Through Jeff Metcalfe’s blog at THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC, we find out about Breaux Greer, one of the new American Gladiators for this season. (Hopefully, he was hired to knock the Pinkberry out of Gina Carano’s hand and get her back in the gym to make weight.) This Louisiana native will go by the name of Hurricane. (Really? Not too soon?)

Unfortunately, this U.S. Olympic javelin star has been injured constantly throughout his career and is taking his last toss at Olympic glory at the end of the month in Olympic trials. Therefore, he has high hopes for his Gladiator career:

“I wasn’t put here to be a background character in somebody else’s movie. … It (American Gladiators) is brutal, it’s a brutal thing, but I enjoy it. I’m a contact guy. You can sit there and cry about it and sit in your chair and go train and be finicky about it. This is just my life. I’m a survivor. If I get hurt, I don’t care, dude. It’s all good. Everything will work out.”

When you put it like that and with those blond locks of yours, you come off less like the lead Gladiator and more like… well…

By all accounts, Greer is a funny and likable fellow, so we recommend the full interview. Still, we have to wonder about two events. First, why does “American Gladiators” take its actors out of their training just before big events? If the producers are intent on taking world-class athletes, couldn’t they hire enough to cycle through them when, say, they need to make the Olympic trials?

Second, Breaux… dude. Don’t go into the Justice League like Aquaman. Go in like, we dunno, Green Arrow. Sure, all the dude did was work with projectiles (which you should be able to relate to), but he also had a wicked sense of humor. We mean, check out those projectiles. You’d be pretty badass if you knocked someone off their perch with an Atomic Warhead javelin.