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A boxing ring is square, not round
The enclosed area measures between 4.9 and 6.1 metres on each side The name dates from a time when crowds stood in a circle around the fighters, and the raised square platform kept the shape. Rules set the ring at 16 to 20 feet a side inside the ropes, with a canvas floor over padding. The ropes run in four lines and the corner posts are padded. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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A boxing ring is square, not round: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- The enclosed area measures between 4.9 and 6.1 metres on each side. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a sports fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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