Are there a lot of historical examples of fighting to the death

It still happens at gypsy camps near me and I live in the Home Counties.

>>1404763
knife fights?

>>1404806
Nah. Usually unarmed.

>>1404746
While the Romans were the meme with their elaborate Games, they weren't the last people.

Early half of the medieval age, Tournaments were quite literally battles in which people died or could die. You could die on a lance or get brained ina melee. In China, the Lei Tai (fighting platforms) hosted mostly martial arts combat and dummy weapons, but the highlight of any Lei Tai was a grudge duel between two olffended parties with real weapons. Since Chinese law demanded duels to take place in public locations so as not to make it a murder.