"He is something of an anomaly among the giants of Torah study as, according to the Babylonian Talmud, he was supposed to have been in his early youth a bandit and a gladiator"

Saw this wild thread, which seems to follow the Wikipedia entries about the men:

ok I mean I'm still an Eliezar ben Hyrcanus stan, but my new favorite Talmud rabbi guy is the muscley bisexual former gladiator & bandit king Resh Lakish, whom I tragically ship with the (canonically!) hot & well hung Rabbi Yochanan

— Benjamin Rosenbaum (@ben_rosenbaum) August 11, 2019