American Gladiators

I remember the MAD TV parody pretty clearly:

Which one was Turbo?

Lazer was openly gay, just FYI.

I used to love this show and would watch it with my Grandmother all the time lol

They tried reviving it years later on The CW I believe but it flopped.

Loved it.

Little wonder if those were the girls you were looking at.

I've seen female truck drivers who were more feminine.

Who's the stud in the middle in the back row?

That's Turbo, R8.

I liked Nitro best. Looked multiracial and sort of pretty boy. Also liked Laser. Hate to admit this but as a lark a friend and I went to the American Gladiators tour around 1991 in Madison Square Garden. We stayed about an hour. Too many attendees were taking it seriously.

Anyone had any of them?

I dont think laser is gay.

OMG I had completely forgotten about this show until now. I'd see re-runs on late night tv at my grandparents and get akward teenage boners.

R3 If Laser was openly gay, then he's gone back into the closet and married a woman and had kids.

Nitro looked like he knew how to take a cock.

I'm a Canadian and was a fan of the American Gladiators show and I was attracted to Malibu. Still remember his name after all these years.

More Malibu - in another role.

I was - it looks like the new series Titan is a knock off.

This show was my jam! USA network would play it at 9 and 10am in the summers when I was a kid and I would watch both episodes 5 days a week. Loved it. Laser was my favorite but Gemini was cool as well. I thought Nitro was good looking- but such a jerk. Turbo was gorgeous. Tower and Viper weren't bad looking. Thunder reminded me of a Clydesdale.

As for the women- Ice, Zap, and Blaze were my favs. I remember Diamond had massive boobs, but was ugly.

Anyone remember the episode where Turbo attacked a contestant (kyler Storm I think was his name) during Swingshot? The Ref Larry Thompson had to yell at him. Definite road rage going on then.

And I think contestant Wesley 'two scoops' berry murdered someone.

USA once scheduled [italic]The Facts of Life[/italic] right after it.

R19 I remember those reruns on USA as a kid too.

[quote]Anyone remember the episode where Turbo attacked a contestant (kyler Storm I think was his name) during Swingshot?

He punched the guy in the face for cheating during the competition.

My favorite episode- Joseph Bam Bam Mauro vs. Mark Ortega. What a finish!

R14 He wasn't back then either. He was married to female porn star Candie Evans also when the show was on and for a little afterwards. Two of the three kids he has was with her, I think. The Tonya woman mentioned in the article is his second wife.

Why do these people marry porn stars? It will never last.

LOL I would have beat Turbos ass

The events I wanted to compete in: Assault, Power Ball, Joust, Swingshot, and Breakthrough and Conquer. Maybe Hang Tough, the Wall, or the Pyramid.

Definitely not Sky Track or Whiplash. Atlasphere seemed like fun (hamster cages!) but was probably very difficult to get them to stay in the pods when you were trying to get points.

[quote]Which one was Turbo?

Turbo was the hot one in the OP pic in the back row center. He looked like a porn star and was briefly married to one I believe. SO hot. He suffered a cringe-inducing on-air knee injury during season three and was replaced briefly by Tower, but he came back in season four and both he and Tower were billed as TNT or something. He apparently never liked the celeb thing and preferred a quiet life. His niece is olympic volleyball player Carli Lloyd, who he coached when she was in high school. He’s still hot, too.

Turbo kind of looks like Reb Brown in the face. He was huge and jacked up on steroids in season 2 (his debut season) and got progressively smaller as the years went on. I guess he cut out the heavy juicing. Here he is with his niece when she was a kid.

I remember recording many episodes on VHS and pausing the tape during all the women’s events.

In 2008 the rebooted the series but it didn't last long, sadly.

NBC did it

Actor Billy Wirth scrapping with Gemini

Malibu (Deron Michael McBee) was a Chippendale at one point. I have his cinematic opus, Time Barbarians.:) Gorgeous man.

Knew I was gay when...

Malibu's persona- Babes and Waves!

Such an airhead character but so hot.

I will never be able to think of Gladiator without thinking of this (I know, not the same thing)

Gemini aka Michael Horton was HOT!

Even back then Billy Wirth was hot as hell !

I can't remember if Billy won his season or not, but I remember he was in the finals xD!

Storm was my favorite female. I always felt bad for Lace . She would get man handled by contestants a lot. I liked Zap's name and persona :D!

Also ! when I was a kid I thought Dean Cain was Nitro's twin (fraternal) brother . I got the 2 confused a lot as a kid. I wonder why the 2 never tried to do a movie together.

I knew Nitro, He was pretty friendly with gay fans but was very much into women. HIs real name is Dan.

You can see them together at about 1:54 here. They look a bit alike.

I loved how Zap would handle to pugil stick in joust. She'd put both hands on one end of the stick and just swing it around will all her might. It was pretty effective

I remember this, when Laser went against that hot fucking fine piece of Midwestern cornfed ass and lost and he couldn't handle losing. LMAO he then wanted a rematch and the hottie contestant agreed to it and Laser broke the stick over his head

Malibu -

R27 here's the video of when Turbo hyperextended his knee. But what always caught my attention was what Laser was doing at around 1:51? Trying to finger him to relieve the knee pain? Very strange...

Jay or Jake Ullery posed nude for Advocate Men and did a JO video.

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Does anyone remember the short lived series WMAC Masters? My cousin used to love that

I'll bet the clitoris on this one is 8x6" when "she" gets a hard-on.

R44 What does one have to do to receive the ‘Hungriest Butt Award’?

Here’s some Malibu for you. I wish I could buy a pair of shades like that!

Malibu is not hot... y'all seem thirsty

"Turbo"

Thx, R9. Yum.

Laser was soooooo hot, but obviously on roids during seasons 2-4. He wore the most revealing costumes and they occasionally would show him shirtless. Loved his sexy voice too. Dan Clark (nitro) and his roommate at the time Laser made a gay wrestling video for BG East before they hit it big on AG. They didnt show much, but they also appeared together in various episodes of first and ten on hbo as extras. Wouldn’t surprise me if they were bisexual, especially Nitro. He admitted doing steroids and also said he all the gladiators were having sex all the time with each other and groupies. Though ZAp said most of the females were lesbian she said none of the men were gay. Nitro’s face changed a lot during the show - looks kind of beat up.

I’ve read Dan Clark’s autobio which was a good read. He mentioned almost sleeping with a woman who turned out to be transgendered.

Steve Henneberry (Tower) had major wife issues. His ex wife accused him of raping her during their marriage and also of stalking her.

Tower of Power

Galen Tomlinson (Turbo) was huge during his first season

Laser is full MAGA. His abandoned Twitter bitched about Obamacare and illegals, but still follows all the Trumps.

Galen started to trim down over the years

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I caught this a few times as a little kid in the early 90s and I knew then exactly what I was watching for.

Storm (the black female gladiator in front of Turbo in OP) was later homeless

RIP Shelly Beattie (Siren), the first and only deaf gladiator. She was a great athlete.

I remember when Sabre and Turbo were on an episode of Family Matters

That's so disappointing r56. Laser was my favorite. And now I know he's a Trumpkin.

I used to think host Mike Adamle was hot too

Viper was a prick but he was hot too. Back at. 2014, he was accused of barreling into a woman jogging through Central Park with his bicycle.

R.I.P. Siren

R44 Chad Ullery was actually on Battle Dome as a character named "DOA;" he wasn't on American Gladiators.

He was most recently featured in a Toby Keith video. He's gotten larger, but there's a glimpse of his body in the video, and it's still pretty good, despite the fact it's covered in gawdawful tats.

I had major sexual fantasies about Nitro in the day.

Not so much anymore though! Nitro seems to have had multiple health problems. Possibly roids related?

^In his autobio, he talked about how doing steroids made him pee blood.

I own the soundtrack and I’m not ashamed

Adamle is currently suffering from CTE and dementia...

RIP Hawk (Lee Reherman)

[quote][R44] Chad Ullery was actually on Battle Dome as a character named "DOA;" he wasn't on American Gladiators.

Yes, I never said he was on AG. I quoted that he was on Battle Dome.

[quote]he is best known for his role as Killer Karl in House of 1000 Corpses and playing D.O.A. on the sports entertainment program "Battle Dome."

I was correcting r43 who had seemingly mistaken Battle Dome and AG, as well as the name.

[quote]Jay or Jake Ullery posed nude for Advocate Men and did a JO video.

There was a thread here a long time back about d-list celebs people have slept with. Someone posted that they had a semi regular relationship with a winner of American Gladiators and said he was hung like a mule but was married. I could never figure out who it was but I think he said he lived in Arizona.

Co-host Zonk was a big slab of hunky man meat

R67 What a tragic end for Siren.

I remember there was a cheesy lip synching show on MTV in the 90s where people competed to win a prize for the best lip synching performance. I remember one episode that featured Turbo as a judge, and there was a lip synching boy band. At the end of their number, one of the boys stepped off stage and handed Turbo a rose. Turbo looked like he wanted to take that little twink over his shoulder and have his way with him.

^What show was that???

I half remember that as well. I think the show was called Lip Service - was mid 90's I think. Right around the time of The CUT with Lisa Left Eye Lopez which gave us Anastacia.

R81 Yes, I think it was called "Lip Service." It wasn't "The Cut."

I don’t remember Turbo judging on Lip Service but I would’ve paid to see him give a twink that look.

Didn’t Turbo tell an interviewer he was bi in the 90s? Like Arsenio maybe?

“We were together in close quarters," says Lee (Hawk) Reherman. "When you're sharing clothes, food and workout routines, who's to say you're not going to share a bodily fluid or two?"

Right....

In the early 1990s, I met many of the Gladiators at a corporate event in Dallas. I got Laser’s autograph! I jokingly asked him to write something about how I beat him on “Hang Tough.” He scribbled something. I walked away and read it: “See on Hang Tough. Laser.” Well, the thought was nice...

Laser vs Nitro

They should just have called this show, "Hey Gays and fraus! Time to masturbate!"

Malibu is a god.

I'll take him and Lazer, please. Fuck, all those guys are hot!

Looks like Time Barbarians is free with Amazon Prime.

I'm giving Malibu's titties a workout today!

Enjoy! I had a lot of fun watching Time Barbarians--you get a love scene from Derron and lots of posing:)

Priceless! Malibu stripping for Peg Bundy:)

TIME BARBARIANS is a pretty blatant ripoff of YOR: THE HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE starring Reb Brown.

R95 Reb Brown as sexy Yor.

Reb and Galen (Turbo) look like.

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I'm not surprised Lazer turned out to be a Trumper, he was an angry asshole during the show and was said to enjoy trying to hurt contestants that outperformed him on the show.

I remember Diamond and Blaze. Those chicks looked like they could cut a bitch...

Did Malibu get hit with a gorilla stick? That face is monkey like.

I remember that, R30. It's too bad it didn't last long. It was pretty good.

Seth Rogan apparently wants to reboot American Gladiators a second time.

Seth Rogen will do whatever he can to see muscle studs in tight clothing.

Reb Brown was gorgeous

I was going to mention that Malibu was on "Married With Children" but someone upthread beat me to it..

He was/is a born again Christian after he left AG.

He appeared on "The 700 Club" with Pat Robertson & looked slimmed down from his AG days. I almost wouldn't have recognized him.

My guess is that he probably ended up a Trumpster.

Malibu's T-FORCE was just a cheap ripoff of UNIVERSAL SOLDIER, too!

Did these guys have any originality in their movie careers?