How Large Is a Wrestling Ring?

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Steve Neilson, also known as Stevie Slick, the CEO and owner of NWA UCW Zero in Salt Lake City, Utah. We're going to talk a little bit about wrestling rings. The size of a wrestling rings varies quite a bit. You have a twenty foot wrestling ring, which is twenty by twenty. Wrestling rings have three ropes and turn buckles, as you see here, which have a slight little bit of padding over the metal hardware that holds them to the posts. The other size of wrestling rings which are used is an eighteen foot wrestling ring, and, or a sixteen foot wrestling ring, which is the size we happen to be in right now. Wrestling rings vary in their consistency, and how stiff or hard they are. Some are a little more flexible than others, none of them are a trampoline. When you hit the ground, you're hitting something that you know you're, you're landing on something. The ropes are also, there's cable ropes, which have steel cable with a little bit of padding over them, and then there's hemp ropes. All the ropes are stretched tight, and they're also very springy and rigid, so as you hit the rope, they're going to propel you off with a little bit of force. So when you see a wrestler get thrown in to the rope and coming off, he's coming off with some, some force and some spring there. But the three types of wrestling rings that are commonly used, once again, are twenty foot, eighteen foot, and sixteen foot, with the eighteen foot being the most common."