From the Colosseum to the Squared Circle: Why Wrestling Never Stopped Being Gladiatorial

Strip away the pyro, the entrance music, and the folding chairs, and professional wrestling is still doing what it’s always done: staging combat for a paying crowd. That’s not a knock on the business. It’s the same instinct that packed Roman amphitheaters two thousand years ago, and it’s why the line between “ancient spectacle” and […] The post From the Colosseum to the Squared Circle: Why Wrestling Never Stopped Being Gladiatorial appeared first on Wrestling Headlines.