GLADIATOR NAME Justice
ROAD TO DESTRUCTION Columbia, S.C.'s Justice Jesse Smith, 34, played basketball in Switzerland for four years before turning to modeling, acting — ''One of my friends was like, 'Big black bad guy?' That's you!'' — and the K-1 martial arts fight league. ''I'm 6'8,'' 290 lbs., twisted steel with beat-down skills,'' he says. ''I wear a size 17 shoe. I have a wingspan of 7 feet. Arms are 22 inches.'' Oh god. ''Yes, ma'am. 'Oh god,' is right.''
YOU DON'T WANT TO MEET HIM IN... Gauntlet. But if you do, hope you're the contestant who goes first. ''Because see, I'll get the kinks worked out, and the second guy will get it,'' he says.
MOST UN-GLADIATOR THING ABOUT HIM? ''I love my four-year-old French bulldog [Bruno] very much,'' he says. Then laughs. ''I never thought that you could actually feel that way towards an animal.''
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