Gladiator Nitro Loses His Cool When He Meets His Match | American Gladiators

Nitro does not like to lose - and sometimes that gets him into trouble!
Hang Tough: The Gladiator and contender swing across hanging gymnastics rings, with the contender trying to make it to the opposite platform without the Gladiator forcing them off.
Tug-O-War: The Gladiator and contender face off in a tug-of-war while standing on tilting platforms.
Assault: The contender must attempt to hit a target while a Gladiator shoots at them using a tennis ball cannon.
Gauntlet: The contender needs to run through a half-pipe, with five Gladiators trying to stop them using handheld pads.
Snapback: Contenders and Gladiators are attached to bungee cords, with an aim to grab scoring cylinders from the center of the field and bring them back to their own bins.
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[@XxStonedImmaculatexX]

He always looked like he was on the verge of becoming unhinged 😂

[@DanNitroClark1]

A chancery I was playing. - all in fun!

[@Gatsu_Gambino]

​@@DanNitroClark1I always watched you guys growing up. Thanks man

[@22airjordan1]

@@DanNitroClark1 YOOO Nitro what up!

[@KevinTkt14]

​@@DanNitroClark1loved watching you guys growing up, I turn 30 in a few months!

[@tizodd6]

@@DanNitroClark1 Yooo Nitro! 44yo here, I grew up watching you guys. Thanks for all the good memories dude👍🏽

[@alex3373]

Nitro: “What happens sometimes is that I get into a roid rage when I lose” 😂😂😂

[@chadporter5907]

Nitro was always roid raging constantly

[@DanNitroClark1]

@@chadporter5907 dudes get a grip. It was a character. Come on now!

[@truthh8322]

If that's steroids then he got ripped off

[@abysmalvsmarcus]

Exactly, he confessed about his use on Tyra's show

[@DanNitroClark1]

Netflix June 28th Gladiator 5 part series spills the beans!

[@ZNA_Productions]

He ALWAYS had to call them little or small when he lost to a smaller guy 😂 The egos on the Gladiators were part of what made them great villains.

[@jeffreynapisa122]

No just made them Dicks and showed that they were sore losers...especially to a "smaller" guy tgar showed their ass up.

[@maxwelljacobfreedom]

Canceled. Put your dress on son

[@ChillPill365]

These guys were definitely showmen. Shame to hear that they didn't make more. Schedule was brutal.

[@DettmersNate]

The biggest mistake in television history was taking American Gladiators off the air, this show was awesome when I was a kid, every Saturday night after Saturday night live!

[@Ballen1182]

I was going to ask when this came on, because i forgot 😄Tyvm!

[@NBT131313]

Man, I miss this show. Nitro always looked like he was one look away from losing it.

[@pernykvist3442]

I agree i seen worse stuff happend.

[@lewlewlaser037]

If it helps the UK version is coming back so fingers crossed the American gladiators will return one day

[@kevinlucas8437]

That was a really fun show !!! The gladiators were awesome !!! But some contestants were incredible athletes !!!

[@turkeyman631]

Yeah man there must be fear of lawsuits because this should totally still be a thing. I always lived that tennis ball portion where they had to run through an obstacle course.

[@hamil4fb]

I didn't realize the gladiators played up the heel angle. Def a fun show and Nitro seems like a great dude; hope he's doing well and not too banged up

[@jwoodford84]

Wesley “2 scoops” Barry

[@salvadorromero9712]

@@WaryofExtremes-realoriginal I wonder how many Gladiators could make those qualifications. I know they're much better athletes than bodybuilders their size, but still it's not uncommon for bodybuilders to have trouble with those.

[@rabbithole8592]

American Gladiator Cheryl Wilson was murdered by her Husband.

[@logansimmons5892]

Damn, that dude's grip strength is unreal to hold on that long.

[@MooseGoBlue]

All those years of watching pornhub got his wrists like the Terminator lol

[@DirtyMoneyHipHop]

This was before the internet, haha!@@MooseGoBlue

[@Aerodeth]

@@DirtyMoneyHipHop Yep. Back then, the porn was still in theaters!

[@jpprophete1988]

I miss this show. I remember watching this right after wwf superstars.

[@ArkOmen1]

Absolutely! This was a great thing to watch on Saturdays!

[@TripleT706]

Man. WWF Superstars. Where does the time go?

[@chirostandard1111]

Saturday mornings back then were epic

[@abuhaadiyah9403]

Can’t believe we’re the old timers now. Saturday mornings were the best as a kid.

[@ColinoDeani]

This show was AWESOME.. we need to bring it back.. unify America.. I Miss AMERICAN Gladiators

[@sdot5389]

Yes. Pump those Roids to unify America.

[@nateward9592]

UK version is returning soon, and MGM and WWE are working on a new American Gladiators from what I heard

[@jakeh6980]

They need to make the competitors “woke” leftists and gladiators american loving conservatives so we can watch them get crushed and then cry racism and cry all the phobe words

[@The_DC_Kid]

Only our Great Unifier, Poor Ol' Stumblin' Joe, can accomplish that feat.

[@dnegel9546]

They already did that but it flopped. Nobody watches tb anymore anyways

[@adamwhitcomb2387]

I love the way nitro respects his competitors even that lil shove was a nod to him

[@vincemckee7363]

he was a great interview! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXesh6NjiK-DrZI

[@shinigami146]

Does he REALLY respect them while constantly calling them little? Sounds more like sour grapes when he loses.

[@jbo4547]

​@@shinigami146even if he meant it as a dig, it made the guys look better.

[@KyprosEc]

I loved American gladiators when I was growing up! Canadian here

[@shinigami146]

@@KyprosEc Get your OWN Gladiators, Canadian! Haha, I'm kidding of course 😉🙂. I just had to add: That's like saying to Americans, get your OWN Michael J. Fox, Ryan Reynolds, John Candy, Pamela Anderson, Martin Short, Gilda Radner, Alex Trebek, etc. The list goes on and on and on. I've taken notes on great Canadian entertainers over the years, as you see 😉.

[@queensgaelsmenshockey]

You weren’t a kid in the 90s unless you played hang tough at the park with your friends on the playground rings

[@thedon3346]

"Thats why he is Nitro" Bro just took his job seriously, and seemed love it.

[@ArkOmen1]

Coolest show ever! Why can't we have this on again?

[@mr.smithgnrsmith7808]

Because how DARECmen be masculine….smfh…so sick of these brainwashed commie lunatics

[@The_DC_Kid]

It was on again for awhile a few years ago but their former fan base had moved on.

[@dnegel9546]

@@The_DC_Kiddied of old age.

[@salvadorromero9712]

Ninja Warrior is easily the closest we have in spirit. It's like Gladiators without the combat element. It's a better designed show, for what it is, than Gladiators was, but I miss the old element. I still don't know why that vacuum isn't waiting to be filled, why a revival failed as early as the 2000s. I would think it would be a strong, timeless concept.

[@salvadorromero9712]

@@The_DC_Kid That revival is now much closer to the time of the original Gladiators than it is to the present!

[@LeeKingsnatch]

He was waiting his “whole life” for a shot at Nitro, meanwhile Nitro was on TV for like 3 years 😂

[@CaptainSpalding72]

And the contestant was 21. Hahah... morons for sure.

[@Black6x]

The guy was only 3 years old.

[@raddastronaut]

The last guy where he ripped him down. 😂. Brutal.

[@aliasiskey4434]

Just realized how can Nitro do his own interview in drag. Indentical at 5:00😂😂😂😂

[@salvadorromero9712]

She's not the same sex and probably is not even Asian but they do look like they could be a John Money identical twins project! I love that unrelated doppleganger phenomenon!

[@redzoom7857]

Loved Nitro! Also, little man didn’t pull him off, he let go of the rope when Nitro was pulling and he lost his balance, unimpressed.

[@niceguy6837]

He outsmarted him

[@jessie7339jessie]

The golden years of television

[@MuckoMan]

Man I hated Nitro back in the day but now that I watch him he seems like a pretty cool guy.

[@gladfan1989]

I'm surprised they didn't show the epic Conquer ring battle with Darrell Gholar. One for the ages.

[@ace7467]

He didn’t lose anything he just stayed in character

[@suzydelrey7335]

Couldn't wait to watch Saturday nights as a kid,awesome show,now in my 40's,great memories

[@Dman3827]

I liked where he kicked the cone high in the air and said the F word after the conquer ring with Golar. I also liked the one where Nitro grabs a contenders front face helmet guard on the joust and pushes them off. I thought I remember that.

[@trey5153]

This old show was the bomb.. why there not shows like this anymore is crazy

[@mr.smithgnrsmith7808]

LOVED watching this on Saturday mornings

[@AJones101ful]

Cant wait for the documentry!

[@debochannel4827]

Man I swear I use to love this show and want to compete on it as a kid

[@jongee2230]

Geez, I remember hanging out with Nitro about a million years ago back in the 80's in LA. THAT'S A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE. 😊

[@pennwoman]

That’s awesome. Was he cool?

[@jongee2230]

@pennwoman He was another bodybuilder-athlete in Southern California in the 80s loving life and riding the lightning like the rest of us. 😁 Good Times...

[@artseosamhogriobhta]

This was such an amaziing show. The culture is sowed was brilliant, be strong, be tough, be the winner. Struggle through adversity. I loved the UK version growing up.

[@modrn_]

They need to bring this show back man, I used to love watching this shit as a kid.

[@wwerty234]

at what point did he lose his cool? dude seems pretty chill to me

[@creativewaystothrowgames5729]

really tho wtf i kept waiting for it. never came.

[@greyclouds6052]

Thank you. You saved me some precious time :)

[@mikeattard3543]

Yeah, if "got irritated" equals "losing your cool," that's it. Otherwise, I think the video title oversells it.

[@rayromano6249]

​@@mikeattard3543he was playing a character. Never irritated

[@Widemouth1832]

They talked about roid rage in the Netflix show and from what I remember there were very few instances of gladiators losing their cool with contestants.

[@titotruth6076]

One of the coolest shows ever. They rebooted it but ruined it with over the top production. A problem with a lot of shows today.

[@herogibson]

Man one time early in the series i saw nitro get almost knocked out cold. they had a former patriots practice squad fullback on there, and nitro got in his way in powerball. Nitro was standing upright, way too high, and got absolutely trucked. He got up and tried to finish but he was totally screwed. The other guy ran and dumped like 4 or 5 balls in on his side real quick. Ill never forget that one. Nitro is a pretty tough dude to get up from that on his own lol

[@nicholasmorsovillo2752]

Nitro was one of the veteran Gladiators on American Gladiators he was on the show since the beginning.

[@zerohero6602]

Nitro made a great unintentional heel. Loved this show

[@salvadorromero9712]

What makes you say unintentional? Agree tho. Live Gladiators and love Nitro.

[@chrislaw9574]

Not once did he lose it. Couldn’t have been calmer 😂

[@Catastrophic-hk3mh]

Man John Redcorn was a badass

[@SoCal90sKid]

I always wanted to compete in this show. It was a fun show to watch

[@TheRealJohnMadden]

I truly miss this show, Guts, and Legends of the Hidden Temple. What fun shows we used to have as kids.

[@AverageHuman7026]

He could have totally played live action John Redcorn 😂

[@bullyboy131]

Well done show. Refs and even other players called each other out when they were wrong. Nitro to get back up from his fellow Gladiators, but they were like "no you were wrong." Lol

[@wukilla8ee]

I used to LOVE this show as a kid

[@medicropper]

This was one of the best shows growing up. They need to remake it.

[@algnar5786]

This was awesome to watch

[@rosshurst5630]

Loved this show

[@Ilurk247]

Great show, I saw all of those when they were originally broadcast :p It looked like Nitro really tried to hurt people from roid rage, he got ripped off though, all he got was the rage without the mass :D

[@thedarkness5826]

I dont know if the drama was scripted but i didnt care we love this stuff just like 90s wrestling

[@playdiscgolf1546]

The drama was scripted just the like the WWE and UFC but man was it entertaining

[@Tygor3533]

American Gladiators was lit 🔥

[@DAMusic-qu2ec]

I loved this show as a kid

[@keithdougherty1584]

Bring back American Gladiators!!!

[@jonathanmyers2867]

3:33 Bullseye! 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

[@jasonrivera8902]

Shows from the 90s will never be beat

[@bk7278]

Best show ever

[@AfroVersity]

We all have a little Nitro in us

[@n.d.4192]

This was a great show.

[@Comeoffitman]

I used to watch this at the fire station and made the guys do these games on Saturday and knocked the Chief out and had to do dishes and pick trash up in the yard

[@davidtaylor6663]

great show. I thought about trying out back in the day. Decided I didnt need to be humiliated ;)

[@scottpitner4298]

I always wanted the tennis all gun at the end. Lol 🤘

[@raddastronaut]

Nitro was my favorite, met him in 91. Good dude.

[@TalkingHands308]

That was part of his character, lol. I remember watching this show back in the day, it was fun. It was like pro wrestling but slightly more real, lol.

[@josephkunath4173]

Used to love this show

[@OGshogun444]

Bring this show back pls

[@averagecarpentryskills7148]

this was Saturday morning as a kid along with cartoons and pro wrestling

[@kaylamarie8309]

Nitro is the man!👍

[@kainable8769]

Nostalgia!!!

[@randomupdates4013]

Man, turbo got no mention on Netflix. Him and Nitro were great competitors

[@ShadowAngel-lt8nw]

Lots of Gladiators weren't mentioned. It was especially annoying that the show didn't even mention all the Gladiators who are dead by now (Gold, Siren, Atlas, Hawk and Thunder)

[@randomupdates4013]

@@ShadowAngel-lt8nwfacts

[@maxmt4325]

I love that lady in the background screaming 😂

[@xart23x]

Loved this show as a kid. Nitro was a beast. Hated em’. Haha. But, he made the show and was great athlete. Wonder what he does now. Anybody?

[@emmanueljames9029]

And that's why he's "Excuse-tro" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kt420ish]

I miss this show

[@mascadadelpantion8018]

Yeah I remember this guy being pretty intense

[@OfficialPadre]

Alotta steroids, a lot of nitro

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

I found him scary. :(

[@mascadadelpantion8018]

@@STEJTHEGREATEST yeah he was a douchebag all right

[@JohnJohnson-mo4bn]

Intense? He's merely a cheating pos poor sport.

[@tictac1337]

we need a revival with the old gladiators !

[@Ur_Mothas_Lova_716]

Man I miss the 90s

[@STEJTHEGREATEST]

So Nitro was the American version of Wolf!!!!! Shame they never met. :(

[@starboy32]

You mean wolf was the Australian version of nitro.

[@BanditJustice]

@@starboy32 Actually Wolf was on the UK version the Austrailan version was named Vulcan

[@billybobs1705]

no wolf was not an arrogant prick....he was just angry and naughty

[@elecbass100]

Stigmatizing the shorter people is not a good look. But ouch when shown up by one!

[@bentheswitchsportsfan06]

"We ought to disqualify Larry Thompson" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@sitindogmas]

miss those tv days

[@ENTERTAINMENT35]

Lol Nitro. Bud Bundy and Al Bundys sky diving instructor in Married with Children

[@lichtsoldat7697]

I went to watch AG live in 1990. That was 5 hrs I'll never get back again.....

[@PietroMaira80sAreAwesome]

bring this show back -

[@Oubre84]

Reminds me of my childhood Saturday mornings

[@atfmedia9540]

He had to throw in the "little man" comment after losing the tug of war. Well, I guess the "big man" still had lingering brain damage from getting run the F over by that Craig guy in a prior episode.

[@Amero2323]

Yeah!

[@salvadorromero9712]

Yeah that was a pretty fun backhanded compliment. Of course Nitro was by far the smallest male Gladiator (despite injecting a truly reckless PED protocol just like the rest of them) so maybe there's a bit of psychology there. That dude is just crazy short, that's all. He looks damn well as impressive as Nitro, and comparing himself to the Pit bull terrier was obviously appropriate! I love Nitro and I love it when competitors get all badass like our "little" friend here!

[@Dpend84]

He was obviously insecure with his size being the smallest gladiator.

[@durellscott9411]

Setup..was the best show tho 😂

[@yubukai]

Nice.

[@billycole852]

He started thinking about how much money that show made vs how much he got paid

[@ericgatlin6414]

Nitro just did it for the show

[@exclamationpointman3852]

I never saw that bungee cord even - they must have got hurt bad on that game!

[@chadkent1241]

Always a hot-head, but quite entertaining!

[@victorjames7]

I’m in the UK 🇬🇧 many in the US are pretty poor when it comes to geography, but great at making entertaining shows. I used to watch this in the late evenings in my teens, watching this made me feel young again.

[@toddreynolds1928]

Nitro looks like he morphs into a wolf at night and runs through the forest.

[@TecmoBowlPlayer]

This show used to come on every Saturday afternoon.

[@Funkafella01]

Man I miss this show. Remember back in the day it used to be WWF followed by American gladiators.

[@KJ-ez6bm]

In a way i used Nitros attitude when i trained...focus.. intensity..😊

[@MGower4465]

I went to tryouts for this, and they angled the challenges for smaller, agile players so in the show, the contenders were always at a power deficit to make the Gladiators look more massive.

[@BrockLanders]

I thought Smiley was Wesley “ 2 Scoops” Berry. 😂

[@pinebarrenpatriot8289]

They didn't show it in this video but I remember Nitro giving a contestant a quick side kick with his heel while the guy was still down after he beat Nitro in one of the tackle events.

[@1701basil]

This was reality tv before reality tv

[@Oplix]

The Original Ninja Warrior

[@jameshudgeon9385]

Miss this game show😶‍🌫️🤲🫡

[@1amNumberOne]

Rhe 80s were a beautiful thing