Various Ring Sizes, Some Standard, Some Not

[Left Hook Louie]

Right. Intuitively, few would would guess that a 16 foot ring has less than half the floor space of a 24 foot ring.

I'm not a mathematician (far from it) but I think that might be the ol' Inverse Square Law's contribution to the sweet science.

[Willie Pep 229]

I'm not a mathematician (far from it) but I think that might be the ol' Inverse Square Law's contribution to the sweet science.

This concept is more generally known as quadratic growth because area scales with the square of the length.

The inverse square law, by contrast, refers to how certain physical quanti-ties (like gravity or light intensity) decrease proportionally to the square of the distance from a source. So while both involve squares, your example follows direct quadratic scaling, not inverse square logic.

P.S. It censored out "ti-ties" -- I wonder what it does to boobies? Oh good! Boobies are safe. I like boobies.

[Anomalocaris]

Poor Marvin's problem was that he was neither smart nor a good ring general. At the negotiating table he was merely a private. Ray had this fight won at the negotiating table.

When a fighter wins at the negotiating table I have less respect for the win. Without the larger gloves, the larger ring and the shorter fight, I feel their is a pretty good chance Marvin emerges victorious.

1981-2 Ray would have outpointed him far more concvincingly in my opinion. After all he defeated the Hitman and I don't think anyone in history apart from Robinson would have a chance.

Tommy at Welter was absolutely and utterly lethal.

[Mr Mitts]

This concept is more generally known as quadratic growth because area scales with the square of the length.

The inverse square law, by contrast, refers to how certain physical quanti-ties (like gravity or light intensity) decrease proportionally to the square of the distance from a source. So while both involve squares, your example follows direct quadratic scaling, not inverse square logic.

P.S. It censored out "ti-ties" -- I wonder what it does to boobies? Oh good! Boobies are safe. I like boobies.

Thanks, I didn't want to do that.

Some things that vary by inverse square law:

1 Speed of falling object

2 Sound intensity

3 Light intensity

4 Electric field strength

And about a million others.

[QueensburyRules]

Poor Marvin's problem was that he was neither smart nor a good ring general. At the negotiating table he was merely a private. Ray had this fight won at the negotiating table.

When a fighter wins at the negotiating table I have less respect for the win. Without the larger gloves, the larger ring and the shorter fight, I feel their is a pretty good chance Marvin emerges victorious.

- - Now, now, there you go again.

Marv had to give up a lot to get Ray to fight him. Where he and his team made a mistake #1 was thinking Ray was coming in rusty and over his best weight when in fact Ray had been training hush hush in a private gym where any of his team were pledged to silence if they wanted to receive their substantial bonus after the fight.

#2 was Marv's swelling pride thinking he could box with a rusty Ray that almost cost him the Duran decision. Ray ran most of the fight to win one of the most disputed decisions of that era magnified by an imbecilic very wide card for Ray.