Why Are Wrestling Rings Square-shaped?

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Many of us get home from work, get on the couch in front of our TV, and tune in to our favourite Sports station. After hours of watching boring and long football or basketball matches, your dream sport finally comes up, Wrestling. With two of your favourite and top-rated wrestlers to battle in a first blood match, you make yourself comfortable for the most extended entertainment period of a lifetime.  One you wouldn't dare to miss.

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 But little do you know you've always missed something right from when you started watching heavily packed fist-brawlers pummel the hell out of themselves. You never knew why wrestling rings are in square shapes and not round shapes.

Why Are Wrestling Rings Square-shaped?
Now it sounds odd, right? Having call something a ring, yet have it to be square, instead of a round or circular shape.
In the past, say thousands of years ago, wrestling was only seen as a means of survival, and not to mention, a reasonable and sensible way of settling disagreements between people.

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But later in the 19th century, it adopted the name "Professional Wrestling," commonly known as "Pro Wrestling." But before then, wrestling activities were performed amidst other people, who usually formed a circle around the fighters, sometimes booing and raining insults on the fighters who were getting popped.  This little line of action made people call the vicinity a wrestling ring, due to the round and circular shape made.
With this ring, spectators were able to block any pathway out of it with ropes, to contain the wrestlers within it.
Squares are easier and faster to construct than round shapes. Also, when we have square-shaped wrestling rings, it's flexibility aids more significant support. As a famous science writer once said, "compact discs and pizzas are round. However, you won't find any round CD cases or pizza boxes". They're all square!
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