Deadliest Warrior on Spike TV

[Wookiesmurf]

http://www.spike.com/show/31082

"Each week on Deadliest Warrior, a new episode will pit two of the most feared warriors civilization has ever known against each other. Along with the use of 21st century science and the latest in CGI technology, each episode enlists warrior-specific world-class fighters and experts to provide insight into what makes these combatants tick, analyzing every facet of their unique skills of destruction, culminating in a head-to-head final fight between two legends of the battlefield that will produce the deadliest warrior. Other highly-anticipated showdowns this season include: Pirate vs. Knight, Taliban vs. IRA, Yakuza vs. Mafia, Viking vs. Samurai, Green Beret vs. Spetznaz, Maori vs. Shaolin Monks, William Wallace vs. Shaka Zulu and Ninja vs. Spartan."

Well, this is awfully silly. Still going to watch it, though!
Surprised they didn't give in to the Internet of two years ago and put the pirate up against the ninja. The viking is going to kick some samurai butt!

Premieres April 7.

[Toshiro Mifune]

Did You Know?
• Contrary to popular myth, Viking helmets did not have horns. In fact, many Vikings had no helmets at all.
• The fiercest Vikings were known as berserkers. They howled, wore bear or wolf skins, bit their shields and worked themselves into a rage intended to frighten their enemies. During battle, berserkers could allegedly withstand enormous pain.
• When two Vikings had a dispute they could settle it with a duel called a holmgang, in which they stood on a small section of animal hide. If a person stepped off the hide, he lost. If he drew blood from his opponent, he was victorious.

I think the match would be close depending on many different factors.

[Anonymous]

the maori bit sounds amusing.

[SanguineKendoka]

Did You Know?
• The fiercest Vikings were known as berserkers. They howled, wore bear or wolf skins, bit their shields and worked themselves into a rage intended to frighten their enemies. During battle, berserkers could allegedly withstand enormous pain.

History nerds, report in.

The vikings weren't really much more violent than other European peoples, most of them lived farming lifestyles typical for the period (marauding in Britain was only a short hobby for a few years, they settled in northern England after that). Some historians think berserkers are why vikings in general have such a vicious reputation - scary bastards left the deepest memories, even though there were so few of them.

(Note: 'Scouse', a term for someone from Liverpool/Liverpool accent, comes from a Scandinavian vegetable stew called skaus. Part of why the scouse accent is so different from other northern accents is 'cos of Scandinavian settling.)

[Wookiesmurf]

First episode made available for streaming.

http://www.spike.com/full-episode/ap...ladiator/31444

[ScottUK]

I love shit like this. I'm gonna play along...


The battlefield warrior apache standing toe to toe with a gladiator, who is ultimately a professional duellist? Haha awesome.

Pirate vs. Knight = Reality: Knight. TV Result: Knight ('cos everyone loves a hero)
Taliban vs. IRA = Reality: IRA. TV Result: IRA (due to the fact that the IRA could be seen by US eyes as freedom fighters, even though the taliban fit this ideal too)
Yakuza vs. Mafia = Reality: Yakuza. TV Result: Yakuza (having all your fingers intact doesn't give an advantage)
Viking vs. Samurai = Reality: Samurai. TV Result: Samurai (see Hakata bay)
Green Beret vs. Spetznaz = Reality: Spetznaz. TV Result: Green Berets (even though the Spetznaz outnumbered (and some say excelled in H-to-H combat more than any other modern force) they don't have a chance against American TV producers)
Maori vs. Shaolin Monks = Reality: Maori. TV Result: Shaolin ('cos tattoos are a bad image for the kids)
William Wallace vs. Shaka Zulu = Reality: Shaka. TV Result: Braveheart ('cos he loves his Freedom, just like the American TV chaps)
Ninja vs. Spartan = Reality: Spartan. TV Result: Ninja ('cos the kids love 'em)

[Wookiesmurf]

My take:

Pirate vs. Knight - Pirate by drowning.
Taliban vs. IRA - No contest due to suicide bombing.
Yakuza vs. Mafia - Mafia by Tommy Gun.
Viking vs. Samurai - Viking by mead and shroom-induced axe rampage.
Green Beret vs. Spetznaz - Green Berets by patriotism.
Maori vs. Shaolin Monks - Shaolin Monks by being awesome.
William Wallace vs. Shaka Zulu - Wallace by being in Braveheart.
Ninja vs. Spartan - Spartan. Want a reason? Compare http://www.strongbodies.net/wp-conte...00MoviePic.jpg with http://www.rice.edu/projects/threshe...inja.final.gif

[tango]

I watched this show last night..

Apache vs. Gladiator

(Apache actually won a vast majority of the computer simulations)

I think I shall not be interested in watching the show again..

[ScottUK]

I think I shall not be interested in watching the show again..

I bet you do.

You know, if they left it at 'who's the deadliest', I could have gone with the old Apache, but for them to slug it out with weapons and have the Gladiator lose was pure gold.

Computer simulations! Since when did odds decide an outcome? No better than playing Top Trumps...

[Wookiesmurf]

I wish they would have dropped the trash talk. That was really cringeworthy. And rating the knife as a medium-range weapon? Come on! Not to mention when the gladiator was in mount, bashing the apache's face with the cestus, and suddenly decided to stop and stand up. Will watch again for lulz.

[Abramo]

I watched a few of these only it was with "Nature's deadliest awes0mezt eXtRemE killing machin3z0rz!!1" (it was like that, really, the name of the show...) and it was the most silly fabrication I've ever seen. It was basically a handfull of young hip looking "experts" tossing a bunch of OPINIONS around about who they thought was the most awesome, and they played around with stupid spring-and-lever "simulations" and stuff... really a waste of time.

Scott got it totally right though, if it was "Iowan Girlscouts vs 6th Soviet Guards Army" the Girlscouts would win...

[tango]

I wish they would have dropped the trash talk. That was really cringeworthy. And rating the knife as a medium-range weapon? Come on! Not to mention when the gladiator was in mount, bashing the apache's face with the cestus, and suddenly decided to stop and stand up. Will watch again for lulz.

agreed.
i thought the trashtalk was really cheesy myself... although i had a good laugh when the "u.s. army special forces training guru/apache guy" started talking about how bad the apache's war hammer(?) was, and then was completely humbled when that hammer broke on the gladiator's helmet.

overall, i thought the guys representin' the apache side of things portrayed themselves as real douchebags.

[corwyn]

Wow, that was even worse than I thought. I'd have to be really bored to want to watch another episode.

I never knew that gladiators were whiny bitches, either. LOL

[Massimo]

Really sad program and actors.. but really good FX

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[JSchmidt]

History nerds, report in.

The vikings weren't really much more violent than other European peoples, most of them lived farming lifestyles typical for the period (marauding in Britain was only a short hobby for a few years, they settled in northern England after that). Some historians think berserkers are why vikings in general have such a vicious reputation - scary bastards left the deepest memories, even though there were so few of them.

Yeah, the farm-loving Danes used their mad cows to conquer England and install a Danish king. .
It's been a few years since I heard 'they were really only farmers' story.