if boxing rings are square, then why call it a boxing ring??

Answer 1

well yeah that is stupid huh!!

Answer 2

The boxing ring is the space in which a boxing match occurs. A modern ring is square, set on a raised platform and bound around with four parallel rows of rope attached to posts at each corner of the ring. Currently professional contests have to have an international standard ring. However there are a number of different international standards.

The name ring is an atavism from when contests were fought in a roughly drawn circle on the ground, the name ring continued with the Jack Broughton rules (1743) specifying a small circle in the centre of the fight area where the boxers met at the start of each round. The first square ring was introduced by the Pugilistic Society in 1838, the ring was specified as 24 feet square and bound by two ropes.

Answer 3

A ring doesn't mean that it is of a particular shape, like circular for instance.
Usually a 'ring' is for a circular enclosure. However, just as in boxing it has been broadened to mean an enclosed area (often circular, not necessarily) for contests, exhibitions, etc

Hope that answers it well....

Answer 4

They used to be round, but when they changed i am not sure , sometime when a corner was needed to sit in between bouts , but again that's odd because that kept going till one could not get up hence queens bury rules started, read the book call the Nobel art

Answer 5

boxing rings were in the days of old were in circle rings, the name stuck when queensbury had his way

Answer 6

Because not all rings are square.

Answer 7

Are you trying to us LOGIC in this day and age???? Shame on you!!!! Good question!!

Answer 8

rink