09-19-2012, 01:20 AM
I was thinking the same thing, but stranger things have survived the ages since Rome.
I'm getting the impression that gladiatorial combat was something like minor league baseball or hockey: decentralized, without a large umbrella organization like the UFC, NHL, or MLB. Perhaps if it had gone national (or... imperial?) there would have been better records, and we could know who the Rocky Marciano, Walter Payton, or Anderson Silva of the gladiatorial games would have been.
I'm getting the impression that gladiatorial combat was something like minor league baseball or hockey: decentralized, without a large umbrella organization like the UFC, NHL, or MLB. Perhaps if it had gone national (or... imperial?) there would have been better records, and we could know who the Rocky Marciano, Walter Payton, or Anderson Silva of the gladiatorial games would have been.
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