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Uh … define “gladiator fight.”Do you mean a one on one fight to the death? Or an exhibition match that happens to be fought with live weapons?Most actual gladiator matches, as you probably know, were not fought to the death. Generally both men left the arena alive. It was a weird custom: the fact that the weapons and blood were real was plainly a crucial part of the draw, and that seems rather bloodthirsty to modern eyes. But the combatants weren’t necessarily trying to kill each other (not that death matches never happened, or that people didn’t die in regular matches), and the whole “which is better, weapon X or weapon Y?” element was also a huge part of the draw, which has a distinctly NEEEEEEEEEERDS undertone in modern terms.If you mean a plain old death match between two men armed with hand weapons, then my answer is spear, because I like fencing with spears better than with halberds/bills/poleaxes.If you mean a mixed weapon exhibition match with live weapons, a spear won’t do, because it’s too boring and it’s too easy to accidentally kill someone with a polearm. I think I’d pick a sidesword for this kind of fight, because you can play it up well and deliver non lethal cuts relatively easily.

This answer may contain sensitive images. Click on an image to unblur it.I'll cast a vote for Ota Benga.Ota was born circa 1883 in what was then the Congo Free State, a member of the Mbuti, a tribe of pygmies. He had a difficult youth, married young, and had two children, but when King Leopold of Belgium's Force Publique attacked the Mbuti, Ota's wife and children were killed. Ota survived only because he was away from his village on a hunting expedition, but he was later captured by Lele slave traders.Ota Benga, 1904:In 1904, an American businessman named Samuel Phillips Verner traveled to Africa looking for pygmies to be part of an exhibition at the St. Louis World Fair. When he discovered Ota in slavery, Verner negotiated his release for a bolt of cloth and a pound of salt. He then freed Ota. The two men bonded while traveling together, as Ota credited Verner with saving his life, and Ota agreed to return to the U.S. with Verner for the fair; he also convinced 4 Batwa men (the Batwa being another pygmy tribe) to come along.S.P. Verner:Ota, who had an outgoing personality and fine sense of humor, was a big hit at the fair, and he enjoyed meeting fairgoers. He had filed his teeth down to points, a practice not uncommon among the Mbuti, and charged people 5 cents to see them. Crowds gathered. But Verner, who had been ill with malaria when Ota and the other Africans had been brought to St. Louis and so had not accompanied them, was distressed to find upon his arrival that they seemed to him more like prisoners, and were mobbed by people wherever they went.Ota accompanied Verner back to Congo, but his tribe had been decimated and scattered. He joined a group of Batwa and took a Batwa wife, but she died of snakebite. Ota was unhappy, feeling he didn’t fit in with the Batwa. He asked to return to the U.S. with Verner.Verner secured Ota a job and a place to stay at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City before leaving to tend to business. Ota enjoyed the job at first, but his employers treated and presented him as a savage, which soon began to wear on him, leading him to opt to exploit that presentation and get up to mischief. Soon, Verner decided it was necessary to find Ota another home and job.The next stop for Ota was the Bronx Zoo in 1906. He was initially hired to help maintain the animal habitats; he had been thrilled to see African animals again. But soon, he began to attract more attention from zoo patrons than the animals did.That’s when zoo director William Hornaday decided to make Ota an exhibit at the zoo. Ota was put in a “habitat” at the Monkey House alongside an orangutan and a chimpanzee.You read that right — a human being was exhibited in the Monkey House at the Bronx Zoo.Promotional photo of Ota at the zoo, 1906:Inevitably, outrage was sparked, notably among a group of black clergymen. Said Reverend James H. Gordon: “Our race, we think, is depressed enough, without exhibiting one of us with the apes ... We think we are worthy of being considered human beings, with souls."The New York Times defended the decision to exhibit Ota with an editorial including this mind-boggling tidbit:“We do not quite understand all the emotion which others are expressing in the matter ... It is absurd to make moan over the imagined humiliation and degradation Benga is suffering. The pygmies ... are very low in the human scale, and the suggestion that Benga should be in a school instead of a cage ignores the high probability that school would be a place ... from which he could draw no advantage whatever. The idea that men are all much alike except as they have had or lacked opportunities for getting an education out of books is now far out of date.”Still, Ota was removed from the Monkey House and once again had free run of the zoo’s grounds, but he was not happy. He continued to be mischievous and was at times even violent.Verner had tried to find another place for Ota — both men agreed that it was best for him to stay in the U.S. — but was unsuccessful. Finally, Ota was released into the custody of Reverend Gordon. Gordon eventually relocated Ota to Lynchburg, Virginia. His teeth were capped and he was provided with modern American clothing, and he was enrolled in school and tutored in English. However, once his English had improved enough for him to communicate more easily, Ota opted to quit school. He took a job at a tobacco factory, where he was well liked by his coworkers (who nicknamed him “Bingo”) and valued as an employee.But Ota missed Africa, and began planning a return home. It was not to be. In 1914 came World War I, which halted the travel of passenger ships. Ota would not be able to go home.He grew depressed, and on March 20, 1916, aged 32, he built a ceremonial fire, pried the caps from his teeth, and shot himself in the heart. He was buried in an unmarked grave in the black section of Lynchburg’s Old City Cemetery.In his short life, Ota Benga suffered loss after loss, indignity after indignity. His wife and children, then his home, then his tribe, then his freedom, then another wife, then his very humanity.Ota Benga - WikipediaHeartbreaking Facts About Human Zoo Exhibit Ota Benga

As Feifei Wang mentioned baring their chest skin and carefully sculpted muscles is not really sexualizing a character. That's just an exhibition of their macho-ness.Female heroines are sexualized, even when they are completely clad; just by drawing them in incredibly uncomfortable erotic poses (almost every time). Moreover, women are almost always shown like this. Rather female super-villains are shown to be even more objectified (kinky, dominatrix etc). Clearly, superhero comics have been designed to cater to male audiences.Having said that, there have been very few attempts at sexualizing male heroes one of them being Marvel's Swimsuit Cover Series (which had females too) :Spider-Man:Captain America:Colossus:But the sad part is; male superheroes are only sexualized during an occasional event whereas sexualizing female superheroes is so regular it is almost a force of habit for artists.