Majorwitz]

amaron said:

I just read that the Gladiator Toa is the Rock's cousin.

Maybe he drove the limo that ran over Austin...

[T.J. "the Crippler" Stevens]

I don't think it was rigged at all, but definitely heavily edited. It seemed like they had a camera in every single nook and cranny of that building. The way it was filmed made it seem less real, but that's just human perception trying to keep up with technology. One camera doccumentaries seem real, 1,000 camera productions seem fake.

[dorf]

Great show...so happy its back.

A few observations:

Wolf/Old man feud...brilliant. The old guy deserved to be Canadian Destroyed on the Pyramid.

Hogan: "Holy Moli!"

The woman contestant that injured herself during Powerball...the blunt of the force was from a tackle and jogging back to get a ball, which made her get a sprained knee shortly thereafter, can happen. I sprain my ankle sometimes on a routine jog...and it hurts (thankfully my ankle turns before my knee).

The Marine mother was awesome, until she banged her head on that piping while swimming.

The new Eliminator is ridiculously harder than most other incarnations...it has a test of endurance moreso than strength.

Running up the Travellator is tough after going through the water, cargo netting, and the crank handbike.

Didn't like the new Assault...the old one was better.

[Hiroshi Hase]

grendel432 said:

thewarryah said:

I think Hogan will turn into LUCHA HOGAN and start handing out enziguri's if you call his show 'rigged.'

On a lighter note... making fun of chicks that look like men = serious bidness.

Somehow, the image of Hulk Hogan in a Lucha mask trying to hit an enziguri makes me chuckle. The man couldn't get a figure four leg lock correctly on Monday Nitro on Ric Flair ... Flair had to tell him how to do it right. I guess Lou Thesz was correct about his wrestling ability on that wrestling documentary narrated by Steve Allen.

Maybe he was and maybe he wasn't, I mean it's not like the Figure Four is a wrestling move you would use in the amateurs or anything. Hell, when I was playfighting with my friends years ago I used to get it mixed up too.

As for American Gladiators it looks alright, though I wish Two Scoops would make a cameo appearance.

[EvilMasterBetty, Esq.]

dorf said:

Great show...so happy its back.

A few observations:

Wolf/Old man feud...brilliant. The old guy deserved to be Canadian Destroyed on the Pyramid.

Hogan: "Holy Moli!"

The woman contestant that injured herself during Powerball...the blunt of the force was from a tackle and jogging back to get a ball, which made her get a sprained knee shortly thereafter, can happen. I sprain my ankle sometimes on a routine jog...and it hurts (thankfully my ankle turns before my knee).

The Marine mother was awesome, until she banged her head on that piping while swimming.

The new Eliminator is ridiculously harder than most other incarnations...it has a test of endurance moreso than strength.

Running up the Travellator is tough after going through the water, cargo netting, and the crank handbike.

Didn't like the new Assault...the old one was better.

I agree with this.

Anyone who thought that it was rigged because the woman ran out of gas obviously hasn't done a lot of athletics. That course looked much more brutal than any other American Gladiator's course ever. By the point you get to the treadmill, you're legs and arms have to be killing you.

And assault would be better if they just armed the weapons before they got there. they were spending 10 seconds at least to load that cannon. thats way too much time to waste. And the crossbow arrow being separate is just ridiculous. I think it could be saved with a couple minor changes.

[Tea & Crumpets]

dorf said:

Great show...so happy its back.

A few observations:

Wolf/Old man feud...brilliant. The old guy deserved to be Canadian Destroyed on the Pyramid.

Hang on, is this the original, English Wolf on American Gladiators? If so, I'm going to start watching when it airs in the UK. He was awesome back on the Briitsh Gladiators.

[Insomniac]

teaandcrumpets said:

dorf said:

Great show...so happy its back.

A few observations:

Wolf/Old man feud...brilliant. The old guy deserved to be Canadian Destroyed on the Pyramid.

Hang on, is this the original, English Wolf on American Gladiators? If so, I'm going to start watching when it airs in the UK. He was awesome back on the Briitsh Gladiators.

This is the new Wolf:

www.hollywoodyates.com/main.html

Real name Don "Hollywood" Yates, apparently he's been involved with pro wrestling in the past.

[EvilMasterBetty, Esq.]

This guy?

[Insomniac]

And just in case this wasn't mentioned already, Justice's real name is Jesse Smith. He was on one of the Tough Enough shows.

And Gladiator Titan is married to Midajah. Lots of ties to wrestling (no surprise) for the male gladiators.