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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Are boxing rings square?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

the ring used to be formed by spectators circling the fighters.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

cause they used to box in a circle

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Thanks.

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By *ensualfire88Man
over a year ago

Edinburgh

None of which explains why boxing rings are square...

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"None of which explains why boxing rings are square..."

Ohhh, you got me thinking again now.

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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago

Livingston


"None of which explains why boxing rings are square...

Ohhh, you got me thinking again now. "

hope it doesn't hurt too much!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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.

Isn't google great?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

it's so you can sit in the corner when the bell rings lol x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

stakes in the ground....4No....ropes...makes a square..a square circle..got something to do with Archimedes

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By *he_original_poloWoman
over a year ago

a Primark shoebox in Leicester


"None of which explains why boxing rings are square..."

Less poles required to make a square from ropes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Takes up less room? And a round ring would have too many pillars that would surely cause injury?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It would end up being a dodecahedron instead..which the common or garden pugilist would find hard to spell

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By *ensualfire88Man
over a year ago

Edinburgh


"got something to do with Archimedes"

The famous Greek Welterweight from the 1860's...?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"got something to do with Archimedes

The famous Greek Welterweight from the 1860's...?"

Eureka!

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By *ensualfire88Man
over a year ago

Edinburgh


"got something to do with Archimedes

The famous Greek Welterweight from the 1860's...?

Eureka!"

I'm not saying he was crap, but he was famous for having a cauliflower arse.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"None of which explains why boxing rings are square...

Ohhh, you got me thinking again now.

hope it doesn't hurt too much!!!!"

Who rattled your cage???

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By *tryxxCouple
over a year ago

central

cant go to the corner in a ring

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By *ensualfire88Man
over a year ago

Edinburgh


"None of which explains why boxing rings are square...

Ohhh, you got me thinking again now.

hope it doesn't hurt too much!!!!

Who rattled your cage??? "

Cage fighting is different - the Cage is intrinsic to the contest.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"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.

Isn't google great?"

Google this then:-

Why, when I finally get my head together, does my body start falling apart?

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By *ensualfire88Man
over a year ago

Edinburgh


"Why, when I finally get my head together, does my body start falling apart? "

'Finally' - the clue is in the question.

If you'd got your head together sooner, your body would be in better shape.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Why, when I finally get my head together, does my body start falling apart?

'Finally' - the clue is in the question.

If you'd got your head together sooner, your body would be in better shape."

Sad I know, but I can only work with the tools I was given.

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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago

Livingston


"Why, when I finally get my head together, does my body start falling apart?

'Finally' - the clue is in the question.

If you'd got your head together sooner, your body would be in better shape.

Sad I know, but I can only work with the tools I was given. "

and it's not that great a tool either, performance wise

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By *nvictusMan
over a year ago

Beeston


"None of which explains why boxing rings are square..."

I thought it was just me for a second then.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Why, when I finally get my head together, does my body start falling apart?

'Finally' - the clue is in the question.

If you'd got your head together sooner, your body would be in better shape.

Sad I know, but I can only work with the tools I was given.

and it's not that great a tool either, performance wise "

That hurts I tries me best.

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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago

Livingston


"Why, when I finally get my head together, does my body start falling apart?

'Finally' - the clue is in the question.

If you'd got your head together sooner, your body would be in better shape.

Sad I know, but I can only work with the tools I was given.

and it's not that great a tool either, performance wise

That hurts I tries me best. "

didn't hurt me cos I never felt a thing........

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Why, when I finally get my head together, does my body start falling apart?

'Finally' - the clue is in the question.

If you'd got your head together sooner, your body would be in better shape.

Sad I know, but I can only work with the tools I was given.

and it's not that great a tool either, performance wise

That hurts I tries me best.

didn't hurt me cos I never felt a thing........ "

Aye, come to think of it, you could do with a few "nips n` tucks" strategically placed.

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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago

Livingston


"Why, when I finally get my head together, does my body start falling apart?

'Finally' - the clue is in the question.

If you'd got your head together sooner, your body would be in better shape.

Sad I know, but I can only work with the tools I was given.

and it's not that great a tool either, performance wise

That hurts I tries me best.

didn't hurt me cos I never felt a thing........

Aye, come to think of it, you could do with a few "nips n` tucks" strategically placed. "

I'll tell him you said that lol

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By *ensualfire88Man
over a year ago

Edinburgh


"None of which explains why boxing rings are square...

I thought it was just me for a second then. "

Sharp as a tack, me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If the ring had not evolved into a square... what would the corner men be called instead? All rounders?

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