gladiator COULD have killed cannonball very easily in the first encounter 😉 anybody who says cannonball won that battle, obviously didnt read the issue. gladiator stopped cannonball midblast (literally) and if he wanted to could have popped his brains out his head. or hit him then.
he toyed with cannonball and used him, exactly for the purpose he wanted to. it wasnt actually a fight. cause gladiator wasnt even fighting.