Gladiators were usually slaves, and the concept was that they would always be equivalent to property. After the fights became more popular, there were people who volunteered. The volunteers did it for the money, but what they were agreeing to was to be owned and fought without any say. Sometimes the people controlling the fights would make upper class men and women fight as well. The sponsor had the decision of letting the gladiator that lost live or die. The crowd's reaction is what influenced this, and the legendary thumbs up or down came from this. When he had fought a good fight, he could live, but most of the time, he crowd called for death.
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