User blog comment:Thundrtri/Season 2 episode 14: Venator (Gladiator Animal Fighters) VS Smilodon (Saber tooth tiger)/@comment-3189283-20130626192127

The Venators are going to win this battle for a number of reasons. Firstly, they have experiance fighting simular sized and behaviorally based creatures to the smilodon, these being tigers and lions and such and while these creatures are not as powerful as the smildon it's still valuable experiance. The smilodon is unlikely to have come up against enemies simular to the Venator on a regular basis

The weaponry they are using also gives them a distinct advantage. The spear allows them to keep the smilodon at bay and the net could be a critical factor as the smilodon would have never seen anything like it and while it's scrambling about trying to free itself the venator has oppourtunity to deliver a lethal blow.

Finally the "Formidable" and famed sabre teeth that the smilodon posses are actually very fragile and weak and smilodons often took care when eating prey because if they bite down too hard on a bone it could snap the teeth. This would make it very easy for the venator to simply smash a tooth or two with his spear and while the smilodon is yelping in pain and suprise and launch a counter attack.

To summarize the Venator's have the better and more useful weaponry, the better teamwork and the experiance in dealing with simular enemies to help pull them through comfortably.

Venator: 3,900

Smilodon: 1,100