Talk:Wrestling ring

Merger

A boxing ring and a wrestling ring are 99.99% the same thing. Certainly same enough that they could easily both be described in different sections of one article.

The only major difference between a boxing ring and a wrestling ring is what goes on inside it. Tromboneguy0186 (talk) 15:25, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

And what's more, with the two articles being as bare as they are, there's not really a compelling reason to keep them separate if there's anything even approaching consensus to merge. Tromboneguy0186 (talk) 15:25, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Disagree - The two share a common ancestry and shape, but everything from the ropes, corners, under-support, and type of materials used to build them is different these days. —Preceding unsigned comment added by HooperBandP (talk • contribs) 16:45, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

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Origins/History?

How about a section detailing the origins and evolution of wrestling rings? The earliest evidence we have is from the 1880s when matches like William Muldoon vs Thiebaud Bauer from 1880 were held on a roped elevated stage, with two ropes, posts halfways along each side and a gap in the ropes for the steps up to the platform. Also at many early venues up to the early 1900s, matches would be wrestled without a ring on a mat on a theatre stage - sometimes with a set of ring ropes around the mat, sometimes not.2.24.71.188 (talk) 14:46, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

I would suspect that the origins of a wrestling ring are entirely tied up in the origins of a boxing ring, as the two were identical (and the same rings used for both) as late as the 1960s. I recently saw some footage of a 1920 world heavyweight title match at the second Madison Square Garden and the ring is identical to one used for a boxing match that same year.oknazevad (talk) 17:06, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

There were only two ropes a side on the ring used for Hack/Gotch in 1908 (although the turnbuckles looked very WCW/JCP) and, like I sai, back in the 1880s there was a gap in the ropes from the steps and extra posts halfway down each side. Not sure if any of these were the case with boxing rings. 62.190.148.115 (talk) 12:22, 20 April 2018 (UTC)