10-11-2007, 10:29 PM
Paul B said:
Quite right ! Compare Sumo wrestlers today, who can, and do, wipe the floor with any other un-armed combatant, and look at the mosaics of gladiators who often show this type of build......
Quote:I remember a TV special about Gladiators a while back that used a chemical analysis on gladiators to determine that they ate mostly barley gruel and were big heavy men, not muscled like bodybuilders with low body fat.
Quite right ! Compare Sumo wrestlers today, who can, and do, wipe the floor with any other un-armed combatant, and look at the mosaics of gladiators who often show this type of build......
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
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