Relevant: Chapter 6
There was an ad for a new and upcoming reality tv show involving gladiators called 'american gladiator warriors' which was supposed to be a modernized version of gladiatorial combat including following the supposed gladiators through a week of training before
Southlands: Luciva
, gladiatorial combat (brief!), shipping (mostly by leix!), and the reappearance of both cael and his elf, both of which have speaking roles this time!
Unbreakable
Looking down, he saw the wounds that gladiatorial combat and torture had inflicted on his body, felt the broken ridges of scar tissue along his smooth, hard muscles.
Post-Game Care
The stadium was huge, deliberately meant to emulated the gladiatorial battles of centuries past. the pitch was on the ground level with the stands wrapped around it with increasing height as it went further away in an oval.
Reaper: Hades - Chapter 3
You mean like the fact that the last time people playing these games had to wear suits and the games are effectively thinly veiled gladiatorial battles because the author just _loves_ sexy, muscular, barely clothed roman men wielding swords?