He was a legend because he killed his opponents with an elegant stroke.
When the Dancer had finally retired from the Arena, he had become a Crimelord in the Pit, welding the poor and the gladiators into an army with which he assaulted Cynosure.
The Dancer’s War
The Dancer’s War was still a legend and his top men were cornered in an old building which was then burned to the ground. There was even a song about how they pulled the charred corpses from it afterwards to feed the ravens.