Doubtful. Consider how condemned gladiators were treated: The body of a gladiator who had died well was placed on a couch of Libitina and removed with dignity

Doubtful. Consider how condemned gladiators were treated: The body of a gladiator who had died well was placed on a couch of Libitina and removed with dignity to the arena morgue, where the corpse was stripped of armour, and probably had its throat cut to prove that dead was dead. The Christian author Tertullian, commenting on ludi meridiani in Roman Carthage during the peak era of the games, describes a more humiliating method of removal. One arena official, dressed as the "brother of Jove", Dis Pater (god of the underworld) strikes the corpse with a mallet. Another, dressed as Mercury, tests for life-signs with a heated "wand"; once confirmed as dead, the body is dragged from the arena.[108] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator#Death_and_disposal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator#Death_and_disposal