GLADITORIAL FIGHTING....LIVE!

In Roman times people would gather to watch gladiators battle in arena’s fighting both man and beast in a orgy of deadly excitement, the atmosphere in one of these arena’s would have been over whelming.

Razor sharp swords swinging widely, axes crashing down slicing through entire limbs and blood splattering! The crowd cheering each swing of the blade, yearning for their favourite warrior to gain victory or the upper hand!

That rush of excitement as a wild beast is let loose…charging into the arena facing the gladiators whose fear beacons upon the sweat filled brow.

Now what’s on TV? X-factor, Britain’s got Talent and Celebrities dancing either in some ballroom or on ice which by the way isn’t dancing its called ice skating!

An endless line of hopeful talentless people attempting to gain your vote during which they babble some trifle about how their families have been affected by some incident then after murdering a song a presenter announces the phone lines are open.

You spend weeks voting for your favourite singer, dancer or what ever the hell the persons doing juggling midgets and a bar stool perhaps.

the judges

And eventually after weeks of raking in a fortune, there’s two left…it’s a showdown! Two people facing off against each other singing for your votes at the end of which the person you vote to win ends up having a short career highlighted by a Christmas number one or a variety show appearances whilst some twat you never voted for, left early or plainly wasn’t talented enough enjoys a long career badgering the public with their ill talented performances!

It seems to me that television has taken a deadly route and now its time for change, anyone who wants to sing on television can do so whilst a sword swings cutting off their head or arm.

Think you can dance? Well let’s see you break dance whilst archers black out the sun and 1000 arrows come raining down!

A lass let us not forget the people such as Simon Cowell throw them into an arena unleash a pack of hungry wolves or blood thirsty lions whom shall rip their flesh from their bodies in a flurry of bloody excitement.

For me Gladiatorial fighting should return although I’m just one man tired of Saturday night television…make up your own minds.

Blubbering people singing, dancing or doing some pointless form of art?

Or Gladiators, wild beasts and criminals been torn to pieces?