Grab your Powerball and pugil sticks because American Gladiators is back!
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Prime Video is bringing the athletic competition series back to television. For those not familiar with the show, it pitted a cast of amateur athletes against professional bodybuilders, or "gladiators," in a series of games that tested the competitors' strength and agility.
Some of the games included Breakthrough & Conquer, where one athlete tries to break through a defender's attempt to tackle them and then wrestles the Gladiator to the ground in a different zone, and Joust, which has contestants facing a Gladiator while standing on platforms and attempting to knock each other off using padded pugil sticks.
Will This Version of "American Gladiators" Be Different Than the Original?
This time around, American Gladiators will be hosted by WWE star Mike "The Miz" Mizanin and Rocsi Diaz. According to the updated version's logline, it doesn't seem much is changing.
It reads, "Each episode of the fan-favorite competition features amateur male and female Contenders from across the nation stepping into the Arena to face 16 powerful new American Gladiators. From classic events like Joust, Powerball, Hang Tough, and The Wall, to high-impact new events including The Ring and Collision, every showdown demands strength, strategy, and pure grit. Only one man and one woman will conquer the Arena, claim $100,000, and earn the title of American Gladiator Champion."
Who Will Be On the New Show?
There will be some familiar faces appearing on the American Gladiators reboot.
On the female side, the Gladiators include fitness coach Abigail Lay, bodybuilder Dani Means, Titan Games winner Dani Speegle, NCAA athlete Emily Nelson, wrestler Jessica Roden, AEW star Kailey "Kamille" Latimer, bodybuilder Lu Faustin, and powerlifter Sydney Hunter.
The male Gladiators include fitness coach Ayinde Warren, Drew Aggouras, former WWE star Eric Bugenhagen, former college football star Faysal Shafaat, athlete Jason Peele, former TNA World Tag Team Champion Jessie Gooderz, former football player Joseph Hall, and AEW wrestler Michael Wardlow.
When Does "American Gladiators" Premiere?
The first three episodes premiere on Friday, April 17. Three more streams on Friday, April 24. The final four debut May 1. All episodes will be on Prime Video.
