Competitions are always intriguing to different people, especially when there’s a little fighting involved. Hockey has many opportunities for fights, and people always seem to like watching these big brawls break out on the ice. Football is filled with hitting and tackling, but back in 250 BCE, people liked to go to arenas and watch a very gruesome “sport.” They enjoyed watching people fight, sometimes to the death, with weapons and armor, in these big arenas. These fighters were called gladiators. Gladiators lives were extremely difficult, have been a part of history for over 2,000 years, and had many different techniques in their battles. The lives of gladiators were difficult. If they were imprisoned, they were treated horrendously with no freedoms. If they were volunteer fighters, they were still treated roughly to prepare them for difficulty in the arenas. They trained in gladiator schools. This trained them for future battles, so it was a semi fair fight between two trained fighters. “However, they did have some additional perks, because they had heated floors for the winter, baths, and infirmaries” (Vergano). Over 80 gladiators lived in the training schools. There were many gladiator schools, over 100, but only a few have anything left to show for it. These schools were used for training year round, but, once it was their time to fight, they would go to an amphitheater …show more content…
Although the gladiators lead terrible lives, they will forever be renowned and remembered as the famous, brave fighters they were. They have already been a part of history for over two millennia, and they will be part of history for many more millenia to come. Not only the fighters, but their unique fighting styles, will be remembered eternally. Even when their arenas are gone, and their graveyards lost, these courageous fighters will always be