Why is a Boxing Ring Called a Ring (?)

You clearly don't know history.

Greeks invented boxing. Even had boxing champions who were very popular among people.

 

Okay, I'll have to tell my expert professor that he was totally wrong about it when he explained the Illiad to us. I'm sure he'll bow down to your knowledge of ancient Greece. It isn't like he's a leading expert on it or anything. :roll:

 

Perhaps we didn't know that boxing was actually invented in the rough streets of Philadelphia?

 

Yes. The Illiad. A guy puts his hand on a mule. Says I'll fight anyone for it. Some guy steps forward. They swing at each other a few times. One guy gets knocked out. The other takes the mule home.

Just like Ali-Frazier 1.

Yes, people have always fought for things with their hands. Toddlers do it. Instinctively.

It's not boxing. Gladiators weren't boxers. The boxing we're talking about came later. It wasn't called THE RING because of a coliseum.

IT was called THE RING in a boxing because when people boxed each other, the people watching formed a ring around them.

That's all I'm saying. I know people fought with their hands throughout the history of man.

The question was about boxing rings.

 

They didn't invent boxing. That's like saying the Romans invented eating.

Human beings have always fought for things with their hands. Whatever the Greeks were doing wasn't boxing. IT was just two guys fighting with their hands. And they didn't do it in something called THE RING.

That's my f*cking point.

 

They did invent boxing as a sport. They fought with gloves and leather straps and there were boxing tournaments and boxing champions.

Among others, Glaucus of Carystus was a famous multiple times boxing champion.

You cannot just appear and randomly take away credit where the credit is due.

 

It's a word. Boxing. The sport of FOOTBALL in Australia means something very different than sport of football in the U.S.

That doesn't make them the same thing. Even though they are called the same thing.

Do you consider the MMA and Boxing the same thing? Because what they were doing back then more closely resembled MMA than boxing.

That's for sure.

And, again, this has nothing to do with the question asked. They didn't call what the Gladiators fought in THE RING.

 

That is a very bad ana logy. Like I said, you cannot take away credit where the credit is due.

But you are right, it's the ring what's being discussed here, not boxing.

 

apologize to the greeks for discrediting them!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

It's not bad. Just because they used the word boxing to describe something back then doesn't mean it was the invention of the sport we have today.

What they referred to as boxing and what we refer to as boxing are radically different things.

And they never called what their "boxers" faced off in as "THE RING."

That's the only reason why I commented. Forget I said anything.

Sure, the Romans or Greeks or JESUS invented it. Whatever you guys want to believe. I'm going to bed.

:hi:

 

I've decided Jesus invented boxing. He invented it when he roughed up the merchants selling in the temple.

Smacked them around good. Boxed their ears ... I believe it's referred to in one of the translated texts.:good

 

you are going to get Greeked for that fella :smoke

 

I am pretty sure it has something to do with that Johnny Cash song.

 

Doesn't everything?:thumbsup

 

:think