Experts

Every episode has at least 4 experts in each episode, at least 2 per warrior. Most ancient experts are stunt men who have recently appeared in famous Hollywood movies. Some of the modern warrior experts are professional gunmen, former special ops, relatives of the modern warriors, or the actual warrior that they represent on the show (i.e. Spetsnaz soldiers as Spetsnaz experts or SWAT officers as SWAT experts).

Apache

Alan Tafoya (World Champion Knife Fighter)

[1] [2]

Snake Blocker

Snake Blocker is a US Army Combat Instructor and champion knife fighter. He tested weapons of the Apache. He tested the Tomahawk, the Knife, and the War Club. [3]

Gladiator

Chris Torres

(Ancient Weapons Specialist)

Steven Dietrich

(Gladiator Combat Instructor)

"There are two ways out for a gladiator - the gate of death, and the gate of life. You went out the gate of life dragged out as a loser. You walked through the gate of life as a winner, bloodied, scarred, unbeatable."

Chuck Liddell

(Former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion)

Viking

Casey Hendershot

(Viking Weapons Instructor) "The samurai has no chance against a viking."

Matt Nelson

(Viking Combat Expert)

Samurai

Brett Chan

[4]

"Every move is going to be precise - everything, there's no fail. Failure's not an option for the samurai."

Tetsuro Shigematsu

[5] [6] [7]

Spartan

Barry Jacobsen

Barry Jacobsen appeared as a gladiator trainer in the Apache vs Gladiator episode.

Ninja

Michael Lehr

"So, to truly understand the strength of the ninja, you had to see how they evolved. They didn't start out as warriors. They started out as farmers, villagers, peasants - the lowest of the low. Like most people, they sought independence, but at the time, Japan was ruled by feudal warlords and the military class the samurai - very tough, very well-trained fighters. In a fair fight, the farmers and villagers really didn't stand much of a chance, so when they had to fight, they just didn't fight fair." [8]

Pirate

David Hernandez

• (On the matter of dodging the Knight's Morningstar) "See, you're thinking about running away. I'm talking about running around."
• Ironically, David would return in Somali Pirates vs. Medellin Cartel as the last cartel member to be killed by the pirates.

Knight

Josh Paugh

[9]

Yakuza

Zero Kazama

[10]

Spetsnaz

Sonny Puzikas

[11] [12]

Maxim Franz

[13]

Shaolin Monk

Wang Wei

[14]

Māori Warrior

Sala Baker

"Well, that's what a computer says." "Computer must be Chinese... [1]

William Wallace

Kieron Elliott

[15] [16] [17]

(On pitting William Wallace against Shaka Zulu) There really is no competition. It's basically like swatting an African fly.

Anthony De Longis

[18]

• (On Shaka Zulu's spit of poison) "There's just one problem I see..." (holding claymore out in front of him) "How far can you spit chief?"

Shaka Zulu

Earl White

• (war cry) "ZULU!"

(On pitting Shaka Zulu against William Wallace) "Shaka's goal would be to get Wallace's blood on his weapon."

Jason Bartley

[19]

Jason used agility training pioneered by Shaka Zulu to become a 3-time all SCC linebacker.

• (war cry) "ZULU!"

IRA

Skoti Collins

[20] [21]

"The IRA's never been beaten by anyone - and they never will be."

Taliban

Fahim Fazli

[22]

GSG 9

Damien Puckler

[23]

Attila the Hun

Robert Borsos

"Attila was a barbarian, but he had charisma. For Hungarians, Attila is a hero and a legend."

Alexander the Great

Kendall Wells

[24] [25]

Rashad Evans

• "Alexander is the truth!"

Jesse James

Joey Dillon

[26]

J. W. Wiseman

[27]

• We got our own knife, and it aint a toothpick.

Al Capone

Johnny Lew Fratto

• "Who the f*** even needs to hit anybody with a pistol anyways? You know it's a f***ing pistol, use it as a pistol!"

Aztec Jaguar

David Lavera

[28]

Zande Warrior

Coley Mustafa Speaks

"(on the Zande winning and the Aztec losing) Sorry, Aztec warriors. Maybe next time. Nyum-nyum!" [29]

Roman Centurion

Terence Rotolo

Terence Rotolo was shown to play one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders.

Somali Pirate

Abdi Ali

"Of course we're going to win." "The Somali Pirates will fight you anywhere, on land, on sea, you name it. They'll fight you."

Medellín Cartel

Michael Corleone Blanco (Son of Florida drug boss Griselda Blanco, the Queen of Miami)

"My mother was the number one distributor of cocaine in the United States. She's the inventor of cocaine trafficking. I grew up around this constant violence on a daily basis that was considered civilized."

Kenny "Kenji" Gallo

Kenji Gallo was a porn producer and cocaine trafficker associate of the Los Angeles crime family and the New York City's Colombo crime family, both heavily affiliated with the Medellin Cartel during their reign. The FBI allowed him to spy on the crime families. Today he is under witness protection but publicly talked about his life as a rat in writing blogs, books and TV shows. Even today he testifies in court against his former gangsters, who still threaten his life today.

[30]

Persian Immortal

Ardeshir Radpour

Ardeshir is a recurring actor on deadliest warrior; playing a mongol, a roman, Hernán Cortés and other background characters. [31]

Celt

Dave Baker

In season 3, Dave Baker is the main weapons maker on Deadliest Warrior. If there is an ancient weapon that is no longer existent today, Dave will remake them from their historical blueprint.

KGB

Stass Klassen

[32]

Vlad the Impaler

Brahm Gallagher

"Vlad does not stop, he does not quit, and ultimately, the psychology, the weaponry and ferocity of that man makes him the Deadliest Warrior."

French Musketeer

Xavier Declie

"I like the Ming Warriors, but I think they should go back to where they came from and, you know, build walls. They're very good at that."

Luke Lafontaine

[33]

Navy SEAL

Rob Roy

[34]

Israeli Commando

Mike Kanarek

[35]

Saddam Hussein

Sabah Khodada (Former Iraqi Army General)

-Personally knew the dictator (The only expert to have actually meet a Named Warrior in person.)

Hernán Cortés

Jason Heck (16th Century Weapons Expert)

"He's just going to win."

Zombie

Max Brooks

Max Brooks is an American author and screenwriter specializing in zombies. His two most well-known works are The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z, which is currently being made into a motion picture to be released in December 2012.

Matt Mogk

Matt Mogk is the author of the book Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies, and founder of the Zombie Research Society, which is dedicated towards the serious study of zombie science, survival, and pop culture.