Big Jay Oakerson
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It did happen once in a while, but that was more rare when you see an actual death.
So occasionally they would fight for real to the death?
I don't even, yeah, I'm sure occasionally they did.
From my gladiator training program.
Really?
Yeah.
The guy's certified.
I mean, what are you gonna do argue?
But like the different weapons and the costumes they would wear and like the type of armor they would wear is like there was like You know whatever like you know a couple dozen different types of guys and like oh That's the guy with the fucking mace and like a certain helmet And it was like it was free as well all the people in Rome there wasn't a ticket price the government would sponsor it so it was just to get people like you know keep them happy and Fucking the richer you were the closer you were like all the peasants would be up in the rafters right and
So the movie Gladiators is bullshit?
Is that what you're trying to tell me?
Yeah, a lot of it's bullshit.
There was no thumbs down, thumbs up.
But they were like celebrities.
Like the gladiators would come out and they were like-
Well, they would die of their injuries very often.
It wasn't like it was flight to the death.
They just didn't have medicine.
Like, yeah, they would get stabbed and infected.
But that, I mean, when he's talking about the water, they would fill it up with water and have boat fights.