Crush is nigh indestructible atop the Joust platform, as even Monica Carlson learned to her dismay.

"American Gladiators" winners Monica Carlson and Evan Dollard are interviewed on WPIX-TV in New York.

NBC pimped out trotted out "American Gladiators" champ Monica Carlson on this morning's "Today" show, and during her interview segment Monica is reported to have admitted that she hasn't been able to come up with a good gladiator name. Commenter Ray Sword suggests Tsunami, which is good. I have a few suggestions, also:

• "Overthrow" - For tossing Stealth off the "Pyramid" (and into physical therapy).
• "Pinball" - Referring to her speedy, careening style.
• "Red Rover" - References the childlike glee she exhibits in competition.
• "Soccer Mom" - That's what "American Gladiators" producers like to call her.
• "Whoops!" - Her theatrically phony slips from the hand bike on "Eliminator" were a high point of the show for me.
• "Tomboy" - Obvious.

Add your own in the comments!

Monica CarlsonI hope Monica Carlson enjoyed Costa Rica following her win on "American Gladiators". As predicted by 94% of American Gladiator Girls readers, Monica Carlson took the gold in tonight's competition, soundly defeating Shanay Norvell.

Shanay was a much stronger competitor in the finals than she seemed to be during the preliminaries. Monica Carlson, conversely, seemed almost superhuman in her initial appearance but wasn't quite so impressive in the later stages. Still, Monica was able to outperform Shanay and presumably will appear as a gladiator next season.

Congratulations to Monica Carlson!

Reader 'someone' posted in the forum that 'American Gladiators' finalist Monica Carlson was one of the models/actresses in last year's weird Microsoft 'Surface' ads. For those of you who missed last year's blitz on the tech blogs, the Surface is a prototype that Microsoft apparently found to be so unspeakably cool that it built a short-lived ad campaign around it.

Amusingly enough, Monica Carlson also shows up as an unwitting participant in SarcasticGamer.com's hilarious Microsoft Surface parody video, embedded after the jump.