Which MMA fighters would do well in gladiator battles?

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Ancient sport of Pankration:
Only rules are no biting or eye gouging (In Sparta these techniques were allowed). Match ends when your opponent is crippled or killed, or submits. Most famous competitor is Dioxippus - a man so feared in the ring he won the 336 B.C. Olympics by default when nobody wanted to face him. Defeated a fully armed and armored Macedonian general with a club while fighting naked.
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Gladiator battles:
Spectator sport held in Roman territories for hundreds of years. Fighters were slaves taught to fight in specific roles using specific sets of equipment (Pictured below is a Murmillo but wearing a Thraex-style helmet). Famous competitor is Flamma, a Murmillo who fought for 13 years and was offered his freedom with the Rudis, but denied the offer and kept fighting until he died at age 30.
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Which modern MMA fighters do you think would do well at these life-or-death battles and why?
My pick- Aleksander Emelianenko. Why? Because we know he can kill a dude for real xD
 
Brock would be a huge draw as a gladiator.
 
Proof that no matter how eloquent a writer you are, you can still post dumb af threads.
 
Overeem and Barnett could go back in time and fit in nicely as gladiators. They got that style
 
Proof that no matter how eloquent a writer you are, you can still post dumb af threads.

Only thing dumb about this thread is your post. Pankration is the ancient equivalent of MMA, and this is a forum for MMA discussion. This is literally what forums were made for.
 
Prime Cain kills prime Dioxippus anywhere but the mountains.
 
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