Entertainment to the emperor and nobles of that time. Many mock battles happened there.
For the most part public entertainment, the coliseum* was also used to represent the wealth and intelligence of Rome.
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Other gladiators, wild animals and condemned criminals.
Yes they did fight in the Coliseum
No the Romans would not be bored, for the coliseum is where people/gladiators fighted for there life. I suppose it amused them.
The Flavian Amphitheater in Rome, better known as the Coliseum
The Coliseum, and similar arenas throughout the empire.
The coliseum was built as a venue for special games and events. The favourite of these special games was the gladiators, whether they be fighting animals or Christian slaves, or convicts.
Contests between gladiators were held in the Colosseum.
Gladiators had fought in the Roman Colosseum, and in other provinces of significant size. For example, in what is now known as Croatia, there still stands a Roman arena used for gladiatorial combat. Gladiators also fought wild beasts, killed prisoners, and performed other acts of violence witnessed by millions of people over the hundreds of years the Roman Republic and Empire existed.
Slaves made up about 40% of Rome's history. Gladiators fought in the Coliseum. The Leaning Tower of Pisa originally was not leaning.
There were acrobatics in the morning then animal fighting in the afternoon, next in the evening there were gladiators that fight each other to the death and finally at night there was exotic dancers-both men and women but mostly women-then the coliseum opened again the next day.