To accept the offer, you will have to select one of the following six gladiator classes to fight as. Your opponent will be of the opposing class that is commonly paired with your choice, e.g. murmillo vs. murmillo or retiatrius vs. secutor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murmillo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retiarius

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secutor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thraex

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scissor_(gladiator)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplomachus

You are not allowed to change to a different class if, let's say, a month into training you decide you are not that great as a secutor. You will be provided with historically accurate (as reasonably close as you can get anyway) replicas of all the necessary equipment for your chosen class. You can use your equipment in the real fight.

If you win, you are transported back to the present and receive 100 million dollars tax free.

For a reduced prize of 50 million dollars, you can choose to go back in time 30 days before your scheduled fight and use the last 30 of your 365 days to train at the famed Ludus Magnus gladiator school. You will be given special one-on-one instruction with a former professional gladiator each day and pampered in the Roman spas each night. You will also have the chance to scope out the arena beforehand and get the lay of the land.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580688&forum_id=2#40579037)

you are weak compared. no modern person absent some sentinalese/bushman could compete

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580688&forum_id=2#40579406)

They were the rock stars of their era and ate better than 100% of the plebians and most of the aristocracy, but nothing close to optimal based on the following 2000 years of sport science.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580688&forum_id=2#40579566)

https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/581/fitness_has_fallen_since_the_days_of_ancient_greece

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580688&forum_id=2#40621952)

also everyone id be fighting would probably be shorter and smaller

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580688&forum_id=2#40579120)

there isn’t a single person alive who wouldn’t get destroyed.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580688&forum_id=2#40579369)

i personally think it wouldn't work, but maybe could subcontract the job out to like a Giannis Antetokounmpo type. I'd just take a 10% commission.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580688&forum_id=2#40579427)

The loophole. Nothing says you can't modify your historically accurate equipment. I use a spear or some other shit with a long handle, hollow it out, and create the equivalent of a disguised sawed off shotgun. You have a lot of time to covertly modify your weapons and armor with modern technology.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580688&forum_id=2#40580694)

*sees gladiator charge at you*

"wait time out!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580688&forum_id=2#40580871)

Like wahts teh different between the 2 heavy classes?

Why would one heavy class fight a net adn trident guy and not hte other heavy class?

What's the trope o the net and trident guy (fish theme?) How are they different than the different fast guy?

any scholarship?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580688&forum_id=2#40580806)

early gladiator fights were usually mirror matchups, e.g. murmillo vs. murmillo.

the differences are subtle for the heavily armored guys, but in general they were supposed to be stylized versions of Roman enemies. for example, the hoplomachus was based on the Greek hoplite. the murmillo was supposed to resemble a Roman legionary.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580688&forum_id=2#40580857)

so is it totally style based or did some classes dominate others?

re: hard to breathe thru helm, could you take off your helm if you wanted? whats the point of being heavily armored if your opponent isnt and its a hindrance?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580688&forum_id=2#40580874)

interestingly enough, the retiarius is thought to have been slightly favored over the secutor based on some surviving odds published by gladiatorial bookmakers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580688&forum_id=2#40580884)

The gladiator's lack of armour and his reliance on evasive tactics meant that many considered the retiarius the lowliest (and most effeminate) of the gladiators, an already stigmatised class.

In some battles, a single retiarius faced two secutores simultaneously. For these situations, the lightly armoured gladiator was placed on a raised platform and given a supply of stones with which to repel his pursuers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580688&forum_id=2#40581110)

my life isn't that 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580688&forum_id=2#40615782)

the secutor's helm was intentionally fully enclosed with only small opening for two eye slots to avoid getting stabbed in the face with the trident. you wouldn't want to take it off.

also keep in mind the secutor's weapon was a shortsword significantly outranged by the trident/net combo. you need the armor to survive the push inward and also to defend yourself in the event that you become ensnared in the net.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580688&forum_id=2#40580918)

the strategy would be to spend the entire year learning the best way to run AWAY from the secutor by doing tons of endurance training + learn a few kill moves with the trident

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580688&forum_id=2#40615797)