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Wolf on the Return of American Gladiators
By Fred Topel | Image property of respective holders
American Gladiators: Wolf
The Return of Wolf
"I've been asked to tone it down a little here and there with Season Two because I'm an animal, and that's just not a character," said Wolf. "When I compete, I've been a bullfighter for 23 years, rodeo clown-style. So I've been getting hit and run over by bulls for 23 years. I've had over 130 broken bones, three knee surgeries, an Achilles tendon torn, I've had a bull gore me with a horn nine inches into me and almost killed me, and a year to the day of that, I was becoming a gladiator. So the way I look at it is, I've taken all of this abuse all these years, it's my turn to dish it out. So if you're trying to come in and get $100,000 out of my company, you're gonna earn it. So I do tend to get a little vicious and a little ferocious and I do attack a little harder. And they have come to me a couple times and said, "Dude, seriously, tone it down. We're going to have to tranq you." I mean because I do tend to snap sometimes."
Wolf tries to go to a zen place, but sometimes injuries are inevitable. "I would say that the odds are pretty good that somebody's gonna get hurt. Last season we had a broken leg, a torn ACL, a few torn ACLs. This season, fortunately, there haven't been any severe ones. We've had an ankle sprain, a couple dislocations. So you're going to have injuries. This isn't ballet. This is a contact sport. So you're gonna have some injuries. They know that coming in. If they don't know that coming, they're dang sure gonna know it leaving."
New gladiators are also joining Wolf and the old gang, and he welcomes them. "They're wanting every episode to be different. So every episode there'll be something new popping up, whether it be an event or a gladiator. That way it just keeps it fresh and exciting and something that you're gonna want to tune in for because it's not going to be the same old show every day."
One quality unites the gladiators both new and old, and the contestants, according to Wolf. "You have to have heart. Heart is what basically separates a boy from a man. It's what separates a girl from a woman. It's what separates a normal person from a gladiator, a warrior. Heart is when you're getting beat down, beat down or you've got injuries that any normal person would step back and say, 'You know what? I'm done. I've got to ice. I've got to get some Advil. I'm done. I can't go any further.' That's when a gladiator steps up and goes, 'I'm fine. I can keep going.' And you keep pushing, keep pushing. You separate something, you break something, and you just keep moving. You don't stop. It's been like that in everything I've ever done."
American Gladiators airs Mondays.
Fred Topel
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