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Posted: 8/17/2023 9:01:08 PM EDT
Netflix has a good documentary on it. Lots of roid rage and contestants getting legitimately hurt. Some of the gladiators were also sent to the hospital.
Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators | Official Trailer | Netflix |
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I met a former gladiator..female... about 10 years ago... she was fucking nuts!!!
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I loved that show. I liked when the contestants had to clime to the top of the "mountain" and the gladiators kept throwing them down.
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Full episodes are on YouTube.
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My mom was a highly in demand professional photographer for 30+ years, like international awards type well respected portrait photographer.
One of the female gladiators was a local and came to have sexy time artful pics taken. Some black and white silhouette type picture. Now mind you my mom used 120mm medium format film with all hassleblad/zeiss lenses. So we are talking high quality film long before digital. Said gladiator orders some giant assed print of her naked ass that is like 40×60 and pays for the custom frame suitable for said print. Chick is making payments on the shit then suddenly stops/flakes. That goddamn print sat around at our office for a few years. Bitch probably did it for her boyfriend/husband only to get a divorce and suddenly decided to not pay her debts. Self absorbed twat. |
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Quoted: My mom was a highly in demand professional photographer for 30+ years, like international awards type well respected portrait photographer. One of the female gladiators was a local and came to have sexy time artful pics taken. Some black and white silhouette type picture. Now mind you my mom used 120mm medium format film with all hassleblad/zeiss lenses. So we are talking high quality film long before digital. Said gladiator orders some giant assed print of her naked ass that is like 40×60 and pays for the custom frame suitable for said print. Chick is making payments on the shit then suddenly stops/flakes. That goddamn print sat around at our office for a few years. Bitch probably did it for her boyfriend/husband only to get a divorce and suddenly decided to not pay her debts. Self absorbed twat. View Quote How much like something like that cost if you have to pay in installments? Sell it now for profit? I saw the netflix doc. Want to see the 30 for 30 on it too. I loved it as a kid. Someone on youtube has to have made a faithful reproduction of the tennis ball cannon by now. |
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Quoted: How much like something like that cost if you have to pay in installments? Sell it now for profit? I saw the netflix doc. Want to see the 30 for 30 on it too. I loved it as a kid. Someone on youtube has to have made a faithful reproduction of the tennis ball cannon by now. View Quote This was way back in the 80s but a giant assed print with custom wood frame(which we also cut in custom frame shop) could still be several 1000. Especially if it was done on canvas which was a trend back then. Not sure if print was before her time on show or during. It eventually disappeared after hounding the idiot for long enough. Business closed in early 2000's but I have memories of seei g that print when I was younger. |
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Really enjoyed this series.
Also found some of the gladiators are quite intelligent and well spoken. Had no idea how much of a Wild West that was in the beginning. Basically playing on concrete floors, minimal padding, no on-site doctor, etc.. |
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Quoted: My mom was a highly in demand professional photographer for 30+ years, like international awards type well respected portrait photographer. One of the female gladiators was a local and came to have sexy time artful pics taken. Some black and white silhouette type picture. Now mind you my mom used 120mm medium format film with all hassleblad/zeiss lenses. So we are talking high quality film long before digital. Said gladiator orders some giant assed print of her naked ass that is like 40×60 and pays for the custom frame suitable for said print. Chick is making payments on the shit then suddenly stops/flakes. That goddamn print sat around at our office for a few years. Bitch probably did it for her boyfriend/husband only to get a divorce and suddenly decided to not pay her debts. Self absorbed twat. View Quote Zap posed nude for playboy. I wouldn't Google "Raye Hollitt Zap nude photos." |
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Quoted: My mom was a highly in demand professional photographer for 30+ years, like international awards type well respected portrait photographer. One of the female gladiators was a local and came to have sexy time artful pics taken. Some black and white silhouette type picture. Now mind you my mom used 120mm medium format film with all hassleblad/zeiss lenses. So we are talking high quality film long before digital. Said gladiator orders some giant assed print of her naked ass that is like 40×60 and pays for the custom frame suitable for said print. Chick is making payments on the shit then suddenly stops/flakes. That goddamn print sat around at our office for a few years. Bitch probably did it for her boyfriend/husband only to get a divorce and suddenly decided to not pay her debts. Self absorbed twat. View Quote In before incels start posting F5 F5 F5 ? |
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Quoted: Pfft! Fake as WWF View Quote Unless its the Horsemen and Dusty Rhodes......they hated that sumbitch for real! |
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saw the documentary. interesting point. it was picked up during a writers strike. no script, so it was something they could put on cable with no scripts. was picked up a second time during a second strike, then dropped with the writers strike ended and they had more 'product'.
i vaguely remember it. prolly didnt watch. i did enjoy wrestling back in the day. knew it was fake but when you had folks like roddy piper, hulk, adre the giant and so forth it was fun to watch. |
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I watched the first season. IIRC it was pretty brutal and the gladiators basically dominated every event for a few episodes, until they had one contestant who was a hard hitting SOB and clobbered a couple of the gladiators pretty good.
It was definitely not "fake". I mean, maybe they set up some of the games to be more difficult/more easy for particular contestants (or rather, types of contestants). But the action was definitely real. |
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Quoted: I watched the first season. IIRC it was pretty brutal and the gladiators basically dominated every event for a few episodes, until they had one contestant who was a hard hitting SOB and clobbered a couple of the gladiators pretty good. It was definitely not "fake". I mean, maybe they set up some of the games to be more difficult/more easy for particular contestants (or rather, types of contestants). But the action was definitely real. View Quote Nitro took a head shot from a contestant playing some ball game and lost consciousness. |
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I know a guy who was a contender on that show.
He isn’t a huge dude so he wasn’t like manhandling the gladiators. Ended up starting that final event with like 10 second deficit. He destroyed the other contender and won the episode lol I loved that show when I was a kid so I was pumped to find out someone I knew was on the show. Talked to him about it quite a bit one day and it all sounds pretty just like I expected. About a year ago the episode he was on finally found it’s way to YouTube. It was one of those military episodes. He was stationed nearby and saw an ad around the base about trying out for the show and went for it. |
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Shame there isn't a place to stream the full series or buy the DVD box set or something. I looked for it recently and came up empty handed.
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I loved that show back in the day! Just finished watching the documentary. Pretty good and I can't say I'm surprised about the dirty laundry they aired about the show.
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Yikes
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Who was the really cute sandy blonde contestant in blue? I can’t seem to find any pictures, but I sure remember her
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Watched the hell out of that when I was a kid. Not surprised to hear they were on steroids.
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The "It's MAAM" event must have been rough. |
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My friends and I used Nerf guns to set up our own "Assault" courses in our houses, using couch pillows as targets for the "contestant." It was glorious.
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I wouldn't Google "Raye Hollitt Zap nude photos View Quote |
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Loved the show as a kid. I thought Malibu was around a lot long than 1 season.
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Quoted: That was the reboot. https://www.mixedmartialarts.com/.image/t_share/MTg3NzUxMjAyOTg0MTA5NDMz/gina-carano-crushes-on-american-gladiators.jpg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Wasn't Gina Carano "Laser" or something like that? That was the reboot. https://www.mixedmartialarts.com/.image/t_share/MTg3NzUxMjAyOTg0MTA5NDMz/gina-carano-crushes-on-american-gladiators.jpg Would snu snu I offer myself as tribute to her |
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Quoted: I watched the first season. IIRC it was pretty brutal and the gladiators basically dominated every event for a few episodes, until they had one contestant who was a hard hitting SOB and clobbered a couple of the gladiators pretty good. It was definitely not "fake". I mean, maybe they set up some of the games to be more difficult/more easy for particular contestants (or rather, types of contestants). But the action was definitely real. View Quote I remember. All the previous contestants had been notably smaller than the gladiators, then they had one big black dude (ex-football player?) who was as big, or bigger than the gladiators. Epic collision! *** Wow... I actually remembered the contestant's name! Craig Williams. |
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Quoted: Netflix has a good documentary on it. Lots of roid rage and contestants getting legitimately hurt. Some of the gladiators were also sent to the hospital. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw38WFM4MCg View Quote They have an official YT channel that puts up clips and even old full episodes. https://www.youtube.com/@AmericanGladiators/videos Season 7 Grand Championship! ?? | American Gladiators | Full Episode | S07E09 |
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Quoted: She was also nude in a movie with John Ritter (of Three's Company). View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Zap posed nude for playboy. I wouldn't Google "Raye Hollitt Zap nude photos." She was also nude in a movie with John Ritter (of Three's Company). |
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Quoted: How much like something like that cost if you have to pay in installments? Sell it now for profit? I saw the netflix doc. Want to see the 30 for 30 on it too. I loved it as a kid. Someone on youtube has to have made a faithful reproduction of the tennis ball cannon by now. View Quote My Secret Warehouse Tour |
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