Like do you think the net guys were doing the roman equivalent of shit talking the guy who was named after a fish? Do you think the gladiators who fought in “Gaulish” or “Thracian” style had Iron Sheikh like personas?
Don’t let this post distract you from the fact that in LXIX BCE, Ille Vespillonis threw Genus Humanum off Infernum In Celulum, and plummeted 16 pes through an announcer’s table.
Vincius McManius is a dipshit.
Hulkus Hoganus is a snitch and union buster.
Hog anus
Probably yeah, but I always think about the thing Patrick Wyman says, that we always think of gladiators as a contest between sporting equals, even when we learn that a bunch of it was more like professional wrestling than actual combat, but at the end of the day a lot of gladiatorial stuff was watching like 5 professional guys with weapons murder 25 prisoners without them, or torment and then kill a bunch of exotic animals, it was way more depressing and fucked up.
IIRC some conquered populations initially revolted upon seeing roman gladiatorial games, and needed extensive romanization before they began enjoying them
Maximus Decimus Meridius showed that if you are good enough, you can change from a heel to a face.
I dont just think that, its an historical fact.
MFW I got a XXXIII and I/III chance after they throw Kurt Angle, the Greek trigonometry gladiator, into the mix.
100%
They were entertainers and athletes, you just know they’d use current events or sentiments in their shows.
Gladiator and Sadiator
Beanis style gladiators that liked love and peace were banned which lead to the fall of Rome. They wanted to keep it all for themselves and they rejected the teachings of beanio of lovingus.
