Gladiators are people who fought to the death, to entertain roman's they called it the blood sport. A gladiator battle would be for funerals as a sacrifice, but then they fought for the fun. Rome was called the mob because of the blood sport.
The first gladiator game was in 256 B.C., for Junius Brutus Pera in their families honor after he had died. Gladiator games were one of the most popular days of the year for romans.
Gladiators worked hard to become gladiators they had to go to school and toughen up, they had to battle people, with wooden swords, and you had to cut and rip open bags…
