American Gladiators BOB: Turbo punches Kyler

[@0tto9]

You can't punch people. That's usually a rule.

[@werewolflover8636]

LOL you never watched this show I see!

[@RetroMaticGamer]

@@werewolflover8636 I never missed an episode, and no, nobody was allowed to punch ANYONE. Good sportsmanship was always emphasized and expected, and whenever someone got violent, they were penalized accordingly.

[@detmstr341]

@@werewolflover8636 I've watched every episode on Saturday's and Larry Thompson, the head referee has never allowed any fighting.

[@jackburton7062]

It a bold strategy Cotton.

[@aubreylionswings8889]

We are awarding you 6 points for getting punched in the face.

[@marcelmoreau2733]

If only hockey had that rule.....

[@eman85mph]

🤣🤣🤣

[@frshtrds]

Literally laughing out loud

[@MikeJones-jh5ih]

A simpler time...

[@jimjones3286]

I miss the 80s.

[@jabroni5249]

Man I miss these times. Saturday night at 12:00. Aww..the memories.

[@tyvulpintaur2732]

Dallas Cowboys fan 1980 where I was living, it came on at noon on Saturdays.

[@danm2084]

Jesus, midnight? The fuck. This was like a kids show. I always remember it was on during the day growing up, but maybe that was reruns. Idk.

[@R33Bandit]

Saturday night at 00:00. 12:00 is noon.

[@CheapJabroni]

Actually it was Saturday mornings

[@CheapJabroni]

Austin Jon I’m from the USA. You probably saw it on re runs

[@northerngirl13]

Ego and steroids are never a good combination.

[@xjuhox]

It's roid rage, brothers!

[@mattdavis8573]

Fuck you brother. Tits look like first baseman mitts.

[@BAGofTALENT]

Never challenge a man named turbo . Life lesson learned

[@Sirrazorbladez]

@@Sheikbaby LMAO that's great

[@younglobwedge]

God damn it Hulkster, you beat me to it.

[@peterjanjanin9883]

Hulk knows best

[@Andarovin]

The most 90's interview of all time.

[@Transfixed]

A man named Turbo punches a man named Kyler Storm while swinging from bungee cords. I see what you mean.

[@stephaniehergert3278]

In Turbo's case it's a stage name, but Kyler also mentioned that that is not his given name either.

[@TZanatta]

Faking or not, the punching isn't necessary.

[@3ngag3]

Dirty move by Turbo, but in the end, Kyler won this little feud in the very next event.

[@trylbear9625]

That's right, Kyler got his revenge on Turbo. "By Not getting touched"! ✊🏾🐻

[@Deined]

​@@trylbear9625I thought Kyler did the backflip before this?

[@trylbear9625]

@@Deined In an episode on his first year, I believe he did a back flip, yes.

[@calibuzz_]

​@Deined you're right it happened before this event

[@detmstr341]

When Turbo said there must be more, he knew he was in trouble for punching Kyler Storm.

[@RetroMaticGamer]

He was setting an example, making sure all the kids at home learned the valuable lesson of owning your mistakes and facing the consequences.

[@josephd.2725]

@@RetroMaticGamer And not letting roid rage get the better of you! LMAO

[@Mrd9960]

How he wasn't disqualified from the whole episode I don't know, he should have been.

[@detmstr341]

@@Mrd9960 That's a little much/ Larry Thompson did hold Turbo accountable, and disqualified him from the event. I think Turbo got the message.

[@Mrd9960]

@@detmstr341 Well if someone punched you in the face, wouldn't you say the same thing? I would

[@campbell4show]

No fakey fakey, no punchy punchy.

[@bigmikeystyle]

"i'm not sure what set turbo off..." probably the roid rage?

[@hendowest3553]

bigmikeystyle kyler was cheating but didn't realize it and turbo just got frustrated

[@daves3108]

Pretty small guy if you think he's running gear

[@miket7545]

@@daves3108 6'1 250lbs is small ?

[@synthonaplinth5980]

@@daves3108 Nitro admitted that both he and Turbo were running gear.

[@selinaogorman8380]

Well turbo handle it differently as we saw Kyler was breaking the rules and getting away with it so turbo went about it the wrong way and should have told the referee violence is never the answer but happy it never got out of control.

[@deepmelody1991]

Man, Turbo really changed in the last couple of seasons! He turned into this battle-scarred, ill-tempered serious person!

[@josephd.2725]

Roid rage. He was losing his temper at the drop of a hat these days! LOL

[@VivaciousVirgO]

Nitro did, too. He also hit a contestant! He actually made me sick of seeing him during his last two years.

[@DCP672]

Didn’t Turbo and Nitro have a go, and, Nitro still bares the scar from that interaction?

[@buffcosby1038]

​@@DCP672lol How did you know about that? Just found this out on the Netflix doc

[@MaredOwen163]

At least turbo had the guts to apologise and admit his faults Same goes for the contender so both was in the wrong but both apologised and made up and that’s good

[@chatlos]

I used to watch AG when I was younger and now that it has come back I've started watching it again.

[@eddiemil88]

lmao i don't remember American Gladiators being so damn serious! lol

[@Disciple8923]

As the series became more garnered to families, they had to

[@tnelliott2447]

I remember watching this back in the day Kyler was beasting all these fools And the butt hurt gladiators cried foul

[@tinocontreras5105]

There was another guy, Billy wirth. He was also in the Lost boys. He was owning the gladiators in every competition. Then they all ganged up on him so he wouldn't win. He even got into it with one of the gladiators.

[@tnelliott2447]

Tino Contreras yes Some of the gladiators got pissy when they were losing for sure

[@tinocontreras5105]

Hell yeah, especially the big black guy. Forget his name since it was in the 80's. He was a big dude but they all were. The smaller guys use to run them stupid and they would get pissed

[@justinhillenburg9286]

@@tinocontreras5105 Titan

[@Mrd9960]

@@tinocontreras5105 Only big black guy on the Gladiators I know of is Gemini, but he was always cool and mild mannered, only one time he got into a fight with a contender and that was only because the guy threw something at him, in frustration for losing, so I don't blame Gemini, if someone throws something at me, I'd get upset also.

[@BlackwoodCompany]

I was not sure what set Turbo off at first, but still I agree with Mike on the fact that punch was completely uncalled for. Then to hear the ruling at first for Kyler. He was faking his jumps for you could hear Larry screaming for Kyler to go. When you get back on the platform and at the start, you have to go immediately. That was why I know for sure he would lose all 12 points he earned. But then to hear he would get half of them back for that punch. At least the referee was fair on both sides.

[@patrickmoylan5983]

Kyler did not break a rule . Turbo made it up because he was getting destroyed. The other gladiators hated Turbo and thought he was a cancer for the show.

[@Will-h7h]

Lol the ref didn’t just make up the rule to defend turbo

[@ddcs0s]

I can't remember I think it was Kyler Storm who at one point did a flip over Turbo ... Dude had Turbos number and Turbo let his ego get the best of him

[@rustleup-tf2jt]

I remember this as a kid, but hey, that was the era we lived in!

[@HotRoute7]

Yep! And now we live in a CandyLand circus

[@HellhammerSS]

Street Fighter Turbo

[@deepmelody1991]

While my memory is sketchy since it's been way more than a year since I saw AG reruns on a daily basis, I'm pretty sure he still smiled from time to time. Never did I see him smile the same way in the final season(s). A smirk was probably the best he could do.

[@josephd.2725]

He certainly smiled when Kyler Storm owned his ass and somersaulted over him in Breakthrough! 🤣

[@WHat-j4b]

@@josephd.2725 Found Kyler Storm or friend of? (Nott Murican, have never seen this show).

[@7Ghoste]

In the end, two stand up guys right there.

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

You know Turbo's going to be an all-American athlete when he looks like Al Bundy's jock son!!!!

[@KingThomas150]

Of all the gladiators, turbo was my least favorite only because of his rage. I remember when he shoved another contestant in the face after whistle and the other gladiators had to hold turbo back.

[@JeanCarlosArtist]

KingThomas150 gerbil shoved what into what???

[@jimmyboyzable]

If I'm not mistaken, I believe what you're referring to is the Powerball game and Turbo had smacked the guy in the back of the head and shoved him and then charged towards him. But Yeah, Turbo always had been hot tempered and a loose cannon

[@davidgoodliff7168]

Sabre was very bad tempered as well. He had a heavy barbel set up and liked to win both matches then lift the weight straight after in the changing room on camera to boast about beating two grown men then lifting this weight. Anyway, one day a contender beat him and spoiled his showpiece so he demanded a rematch but because the contestant would have to expend energy for no further reward he refused so Lynn (Sabre) shoved him. Shocking. He would have never worked again on the British version but of course in the American version they did nothing. I know we had Wolf doing "pantomime" but this was bad temper because he just saw the contenders as bridesmaids for him.

[@blakfloyd]

@@jimmyboyzable yeah. I used to dislike Nitro the most but after binge watching a shitload of AG this past week I was really able to see the difference in behavioral patterns between Nitro and Turbo. Both overreacted way more than any other gladiators in the heat of battle but Nitro was noticeably quicker to let shit go after the whistle whereas Turbo not only went into events with a chip on his shoulder but also carried grudges past the whistle a hell of a lot more times than Nitro ever did.

[@timothyburns2768]

Some of the Gladiators were jerks. British version British Gladiator threw the contestant down the mountain after the game.

[@eins2001]

Glad to see that both men owned up to their mistakes.

[@MMAFAN3333]

Agree

[@MadTrax572]

they both accepted responsibility for their actions n took their penalties like men, I like the outcome

[@FyourIocals]

I remember this and every episode some how lol. This was funny

[@gintaraselmonas]

Amazing show! Maybe somebody know where I can find full episodes? :)

[@shaunng69]

Wesley "2 scoops" Berry. For some reason I remember that after all these years

[@theophilus7558]

😢

[@theophilus7558]

😊o89 I I'll I 0

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

That was great how the referee made them both happy. :D

[@aceous99]

best show evar

[@deepmelody1991]

When I first saw this version of Turbo I was shocked that it was the same guy! Took me a while to realize it was him alright. While Turbo looked awesome with his long hear from his first appearance, I gotta agree with ya, he did look better pre-accident days.

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

I thought he looked cooler with long hair, too!!!!!

[@engleberthumperdink3522]

If I punched somebody on camera I would be arrested, booked, and have to see a judge. Why not Turbo? Smh. Also In a game even if someone breaks the rules it's still a game. Turbo was filled with Roids and was a disgrace to the gladiators. Even his excuse was pathetic. " We play by certain rules here" after PUNCHING SOMEONE IN THE FACE!

[@Mrd9960]

I remember that Wesley, two scoops Berry, damn he was good! Probably the best contestant ever on American Gladiators.

[@mattm7798]

True. Only contestant I remember by name(except rico constantino, but only because of wwe...i had no idea he was on AG)

[@BruteStrength99]

I remember a lot more than that. Billy Wirth, Wendy Brown, Bridget Ventori, Brian Hudson, Craig Williams, JC Love Jordan, Eldon Kid, Lucian Anderson, Richard Seymour, Lincoln Simon, Tim Goldrick, Mark Ortega, Zap and Tony Dorsett. Those are all the contender I remember.

[@mrtrin]

Didn’t 2Scoops end up being an international gladiator or something?

[@fandude41]

@@mrtrin He got arrested for robbery; but he was on the UK version.

[@synthonaplinth5980]

Disagree. Craig Williams was running over them all (including Gemini). Even Malibu wanted nothing to do with him.

[@bzsbzs350]

So, he had 12 points that were removed for faking a jump. He received 6 points back for being aggressively punched in his face. Faking a jump is twice as bad as a face punch, got it. Great rules!!!

[@artc1980]

That Roid Rage kicked in cause Kyler was kicking butt...

[@detmstr480]

I wish this was out on dvd. I know about the beginning, but, I mean other seasons as well.

[@jimmyboyzable]

I can recall another incident, after the Powerball game (w/ Hawk & Sabre) where a contender accidentally bumped into Turbo and he responded by smacking him in the back of the head and shoving him, promoting the stage crew to intervene. Turbo always had been hot tempered and ready to brutally fight someone...

[@KenMabie]

you got a link to that footage i would like to see it

[@Papagiorgio153]

Lmao "brutally fight someone"

[@sparkysjoint1616]

Turbo is a little bitch.

[@Will-h7h]

Turbo hit an NFL guy as well in a celeb special lol

[@tehnatureboy]

Allow me the pleasure of introducing to you: Blade....Laser....Blazer. I believe you've met my fitness consiglieri Meshell. Oh, and I almost forgot, our last player. Meet Fran Stellinaskavich de Bediviski. In her home country of Romanovia, Dodgeball is the national sport, and her nuclear power plant's team won the championship 5 years running, which makes her the deadliest woman on earth, with a dodgeball.

[@crazyman7671]

They got guys named Blazer Taser and all kinds of Azers

[@Balithazzarr]

Exactly

[@ricksorkin2522]

🤣🤣🤣 dodge ball

[@amyb5625]

While yes, Turbo would often lose his temper and fight, he usually had a reason (usually if he felt the contender was not playing fairly) and when he realized he was wrong, he would apologize. He would also congratulate contenders that just outright beat him. That says something about his personal character and is part of the reason he was known as "The Man".

[@jessewahwah]

As a MASSIVE wrestling fan growing up I always wanted to see some WWF guys on this show.

[@josephd.2725]

As gladiators I'm hoping.. lol

[@Doctor-Stoppage]

Roids vs Roids in the Ultimate Roid battle! They could have called it "The Roidal Rumble!" 💪😎👍

[@TheFailedmessiah]

There was a show like this where WCW guys invaded, I forgot but a young Terry crew was involved in it.

[@amadislugo5334]

@@TheFailedmessiah The Battledome. Terry Crews was actually T-Money. A hell of a show.

[@StillycoBra5150]

If I'm thinking of the same show I remember a lot of knee injuries happening

[@redgringrumboldt8983]

He knew that shit hurt! Turbo messed him up with that one! Would've loved to see what he looked like after the hours passed. His face probably swelled up like a basketball! LOL!

[@firebirdude2]

Turbo: "Yeah tempers got heated and I lashed out, but we have rules and he broke them so I'd do it again. No apologies."

[@bigpun4780]

I'll bet he's fun at parties😂

[@tokesalot42069]

That was surprisingly respectful by both guys.

[@tazz765]

Well he did last the rest of the Season. We'll never know if Turbo would have been invited back because this was the last season of AG.

[@kentbeitel9966]

Some of these challenges looked so fun

[@TahitiSkeez]

what blast from the past, people acted so much more respectful and understanding back then.

[@worldofbong]

"I'll tell you one thing, Turbo punched Tyler Storm right in the face!"

[@foxmccloud7055]

That punch in UK Gladiators would have earned Turbo a Red Card 🟥 for throwing a punch and Turbo would have been sent off by Referee John Anderson for that.

[@ColeTague]

Are we just gonna ignore the fact that there was a cartoon called Stripperella?

[@LastbutNotFirst]

that was pam andersons cartoon

[@artvandelay8767]

Created by Stan Lee.

[@gobotjones]

"Disney's Marvel's Stan Lee's Stripperella" FAll 2020

[@davidmurphy1207]

Ahh back when you could have satirical comedy about women and a bunch of hypersensitive crybabies wouldn't get all butthurt and start some social media crusade because they completely miss the point by taking everything waaaaaay to seriously since they don't know how to lighten the fuck up. You know minus the stripper that sued because Stan the man ripped the idea off from her during a lapdance. lol not even joking, look it up.

[@redgringrumboldt8983]

Hawk was never a jerk. He was usually the good guy in most of the situations. I remember in Season 6, he and Nitro had finished a game of Pyramid, and Nitro started talking trash about the Contenders and was trying to get Hawk to agree. Hawk didn't say anything bad. He actually told Nitro that he was the good guy. Now Viper, he was my little buddy, but he sure was a massive jerk.

[@skippythealien9627]

i heard Hawk passed away several years ago. RIP

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

I miss Hawk. :(

[@thegob1in]

Great tv show 👍 good times to be a kid

[@bateybmx]

wes berry was great on international gladiators in england

[@alvideos2145]

High school bullies grew up and became american gladiators.

[@zachcouch8654]

There is a lot of respect to everyone here.

[@ChewyToeNails]

I've a couple bosses like that... Nothing says I love my job like not knowing unspoken "rules", then being attacked by a narsassistic road raging boss....

[@WackJallis]

He punched him because he broke the rules. So atleast he had a reason even if it wasnt a good one. They were both pretty mature about it.

[@daniell7091]

Gotta expect some rood rage here and there

[@epicness1]

Handled it like men. How refreshing was that...

[@spookeddudedevito]

wtf is up with all these comments on this? I think most of them are turbo and dude

[@younglobwedge]

I'm sure those 6 American Gladiator points averted a lawsuit

[@Dman3827]

Do you have more shows taped from the new TNN? I regret throwing out my tapes. They played movies and a lot of great shows. I liked the ads too.

[@prophetvsprofit]

His name is Jeff Harvey

[@Ryan_Winter]

I just wonder what the show's producers were thinking in that moment. Had it been my job to decide, you wouldn't have seen "Turbo" ever again. Would have made an example of him.

[@Habsforthewin]

In reality, the producers probably loved every moment of it. That moment brought in great ratings and really got a lot of people talking about American gladiators at the time

[@tinocontreras5105]

And took his roids away? Lol, dude seems like an asshole anyway

[@marcpower4167]

I might have said this already. Had it been my call, I would have stopped the clock immediately stopped tape, have the medics make sure Kyler's okay. After that, the game continues with 22 seconds left, Turbo is removed from the game. If he wanted to come out after address the situation and apologize like he did. Fine. Larry Thompson's ruling was fair IMO. So I'll stick with that. Turbo gets a stern talking to and warned if anything like that happens again, he's off the show.

[@Kiwitakimago]

I remember one event where the player has to dunk a ball in the center tube while gladiators try to tackle them and one of the players leg snapped in half!

[@fathomflaw]

Turbo was the wrong gladiator to be faking out with.

[@michaelsmiley15]

There's one thing people of this show seem to forget about There's a video of Malibu he really tells it like it was 1st of all they were not protecting themselves properly all of them were taking performance enhancers which affected their moods Turbo especially This was one of the very few times that these guys Turbo especially got out of hand had it been like a regular sport he would have been fired instantaneous Nevertheless this kind of conduct is unacceptable he should have never done that

[@davidrynberk1533]

All those drugs affected their brain..very aggressive

[@pniner]

"Overhand right?" Turbo hit him with his left hand.

[@patrickmoylan5983]

In real life Turbo would have gotten stomped.

[@njjo1]

Where's my clip of Stripperella?

[@RageDaug]

American Gladiators taught me that a punch to the face is worth 6 points.

[@timothyburns2768]

Turbo was a hothead. He went after Charles White and I think some other contestants also.

[@user-ny7tc2vl5f]

Wow that was an amazing over hand right....how he did it with his LEFT arm is anybody's guess.

[@josephd.2725]

I know Kyler was a tricky contender, but Turbo, come on, this was one incident of many where he was suffering from roid rage! LOL

[@MikeJones-jh5ih]

Mistakes happen and he apologized. Just let us enjoy the finished product without tearing down our idols.

[@josephd.2725]

@@MikeJones-jh5ih I did love it when Kyler Storm owned Turbo and somersaulted over him in Breakthrough, though! That was BAD ASS!! Even Turbo was bowing to him.. lol

[@JTrip20]

Real tough guy with his ear rings lolol

[@amyb5625]

Guys wearing earrings was a thing back then. It wasn't considered a "gay" thing back then. Many guys did it.

[@RemingtonMiles-sr9uf]

The show now comes on the Viceland channel Tuesdays mornings.

[@aquarianbabe]

yeah, he got owned and I think he was making up for the fact that he got his balls and pride handed to him on a tray. He was EMBARASSED!!!

[@ryanthomas8955]

2 scoops

[@jamethong8005]

At least Wesley was following the rules on Swingshot even tough he jumped immediately in one of his jumps while Laser was struggling to get back to his platform.

[@drewconway7135]

Did they really not brief the contestants on the rules? I feel like this isn’t the only time something like this happened, where a contestant unwittingly broke the rules and a gladiator got pissed.

[@Mrd9960]

Turbo was completely at fault, you cant punch someone in the face, to make a point, what he should have done was the grown up thing and told the ref and he would have looked at the tape and it would have been alot better.

[@lojosol]

+Donny Mckinnon the problem was Larry thompson was no John Anderson, meaning that when infractions occur by contenders Larry rarely did anything such as issue penalties or whatnot. Turbo was at his wits end and unfortunately Kyler was the person who had last committed an infraction of the rules.

[@gladfan1989]

I agree with what you said about Turbo, but as Kyler also said, he was also at fault. Larry Thompson made the right call on both men.

[@jeremyriley1238]

True that. He lost all his points because he faked his jumps, and he got half of them back after Turbo got DQ'ed.

[@DarthBrockstar]

And Stripperella with Pam Anderson up next!! 😂😂😂

[@matthewrivera5923]

which season was this from?

[@AWrestlingHistorian]

Surprised he didn't sue him.

[@ToolsandTime]

Oh I miss the 90s!

[@mizshellytee]

i'm not an idiot. i understand damn well what you're saying. however, i wasn't talking about the flip in breakthrough to begin with! i was responding to *gsdperson*'s post. they thought kyler was charged with picking up two balls in swingshot at once (which was not the case). i was explaining to that person why kyler was penalized; and he was penalized for fake-jumping off the swingshot platform.

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

0:08 Wow, Wes was getting owned!!!!1

[@cartoonfan959]

Turbo was never on the International series, probaly producers felt temperament might get the better of him there... that's why they sent Hawk and Sabre instead

[@rlmotorcycles]

he could have sued for millions

[@damon2874]

Turbo could have been in the nhl but as an African American I would play hockey just for fun and if I had the skill in the late 90s I could have played in the nhl as an African-American hockey player.

[@RisingRecluse]

At first I thought what a oid raging douche. Then he apologized and it seemed he wanted to be disqualified for his actions. I can respect that.

[@JohnWatsonPuppetChannel]

That was a stupid move Kyler made. Turbo shouldn't reacted the way he did, either.

[@Rlotpir1972]

Both should've been red carded.

[@laquotes]

I agree. Crap like that basically killed the show. As much as I like Turbo, you can't have a loose cannon on a show like this. In a way, it's kind of family oriented. Punching a contestant is the worst thing that could happen. The new version of NBC is not going to be able to get away with that crap. Not with the power of the internet and vocal fans. They've got to choose the new Gladiators carefully.

[@dugger0]

The front flip was after this event. If you look it up the commentator even mentions the punch and their "bad blood" just before he does it.

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

1:11 Turbo made Laser look like a rule-abiding good boy here!!!!

[@jimwest7107]

Wesley 2 scoops Berry

[@TheZaius]

He broke the rules? Only one way to deal with that. *PUNCH* Oh, right, there are referees...

[@footytang]

Nobody fakes with Turbo, Turbo's ex-girlfriends faces are a road map of truth

[@RD-wg2nt]

What fragile masculinity looks like

[@aquarianbabe]

Honestly, it's not turbo's job to enforce the rules. He should've have just dealt with it...it was on tape.

[@namk19]

now can we get a better version of kyler storm's front flip in breakthrough and conquer?

[@PNL_King]

No reverse angle?