Tim Oliphant and Ally Davidson have won Season 2 of American Gladiators, Tim and Ally each received $100,000 and a 2008 Toyota Sequoia for beating out 20 male and female competitors.

Tim, a 33-year-old Kanakuk Kamps media director from Branson, MO, completed the Eliminator — a timed obstacle course that contenders competed in at the end of each episode — at 1:21, four seconds short of the previous record of 1:17 he had set during the semifinal round.

“I want to thank my family and friends for backing me up!” shouted Tim after his victory. “I want to thank the gladiators for beating me into shape!”

Tim defeated Mike Gamble, a 29-year-old dance choreographer, special events producer, fitness trainer and media consultant from Hollywood, CA, during American Gladiators’ second-season finale.

“I came from a place where people said I couldn’t do something, I’m to small to prove who I am,” said Mike. “Right now — me standing here with Tim, the two top people in American Gladiators — I proved to everybody that anything’s possible.”

Ally, a 24-year-old sales representative from Dallas, TX, completed the Eliminator in 1:45 and defeated Tiffaney Florentine, a 25-year-old business consultant from Royal Oak, MI. Tiffaney had previously held the fastest second-season Eliminator time for the females, completing it in 2:06 during the semifinal round.

“My family’s the reason why I won!” screamed Ally after her victory. (more…)

I have to admit I’m just poking fun at the cover of her new album, Hard Candy, but it sure gave me a laugh to see the reinvention of her as a fighter. I personally never forgave her from switching from her “Like a Virgin” image to whatever came next. She went from hot to not so much fairly quickly.

Anyways, I just had to post it and make a comment. Enjoy!

Our favorite blonde female Gladiator Venom, aka Beth Horn, reveals what life is like to be her. This is a nice article done by the Chicago Tribune about Beth, her husband Bruce and their life together. It adds a little humanity to that fierce attitude you see week in and week out.

This past Friday in San Diego our favorite American Gladiator Gina Carano made an appearance at Comic Con for Donruss to sign autographs on her specially made Donruss Americana cards at the company’s booth.

Gina is definately making the most of her fame while branching out into other areas, good for her.

To get everybody caught up NBC has posted a two-minute replay of the first semi-final match from July 21st. For the women it was Vanessa Warren going up against Ally Davidson. On the mens side camp counsler Tim Oliphant went up against war hero Alexander Coats. Check out the video above.

Looks like NBC, Hellboy 2 and American Gladiators teamed up for a little cross promotion for the new movie Hellboy 2. The video above features Wolf and Hellboy doing a little training with a Joust stick. The new movie Hellboy 2 opens July 11th nationwide.

Celebrity Family Feud that is… Titan, Venom, Laila Ali, Wolf and Jet make up Team “American Gladiators.” Although not announced yet, they should be appearing soon in the NBC rejuvenated game show against Team “The Office.” Last night (Tuesday), the premiere episode pitted 4 of the 24 teams against each other. Al Roker of Today Show fame is the host of this updated classic. During each episode four celebrity families will be pitted against each other in the tournament style competition, with the winner from each round moving to the final round , where they will compete to win $50,000 for their charity. Tune in to see if Team AG has the brains to go with their beauty and brawn!

The overnight Nielson ratings have been posted and American Gladiators had 5.61 Million viewers tuning in to see the Hulked out Episode 4. Ratings were up more than 500K viewers from the previous weeks mark of 5.05 million viewers. So far Episode 4 is the highest rated show with viewership increasing each of the past two weeks. Lets hope this keeps up and NBC keeps this show around for Season 3.

Tonights episode of American Gladiators will be a special “Hulk” themed episode with guest star Lou Ferrigno from the original “Incredible Hulk” tv series.  The Hulk themed episode will feature a hulked out Gladiator Arena and an exclusive 60-second preview from the upcoming movie “The Incredible Hulk”.  The new movie which stars Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth and William Hurt opens four days later on June 13th.

The Hulk themed episode will also feature a redone L.A. Sports Arena with the pool being green, green lighting, green graphics and green balls for Powerball.  Audience members were given 1,000 pairs of Hulk hands to wear throughout the episode and some will wear Hulk masks.  Also Gladiators competing in the Gauntlet will use Hulk Hands to stop the oncoming contenders.

The contenders for tonights episode will be science teacher Tony Tolbert going up against Columbine survivor Landon Jones.  For the women’s side, Army veteran Chuanda Mason goes toe-to-toe with gritty crime reporter Rochelle Gilken.  This episode should definately be memorable with all the added effects.

Check out a video preview of the episode below… (more…)

Check out the video above to get a sneak peek of the Hulk Themed episode tonight on NBC at 7pm central time.