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GREGATRON. half man, half machine, half champion...all American.
Interests. wall ball, throwing knives into heaven, Guitar Heroing, training to be a Ninja Warrior, bagels, fighting russell crowe, learning a perfect new zealand accent, finding a way to stop department stores, outrunning cheetahs, being an active member in the Steve Zissou Life Aquatic Society, becoming a jedi, having a real-life montage,resurrecting Saturday morning cartoons, giant robots, writing to destroy, david carradine
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You might also be interested in a few similar shows on the History Channel. There's one called Warriors with Terry Schappert, where he picks a group of warriors from around the globe each week and dissects their battle styles, tactics, and all sorts of stuff. I saw an episode on William Wallace-era Scottish dudes and it was very interesting.
There's also Battles B.C., which takes on a specific battle and goes crazy in-depth, giving you all sorts of maps, diagrams, and political/historical context. I saw one where it discussed Caesar's siege on a city in Gaul, and found it fascinating.
But if the Gladiator had access to Smallpox riddled blankets, wouldn't it make the whole point moot?
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Hee hee hee. History jokes and genocide. Awesome. Awesome.
it's not quite pirates vs ninjas like i would have hoped, but it's close enough.
Pirate v. Ninja might not be out of the question. i saw a preview with a ninja in it, so the age-old question might get answered.
but yeah i saw gladiator vs apache. the little fight at the end was bullshit tho. the gladiator just stopped to showboat like 3 times when he could have killed the shit out of the appache. but whatever man, SCIENCE.
A lot of moves in professional wrestling are intended to not only avoid inflicting serious pain that they look like they should, but also to showoff, to an extent. Though most of the showing off is done during the pre/post-battle scenes, there are some people who will showboat and otherwise drop his guard, and take a chair to the head.
Gladiators were pretty much assumed to die in every single battle they participated in. If you lived, great! You'll have your chance to die next time. And, since you're gonna meet your end in the ring, why not give the audience a good show? There's more to it than outright killing. Would people be so interested in pro wrestling if it was straight combat? Perhaps, but not to the degree that they are with the storylines and other crap involved.
Gladiator fights for entertainment. Apache fights for survival/defense of his territory. Gives the Apache a bit of an edge, maybe.