>>16194224What I think is funny about what you said, being a gladiator in ancient times would actually be preferable to being an UFC fighter.
What would you rather pick, having your brain slowly stop working and be turned into mush as you get into fights where you keep getting hit over and over again and acquire brain damage from, or just having an all-in fight where you either die or not? It's a quick death over slow torture that makes your life a living hell. I mean, have you ever seen a career wrestler who wasn't fucking braindead? It kind of figures that wrestling is way more profitable, because people like following the lives of wrestlers and watch how they fall, it's not like ancient gladiator matches where if you rooted for somebody, they'd probably be dead within the next two matches or something. With UFC and whatnot, the masses get to keep following whoever appeals to them, and they keep coming back for that reason. That could actually be the reason we don't have gladiator fights legalized and happening for real, because wrestling is simply more profitable and sustainable. If somebody powerful figured that they could make more money by having gladiator matches in place of wrestling, I seriously bet that they would do it. All of this by the end of the day just comes down to making money, the controversy that would come from doing such a thing wouldn't even matter, hell, maybe that'd actually a positive factor. Or, I'm fetching it too far and public fights to the death in modern times just aren't possible without things falling apart, lol. Still, that's interesting, you'd figure that bloody fights to the death would actually appeal more to people, but no, wrestling as it is is still way more profitable. Being able to keep up with who they're interested in and see what they get up to doing, is what makes a long-term fan appear. Maybe with gladiator matches, people would just get bored after the novelty wears off and everybody they like dies too fast.
