09May2008
No News Day: Australian “Gladiators”
With the second season of “American Gladiators” on the horizon, I figure it’s time we see how it’s done somewhere else. The Australian version has already had a gladiator ejected from a show. See the incident below:
Looks like Amazon was a poor sport. Let’s hope we don’t have that on American Gladiators.
is the yellow card really necessary could he have just said “Amazon has been disqualified” or something like that.
and William the glads have been poor sport on the old show before, there’s a clip on youtube of Turbo punching someone mid-game during swingshot becuase the guy illegally “fake started”
I’d like to see Hulk and Laila on the current version have a role more like this, sort-of watered-down commentary.
While the game and the DQ were legitimate (let’s be clear on that point), the red card bit was staged- in Australia, the one on one events are done with different Gladiators for each person, and no Gladiator does multiple one on one events for the most part (they might work an event like a Hit and Run or Gauntlet as well as a one on one- but Amazon was done for the night regardless because there was only one event before the Eliminator, and it was one on one). Amazon is the “bad” Gladiator in this version of the show- blaming others when she loses, “arguing” with the referee, not being a good sport, etc.- but all the gameplay is 100% real. She just failed to remember to keep the hands on the rope until the whistle ended the game. The rest was all just a bit of theater.
That was some horrendous acting on the part of the ref and the gladiator though. Super cheesy. But I kind of loved it at the same time.
But what the heck is up with the yellow card/red card thing? Is this soccer?
is the yellow card really necessary
Probably not; but it’s interesting to note that the original UK version had yellow cards, too. (Usually they were handed out to the Wolfman when he was acting like a jackass — probably staged, but (IMO) fun to see nonetheless. ;)) On the original AG, when any of the glads had a bit of a temper, either nothing would happen, or they’d get a stern word or two from Larry Thompson.
Let’s hope we don’t have that on American Gladiators.
So far it’s yet to happen.
Amazons The Best :-P
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