His combat with Verus was the highlighted entertainment of the opening day games sponsored by Titus to inaugurate the Flavian Amphitheatre in AD 80.
It was recorded in a laudatory poem by Martial — Liber Spectaculorum is the only known detailed description to survive of a gladiatorial fight.
Martial described the fight in Liber de Spectaculis 29: As Priscus and Verus each drew out the contest and the struggle between the pair long stood equal, shouts loud and often sought discharge for the combatants.
[4] The dramatized documentary by the BBC (2003) about the opening of games at the Colosseum featured the historical Priscus and Verus match.
Priscus and Verus also play a role in Adventure Time's "Morituri Te Salutamus" (season 3, episode 2) in which they fight the show's heroes, Finn and Jake, as ghosts of their former selves seeking their freedom.