ROMAN Gladiators were not at all ripped like the Hollywood heart-throbs who play them — but were actually “quite fat”, a historian has revealed. Dr Harry Sidebottom says colosseum fighters, who some believe hailed emperors before they fought to the death with the words “for those about to die, we salute you”, would try to pile on the pounds...
How real-life Gladiators ACTUALLY looked is revealed – and it’s VERY different to Russell Crowe’s Maximus
