This guy was an animal too.
I agree with everyone here; the producers really dropped the ball with the male contestants. You know they must’ve turned away some serious contenders to keep some of these choades.
Malibu getting what he deserved.
[quote]mundele wrote:
Malibu getting what he deserved.[/quote]
Everyone should watch that; the slow motion is hilarious
The girl smoked both of the guys tonight. I think her eliminator time was more than a minute faster than both of theirs.
Pathetic.
[quote]mundele wrote:
This guy was an animal too.[/quote]
Now that’s the American Gladiators I remember. That was great. These new contenders wouldn’t stand a chance against somebody like this.
[quote]Bauer97 wrote:
- The female gladiator, Crush, is absolutely stunning. If I watch that show again, she might be the sole reason why.[/quote]
All I know is that she could kick my ass…and in the words of Bart Simpson, that ain’t not bad at all!! Seriously she is fine as a motherfucker. I’d watch just for her.
As for the show lets put it this way, don’t screw with a formula that worked the first time. Get rid of the corny announcer guy and bring somebody like Adamle and csonka who just announced the show straight. Also the Eliminator was too long and they were killing themselves to beat it. Just add a few bells and whistles but don’t try and rebuild the wheel. However, I thought that there was some good to it, but they need to do some refining to the formula.
[quote]blackartsviper wrote:
Bauer97 wrote:
- The female gladiator, Crush, is absolutely stunning. If I watch that show again, she might be the sole reason why.
All I know is that she kick my ass…and that ain’t not bad at all!! Seriously she is fine as a motherfucker. I’d watch just for her.
As for the show lets put it this way, don’t screw with a formula that worked the first time. Get rid of the corny announcer guy and bring somebody like Adamle and csonka who just announced the show straight. Also the Eliminator was too long and they were killing themselves to beat it. Just add a few bells and whistles but don’t try and rebuild the wheel. However, I thought that there was some good to it, but they need to do some refining to the formula.
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They need to get rid of the two things they stole off of Ninja Warrior (the rolling log and arm bicycle), because these cats obviously don’t know how to do them.
[quote]Hook 'em wrote:
They need to get rid of the two things they stole off of Ninja Warrior (the rolling log and arm bicycle), because these cats obviously don’t know how to do them.[/quote]
You’re right about the rolling log, but the armcycle was on the original eliminator so if anything Ninja Warrior stole that from the Gladiators.
[quote]blackartsviper wrote:
Hook 'em wrote:
They need to get rid of the two things they stole off of Ninja Warrior (the rolling log and arm bicycle), because these cats obviously don’t know how to do them.
You’re right about the rolling log, but the armcycle was on the original eliminator so if anything Ninja Warrior stole that from the Gladiators. [/quote]
I just saw that on an old Eliminator challenge and hurried back to this thread to change it before anyone noticed. Too late 
But either the old arm bike was a lot easier, the competitors now aren’t as athletic, the net climb is killing everyone, or a combination of those factors.
I just watched the guys do the eliminator: that was pathetic
[quote]XXman wrote:
I just watched the guys do the eliminator: that was pathetic[/quote]
“Big Country” vs. “Adonis”… my Universe nearly imploded at the horror.
Also, is there anything more utterly pathetic than somebody laying face down, hanging onto the rope for dear life, as the “Travelator” continues to slowly give a friction burn at roughly .003 miles per hour, to the front of their body?
The Eliminator set-up sucks. A couple very easy improvements:
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Put the handbike at the beginning. There’s been what, 1 person that has made it across? Christ. Either get some better contestants, put it when they’re fresher, or put some WD-40 on the thing.
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Put the underwater event near the end. It’s stupid to make the contestants do the whole Eliminator soaking wet (although I do appreciate it with a select few of the females…). Plus, putting it at the end would increase the chances that somebody would jump in there and just sink like a stone, which would be awesome and hilarious.
I just hate how the end of the Eliminator is just a war of attrition now. It used to be a sprint to the finish line, now it’s 2 pathetic specimens laying face down on a moving sidewalk.
[quote]Bauer97 wrote:
XXman wrote:
I just watched the guys do the eliminator: that was pathetic
“Big Country” vs. “Adonis”… my Universe nearly imploded at the horror.
Also, is there anything more utterly pathetic than somebody laying face down, hanging onto the rope for dear life, as the “Travelator” continues to slowly give a friction burn at roughly .003 miles per hour, to the front of their body?
The Eliminator set-up sucks. A couple very easy improvements:
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Put the handbike at the beginning. There’s been what, 1 person that has made it across? Christ. Either get some better contestants, put it when they’re fresher, or put some WD-40 on the thing.
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Put the underwater event near the end. It’s stupid to make the contestants do the whole Eliminator soaking wet (although I do appreciate it with a select few of the females…). Plus, putting it at the end would increase the chances that somebody would jump in there and just sink like a stone, which would be awesome and hilarious.
I just hate how the end of the Eliminator is just a war of attrition now. It used to be a sprint to the finish line, now it’s 2 pathetic specimens laying face down on a moving sidewalk.[/quote]
I think if you saw decent athletes go through it, it would look a lot different. I don’t see any reason why somebody can’t get through that in 1:30, which is still long IMO, as the old one used to take about :45. I don’t think anybody has got up the treadmill on the first try, that is what should be at the beginning, just like it used to be.
As for the hand bike, it is simply a matter of too little upper body strength and poor technique. You have to flex your arms, tuck your knees, and use your legs. Everybody is trying to do it from a dead hang.
[quote]tedro wrote:
I think if you saw decent athletes go through it, it would look a lot different. I don’t see any reason why somebody can’t get through that in 1:30, which is still long IMO, as the old one used to take about :45.
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Of note: In the same radio interview I mentioned earlier in the thread, Titan said he does the Eliminator in 1:37.
If that’s true, at 260, these contestants, weighing as much as 120lbs. less than him (even more for some of the females), are far more pathetic than we’re even citing them for.
[quote]Bauer97 wrote:
tedro wrote:
I think if you saw decent athletes go through it, it would look a lot different. I don’t see any reason why somebody can’t get through that in 1:30, which is still long IMO, as the old one used to take about :45.
Of note: In the same radio interview I mentioned earlier in the thread, Titan said he does the Eliminator in 1:37.
If that’s true, at 260, these contestants, weighing as much as 120lbs. less than him (even more for some of the females), are far more pathetic than we’re even citing them for.[/quote]
The contestants have way more functional strength than those bodybuilders, though.
[quote]Donut62 wrote:
Bauer97 wrote:
tedro wrote:
I think if you saw decent athletes go through it, it would look a lot different. I don’t see any reason why somebody can’t get through that in 1:30, which is still long IMO, as the old one used to take about :45.
Of note: In the same radio interview I mentioned earlier in the thread, Titan said he does the Eliminator in 1:37.
If that’s true, at 260, these contestants, weighing as much as 120lbs. less than him (even more for some of the females), are far more pathetic than we’re even citing them for.
The contestants have way more functional strength than those bodybuilders, though. [/quote]
That’s the point bauer is making. The contestants have less weight to drag around and should have more functional strength, meaning that they should be able to beat any of the gladiators in the Eliminator (except for someone like Crush, who’s an athlete and not a bodybuilder).
[quote]Hook 'em wrote:
Donut62 wrote:
The contestants have way more functional strength than those bodybuilders, though.
That’s the point bauer is making. The contestants have less weight to drag around and should have more functional strength, meaning that they should be able to beat any of the gladiators in the Eliminator (except for someone like Crush, who’s an athlete and not a bodybuilder).
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I’m pretty sure donut was being sarcastic. Those contestants don’t have enough muscle to claim “functional” strength. There are plenty of bodybuilders that are a lot more athletic than they are sometimes given credit for.
[quote]tedro wrote:
I’m pretty sure donut was being sarcastic. Those contestants don’t have enough muscle to claim “functional” strength. There are plenty of bodybuilders that are a lot more athletic than they are sometimes given credit for.
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Yes, I believe Donut is well aware of my loathing for the moronic notion that anyone who has managed to induce an appreciable amount of hypertrophy has somehow lost all athletic ability along with it.
Other breaking news: lifting weights makes you muscle-bound and inflexible, hydrating during exercise is for pussies, and oh yeah, women weaken legs.
If I was a contestant, I would climb a nearby rope quickly, and when the gladiators tried to follow me they would just stand there punching themselves in the face because their biceps and lats forgot how to work together due to all the curling they did to get those guns.
[quote]Bauer97 wrote:
2) Put the underwater event near the end. It’s stupid to make the contestants do the whole Eliminator soaking wet (although I do appreciate it with a select few of the females…). Plus, putting it at the end would increase the chances that somebody would jump in there and just sink like a stone, which would be awesome and hilarious.
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I seriously cannot stop laughing at this.
On the other hand, having them hold their breath for a whole ten seconds while swimming underwater is going to gas these superhumans pretty bad before they even have the harder shit to do.