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Ever since Netflix's The Last Dance and Drive to Survive became highly-rated docu-series, the platform has become a hub for sports-drama documentaries hoping to capitalize on the genre's newfound popularity. Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators is a Netflix Original limited documentary series about "American Gladiators", the famous television show that aired on American networks from 1989 to 1996. Directed by Jared Hess and Tony Vainuku, it is premiered on June 28, 2023, and it skates on the element of nostalgia and nothing more. The entire documentary series takes the audience through the lives of the so-called "gladiators" who took part in this good old TV show, the journey they began, and how it changed them as individuals. This grueling part of their lives is filled with only fame and no fortune because the 'gladiators' fell on hard times during their eight years on this show.  Stars: Raye Hollitt, Danny Lee Clark, M...