why a boxing ring is called a ring when it is a square?
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I can't phrase it better than Wikipedia:\n\n"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."
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The term "ring" comes from the original practice of having a circle of spectators form a ring around the two contestants. Often a rope would be held by the crowd to designate the area the fighters would have to move around. There weren't even stools, since the fights were usually outdoors and in isolated areas, so one of the fighter's supporters, called a "second", would kneel with one knee on the ground and the other up to form a seat for the resting fighter between rounds. Also, since boxing was illegal almost everywhere in its early days, if the "proper authorities" dropped in uninvited, the spectators simply dropped the rope and ran in every direction. The police might round up a few of the slow footed, but all the promoters would be out would be the cost of a rope.\nMost scoring systems today is on a 10 point must system. \n\n10-point must system, where the winner of the round must be awarded 10 points. 10-9 is a typical score for a round. A 10-8 or 10-7 round usually indicates there's been at least one knockdown or the action was severely lopsided. The referee can deduct points for fouls.\n\nThe judges judge a round on clean punching, effective aggression, ring generalship, and defense.\n\nThe Marquess of Queensberry rules are a code of popularly accepted rules in the sport of boxing. They were named so because John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry publicly endorsed the code.\n\nThe boxing code was written by John Graham Chambers in 1865 and published in 1867 as "the Queensberry rules for the sport of boxing". This code of rules superseded the Revised London Prize Ring rules (1853), which had themselves replaced the original London Prize Ring rules (1743) of Jack Broughton. This version persuaded boxers that "you must not fight simply to win; no holds barred is not the way; you must win by the rules" (17, sect. 5, pt. 1).\n\nThe first prize fight under Marquess of Queensberry rules took place in Cincinnati, Ohio August 29th 1885. John L. Sullivan defeated his opponent, Dominick McCaffery in the sixth round.\n\nThe Marquess of Queensbury Rules:\n\n1. To be a fair stand-up boxing match in a 24-foot ring, or as near that size as practicable.\n2. No wrestling or hugging allowed.\n3. The rounds to be of three minutes' duration, and one minute's time between rounds.\n4. If either man falls through weakness or otherwise, he must get up unassisted, 10 seconds to be allowed him to do so, the other man meanwhile to return to his corner, and when the fallen man is on his legs the round is to be resumed and continued until the three minutes have expired. If one man fails to come to the scratch in the 10 seconds allowed, it shall be in the power of the referee to give his award in favour of the other man.\n5. A man hanging on the ropes in a helpless state, with his toes off the ground, shall be considered down.\n6. No seconds or any other person to be allowed in the ring during the rounds.\n7. Should the contest be stopped by any unavoidable interference, the referee to name the time and place as soon as possible for finishing the contest; so that the match must be won and lost, unless the backers of both men agree to draw the stakes.\n8. The gloves to be fair-sized boxing gloves of the best quality and new.\n9. Should a glove burst, or come off, it must be replaced to the referee's satisfaction.\n10. A man on one knee is considered down and if struck is entitled to the stakes.\n11. No shoes or boots with springs allowed.\n12. The contest in all other respects to be governed by revised rules of the London Prize Ring.
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square-ish in shape\ncome in different sizes\nmany varieties
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each ring represents one of the five continents involved in the olympics at the time of its creation.\nalso, all the countries involved could make their flag out of the colors used for the rings and thier white background.
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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.
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It is called a Hendecagon.\n\nName Sides \nTriangle (or trigon) 3 \nQuadrilateral (or tetragon) 4 \nPentagon 5 \nHexagon (or sexagon) 6 \nHeptagon (avoid "septagon") 7 \nOctagon 8 \nEnneagon (or "nonagon") 9 \nDecagon 10 \nHendecagon (avoid "undecagon") 11 \nDodecagon (avoid "duodecagon") 12 \nTriskaidecagon 13 \nPentadecagon (or quindecagon) 15 \nHeptadecagon 17 \nEnneadecagon 19 \nIcosagon 20 \nTriacontagon 30 \nHectagon (avoid "centagon") 100 \nChiliagon 1000 \nMyriagon 10,000
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Its actually not round, its more of an oval shape.
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Well, the ring is made of different components that need to be assembled in the stadium. At the smaller promotions like Ring of Honour, the rookies set up the ring themselves.
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The round ones don't chip from contact in sparring and combat, but the octagonal ones have a better striking surface.   It isn't really about which one is better, but more about whether you are looking for aesthetics or striking.\n\nAs for size...when holding the butt end of the weapon even with your outstretched fingertips, the pointed end should extend just past the elbow.
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Why? Because, you huge wuss, the only way a real man wins a boxing match is to beat up the other guy until he can't stand up anymore. For a very long time, this was literally true. Prize fighting was simply hitting, biting, gouging, anything short of the use of weapons until the other guy gave up. The first rules were pub rules, and were put in place to lower the chances of a boxer getting killed. For instance, when a boxer was knocked down, his\nopponent had to stop hitting him. Each knockdown was called a 'round.' However, this rule was soon exploited by boxers taking a knee as soon as they got tired, at their leisure, and ending the round so they could catch their breath. \n\n\nIn 1743, Jack Broughton, the English champion, drew up a set of rules that became at least moderately accepted. Chief among these was the addition of "two Umpires, who shall absolutely decide all Disputes that may arise about the Battle." These disputes were not about who won or lost, which was still determined only by giving up, or a boxer not being able to return to the fight within 30 seconds of being knocked down, but about the new foul calls Broughton introduced, namely whether a boxer had "hit his Adversary when he is down or seize him by the ham, the breeches, or any part below the waist." You know, protect life first, the family jewels second.\n\n\nThe Broughton Rules were superseded by the London Prize Rules in 1838, but really these were only modifications and standardizations, such as ring dimensions, giving a boxer a little more time to "come up to scratch" at the beginning of the round, and making it the responsibility of the judges to determine if a man was truly knocked down to end a round, or if he had just taken a knee to gain his wind, which was considered a foul. Still,\nknockouts and crying uncle were the only ways, short of being kicked out by the judges, of losing a fight.\n\n\nIn 1867, the London Amateur Athletic Club drew up a new set of rules, including mandating boxers to wear gloves, limiting rounds to three minutes, disallowing any contact besides punches (i.e., wrestling holds), and declaring a boxer who could not stand within ten seconds of a knockdown the loser of the contest. The LAAC got their rules endorsed by John Sholto Douglas, the Marquess of Queensberry. These rules eventually won out over the London Prize\nRules for a couple of reasons, among them the celebrity endorsement by the Marquess, the appeal to the audience of the increased fight pace, and the use of gloves, which reduced the risk that a boxer would die in the ring.\n\n\nThe boxing community was slow to adopt a uniform set of rules. In 1889, John L. Sullivan defended the heavyweight title by KOing Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds under bare-knuckle rules, Ike Weir fought Frank Murphy to an 80 round draw in a featherweight tiltle fight, and Chappie Moran won a 10-round decision over Tommy Kelly for the first bantamweight title. Sullivan, weary from his fight, declared that, from then on, "The Marquess of Queensbury Rules\nmust govern [my fights], as I want fighting, not foot-racing." In 1890, London's Pelican Club, the quasi-official governing body of the boxing world, adopted rules similar to Queensberry's, with the modification that a fight could last no longer than 20 rounds, for the first time codifying the emerging practice of having the judges score fights in which there was no obvious winner. Significantly, the Moran-Kelly fight was in Brooklyn, under New\nYork laws which prohibited fights longer than 10 rounds, necessitating judges to determine a winner if neither fighter was knocked out. Eventually, this came to be thought of as an acceptable arrangement by other governing bodies of boxing, again, because boxers were more likely to survive the fights. From 1911-1920, New York fights, and pretty much all American fights, were fought under the "Frawley Law," which not only restricted
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a circle is meant to be round with same radius\na circle of triangular or some other shape is not possible \nif a circle is changed to tringular shape then it is a triangle but not a circle
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A KO is a situation when a boxer goes down the canvass and is counted out by the referee. A TKO is a situation where the boxer could still be standing but is so battered by the opposing boxer that the referee steps in and stops the fight and declare a winner to a bout. Of course, the battered one loses and the other is declared the winner. \n\nWhile there are situations that could be difficult to distinguish a KO from a TKO, as for example, after the round another boxer just refuses to come out and so a stoppage is declared and a winner is named normally by saying that the fight is completed by a TKO (since he did not TECHNICALLY continue and does is TECHNICALLY KNOCKED OUT), others would contend that he was KNOWNED OUT by refusing to continue. \n\nWhatever it is, a KO and a TKO result in the completion of a bout. And so a KO is a KNOCKED OUT situation, while a TKO is a situation where the boxer is declared TECHNICALLY out of the game as a result of a no-contest, injury or referee's decision.
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From boxing. It happens when a boxer is groggy and ready to be knock out and the bell rings to end the round and give him a chance to recuperate.
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It is a ball......though strictly, it isn't really round is it??? Which means it shouldn't be called a ball because a ball must be round!!! In Australia, they call it a "FOOTY".
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in 12 hours they will ring at the same time.  See if you can understand my drawing here:\n1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12\n. r . r . r . r . r   .  r \n. . r . . r . . r .   .  r\n. . . r . . . r . .   .  r\n\nThe . symbolises an hour without a ring and the r stands for ring.\n\n\n\nEDIT:\nSorry the spacing didn't work out so well when I posted it, but you get the idea I hope!
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false. a quadrilateral is a four sided polygon. so a square and rectangle are also quadrilaterals. a trapezoid is a four sided polygon with 2 opposite sides that are parallel to each other.
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The wedding ring goes on first then the engagement ring as tadition goes. The weddingring has more meaningful significance.