GLADIATOR NAME Crush
ROAD TO DESTRUCTION You might recognize Vegas' Gina Carano, 25, from Oxygen's Muay Thai reality show Fight Girls or Showtime's EliteXC cage fights.
YOU DON'T WANT TO MEET HER IN... Joust. (Or: ''The giant Q-Tips that we beat the s--t out of each other with.'') ''Sometimes in a fight,'' says the 5'8'', 155-lb. Carano, ''it's not necessarily who's bigger or who's stronger, but it's about technique. A girl with better balance can end up being a tougher opponent than the person who looks scarier.''
THE MOST UN-GLADIATOR THING ABOUT HER? ''I get told that I smile too much, and that's in the ring, too. I've gotten laughed at because people don't believe I do what I do,'' she says. ''If we're gonna take care of it, I don't see the point in being mean about it. I like to have fun, and I'm [fighting] for just that reason, so it comes out on my face.''
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