American Gladiators

I downloaded and watched ep4 of "American Gladiators" yesterday. That was a fun little experiance. It's been a long time since I've seen the original but I think this round of Gladiators are a lot more athletic than the last generation. It seems like the older crew were "bigger", these guys look like they're really good at athletic...everything.

The show itself was surprisingly similar to the original. Kind of neat, not something that I'd go too far out of my way for but it was a fun little thing. Two things that I noticed:

1. The Gladiators were holding back and trying to make everything look really dramatic. They'd get in a position to do "something" and then change up to do something a little more elaborate. "Wolf" was on top of a pyramid and was trying to keep the guy off of it. The thing is he didn't run up and grab him, he'd leap from 20' away and fling him over the edge. One of the female gladiators got was pulling a lady off the a climbing wall and in stead of just grabbing her leg she climbed her and got her in some sort of rear naked monkey lock thing.

2. The contestants are competing for a chance to be a gladiator. There's no way. The gladiators are all 6'+ at around 200lbs lean. The 'big" contestant was 5'10 160. There's no way tiny could stop wolf from climbing the pyramid...none.

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I also watched UFC All Access Randy Couture (sp?). I'll take back my drug allegations. It's not beyond the realm of possibility but he's got all the access to every awesome training thing\people in the world w\ a good attitude and good head.