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I’ve been watching the NBC promos for American Gladiators for the last month or so with a pained expression on my face. They were doing everything in their power to crush my childhood memories of watching this show every Saturday morning. The only reason I decided to tune in after watching football was to confirm my suspicions that all hope was lost.

After viewing back to back episodes I must say, it actually wasn’t too bad. I’ll run down what I consider to be the pros and the cons of the season premiere.

Pros
- Pretty exciting action, the eliminator obstacle course is brutal. The women were so exhausted by the end they looked like they needed medical attention.
- There was an injury within the first 10 minutes of the first episode. Then a woman smashed her forehead at the end of episode two, Americans love the sight of blood.
- Hellga (pictured here). She looks like she could tear up a bucket of fried chicken.
- Laila Ali …. LAILA ALI!!! Shes purty.. plus when one of the contestants got water on her she was about to unleash her inner Shaniqua. She threatened him in the nicest way possible.
- One of the female contestants had major camel toe.

Cons
- It’s extremely overproduced, too many bells whistles, and forced crowd participation.
- The Wolf howl. They practically beat us over the head with it all night. Okay, he’s hairy like a wolf, he doesn’t have to scream like an idiot every 10 seconds.
- I cringed when they made the pacific islander guy start chanting in his native language. I bet you that wasn’t his idea originally.
- Hulk Hogan needs to take it down about 2 notches before he has a heart attack.
- How are you gonna base a show around people with godlike physiques and have a fat ass referee? He looks like he went to audition for “The Biggest Loser” and wandered onto the wrong casting call.