>>16099202If they were pros, yeah. Most of them were combat slaves and former soldiers, so they'd make agreements to keep the wounds shallow and draw it out for the crowd to give each other time to get over in the hopes they'd be spared at the end. Since you had to pay out a fee to the owner of the gladiator if they were executed, if they put on any kind of decent fight they'd get let go.
If it was an execution or some mudshow shit like blinding two retards and tying swords to their hands they were usually expecting someone to die/get seriously wounded.
