
Fans of destruction, damage and mayhem, prepare to be delighted…
There’s a new half-hour series debuting on G4 this fall called Human Wrecking Balls that stars brothers Craig and Paul Pumphrey, two dudes who demolish everything from boats and cars to houses and bars using only their bare hands!
Nice.
“Guys seem to have an innate fascination with watching demolition,” said Neal Tiles, President of G4. “Add to this the science behind it and the idea of two brothers doing all the demolition physically, and we think Human Wrecking Balls is an excellent addition to our programming line-up with.”
The Pumphreys are far from your average brothers with a combined weight of 550 pounds. Craig is a decorated police officer and world champion mixed martial artist. He recognized his gift of surviving hard crashes at a young age after falling 20-feet on to a steel construction bolt that shattered his skull only to bounce back days later. His brother, Paul, is a construction worker and has been twice crowned World Creative Breaking Champion, once after breaking through six-feet of ice. With their outrageous sense of humor and daredevil attitudes, the Pumphrey brothers are out to show the world that with the right approach and enough physical toughness almost anything is possible.
The Pumphreys are strategic in their passion for dismantling things. For each challenge, they join forces with a team of experts in material science and engineering to review the object of their destruction from every possible angle before taking it apart, using physics and know-how to determine the most effective approach. The duo also enjoys a little friendly competition throughout the challenges such as who can break out of a jail cell the fastest and which Pumphrey makes a better bouncer based on who can most successfully destroy a bar.
Additionally, each Human Wrecking Balls episode reveals the final outcome of the Pumphrey’s ripping and smashing, as well as the various experiments they put to the test. For instance, is a foreign or domestic car easier to dismantle? You’ll find out this fall on G4!



Comment(s)
I smell Emmy for this gem of a show!
G4 used to be the channel of GAMING and Japanese Culture and things of the like, not this Man Show hurl BS.
Freaking bring back G4.com!!!
Seriously, why can't they just be the gaming/geek culture channel? Everybody else on cable manages to find a nice little niche and stick with it. X-play and AOTS are the only good shows on G4 now outside of special event coverage.
Code Monkeys is not my cup of tea, but I understand the appeal and think it fits well with the network. But the others, ick.
I mean Hurl? Honestly? C'mon...this is some epic joke right? A few weeks from now the president of the network is going to come out and say "Hey guys, remember when I tricked you all into thinking vomiting and punching walls were real shows? Ha, I gotcha good! Here's ten cool shows about gaming."
I'm okay with Ninja Warrior and the other Japanese shows, to an extent. I think they tie into that gamer/geek idea fairly well, but I think that G4 relies on them too heavily and shows them too much.
But Cops and Cheaters have got to go. If you're going to rerun old shows, buy the rights to Captain Power or the old Mario Bros cartoons or something. At least that remotely relates to the tech/gamer/geek idea.
WEAK.