User blog comment:Thundrtri/Season 2 episode 14: Venator (Gladiator Animal Fighters) VS Smilodon (Saber tooth tiger)/@comment-422690-20130625023148

Overall, I think the Venators would win. Smilodon fatalis was a predator who relied on stealth and a sudden strike rather than an attack in the arena. Their advantage of numbers may also work against them - they are theorized to be very solitary predators, and may fight amongst each other rather than combating the Venators.

On top of that, Humans with lesser technology had driven the Smilodons to extinction. Two warriors with metal weapons and - most importantly - armor can make short work of them. Their longer front teeth were susceptible to breaking, and that nice metal shield would do the trick nicely.

Even with all that, the Venators have spears. Those will easily keep the Smilodons at bay, and even if they close there's that extremely sharp Gladius to combat a broken set of teeth. The Smilodons are outclassed, pure and simple.