Why is a boxing ring called a ring? It's sometimes referred to as the squared circle, but when the damn sport was invented, why didn't they just call it a square or box to begin with? Just curious! :think
they used to be a circle, thus the circle was called the RING, the circle was made of the ropes, then they made the circle square but kept the ropes and just kept calling it the RING,, that is my GUESS, I really have no clue
Super Hans the ultra Brit should answer this. This is from his backyard. All I know is that the red and blue started from the different color rags the gangs would wear on each side of the fight. Marquise of Queensberry made the ring and rules.
Because, in the early days, there was no ring. The crowd watching just formed a circle or a ring around the combatants. Thus, the fighters fought inside the ring (of people).
The gladiators weren't boxers. Just like the first guys who slugged each other because they were ****ed, and someone clapped, weren't boxers. Prizefighting/boxing began later. It was simply that people naturally formed a circle around the people boxing. People do it instinctively when watching others fist fight.
Boxing was invented as a sport in ancient Greece and was present on Crete and mainland Greece in the 2nd millennium BC. It was one of the sports held at Funeral games for fallen heroes in Greece during the 2nd millennium BC. It became an Olympic sport in the 7th century BC.
Numbskull? You can take basically every sport on earth today and say the Greeks or the Romans did "something" like that centuries ago. That doesn't mean they actually played those sports. I've read plenty of goofy books that try to date boxing back to Greeks or Romans. It wasn't.