Which is about as useful as saying "A grapefruit beat an orange in a zesty-fruit drink competition."
Gladiators came from any number of backgrounds with a range of martial skills and abilities over a period of hundreds of years. How did they configure their 'typical' model gladiator, just out of interest?
Mind you, an Apache armed with a Winchester rifle owns the average Gladiator wielding a cestus or trident, I suppose.
Cheers
MC
Gladiator was wielding Cestus, Scissor, Sling, and some angled sword I don't remember what it was called. Gladiator was decked out in standard armored helmet and arm armor.
Apache wielded knives, tomahawk, bow and arrow, and war club.
The dramatization at the end is just to showcase all the weapons and have kind of a suspenseful way of revealing the winner. It doesn't represent any actual battle.