Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4830106-20151026041312/@comment-24891101-20151028032454

Gladiators rarely died, actually. They were popular figures, akin to our sports stars, and brought in the money. They even did product endorsements. More than that, they were expensive to train. Not people you kill on a whim.

Condemned criminals, on the other hand, put against trained gladiators or wild beats...