Why is a boxing ring called a ring when it is quite obviously square?

Question

Does anyone know why?

Answer 1

why is blue blue?

Answer 2

The fight starts and ends with the bell.

Answer 3

back in the day people would form circles around the 2 fighters- thus creating a "ring"

Answer 4

good question if u figure that out tell me.......really tell me its not a joke>  thats stupid "why is blue blue?''

Answer 5

thats a great question...

Answer 6

good question although i doubt there is an answer....

Answer 7

It's just a figure of speech

Answer 8

a ring is not always round

Answer 9

Have you ever seen any movies about or that have 'old time' boxing scenes in them?

In the early days of professional fist fighting, Groups of fighters would travel from town to town challenging the local men. The fighters would arrange a few of the spectators in a circle and have them hold a ring of rope. Any man wishing to challenge one of the boxers would "toss his hat into the ring." The bout would then take place in this early boxing "ring."

As the number of spectators increased, the hand-held ring no longer sufficed, and it became necessary to fashion an enclosure by attaching ropes to stakes driven into the ground. Four stakes were normally used, which produced a square enclosure, but it continued to be called a boxing ring.

Watch "Any Which Way But Loose" with Clint Eastwood and "Any Which Way You Can". He travels around fighting dudes and when he starts to fight, all the guys gather around the two guys in a ring.

and from Wiki Answers:

Because boxers used to fight in a circle drawn on the floor, called the ring. This name stuck

Answer 10

Ive been boxing for 8 years already and that never came to me. Very good question man. I marked this questions as interseting.

I would say that a boxer got hit hard in the head and he did not know the difference of a ring and a square lol. So he named it the opposite

Good luck finding the answer

Answer 11

In the early days of professional fist fighting, Groups of fighters would travel from town to town challenging the local men. The fighters would arrange a few of the spectators in a circle and have them hold a ring of rope. Any man wishing to challenge one of the boxers would "toss his hat into the ring." The bout would then take place in this early boxing "ring."

As the number of spectators increased, the hand-held ring no longer sufficed, and it became necessary to fashion an enclosure by attaching ropes to stakes driven into the ground. Four stakes were normally used, which produced a square enclosure, but it continued to be called a boxing ring.

Answer 12

why is it (pi) (r) squared.....pi is round :)))

Answer 13

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 in 1743, which specifed 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. That ring was specified as 24 feet square and bound by two ropes. For these and other reasons, the boxing ring is commonly humorously referred to as the "square circle."-)

Answer 14

thats an lol question