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i have no idea, but if i were to guess i would say because the ring resembles a box? and before they fought in the ring we use currently, it was called fisticuffs or brawling?

I thought the word boxing comes from having to fight in a box shaped area...hence boxing.. just a guess tho wow, never thought of that now i feel like a retarded dumbass.....instead of just lookin like one :D

I thought the word boxing comes from having to fight in a box shaped area...hence boxing.. just a guess tho

you dont look at a bottle of vimto and say thats a rhino do you :P if it was called rhino you would

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*AHEM* :cool: According to "Word Detective", it is not known with any real degree of certainty where the word "boxing" came from; but: One possibility is that "box" came from an old Germanic root ("boki") which later appeared in Dutch and German words meaning "to strike." Though we think of "box" as a verb, it first showed up in English around 1385 as a noun meaning "blow," now heard almost exclusively in the phrase "a box on the ears." Hope that helped.

to answer the original question..why is anything called anything why is cheese cheese or vimto vimto. you gotta start somewhere you dont look at a bottle of vimto and say thats a rhino do you :P

According to "Word Detective", it is not known with any real degree of certainty where the word "boxing" came from; but: One possibility is that "box" came from an old Germanic root ("boki") which later appeared in Dutch and German words meaning "to strike." Though we think of "box" as a verb, it first showed up in English around 1385 as a noun meaning "blow," now heard almost exclusively in the phrase "a box on the ears." Hope that helped.

to answer the original question..why is anything called anything why is cheese cheese or vimto vimto. you gotta start somewhere

the desire to murder another man, via gloved fists

is that a word or just sum mad shit u thought u wud type? no pugilist is a word for the fistic arts

I prefer fisticuffs.

those answers were really informative :rolleyes:

is that a word or just sum mad shit u thought u wud type?

dunno but it sounds better than pugilist