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Shadow at Morning wrote: Gladiators specifically were trained slaves. But criminals (not gladiators) would often be executed by combat, put against real gladiators or animals, often without weapons. because gladiators were property, and therefore an investment. It wouldn't be very lucrative if there were professional gladiators killed all the time, but Spartacus tends to take a lot of artistic license. Among other things.

So with Aura and such on Remnant, it probably was and still is very hard to kill someone in open combat, so evenly matched gladiators could definitely have been a thing.