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The boxing ring is the space in
which a boxing match occurs. A modern ring is square, set on a raised
platform and bound around with four parallel rows of rope attached to posts
at each corner of the ring. Currently professional contests have to have an
international standard ring. However there are a number of different
international standards.
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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