Origins of Red & Blue corners....

Sometimes fighters would flip a coin for corners.

 

What would make you care about the history of corner colors? Who gives a ****.

 

Because it would sound wierd if Hatton was "fighting out of the black corner..".

Blue and Red have always been the colors used to designate different teams in matchups - i.e. red team, blue team. Blue and red are colors that are easy to see and aren't going to blend in to the surroundings, plus they are gender-nuetral, therefore they are the most common. There you go, the history of red and blue.

 

this is an old thread, but i've uncovered some new information.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_339NhpgmDw[/ame]


go towards the last 30 seconds of the video...

 

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Often, the ref would be told that the fighter in the red corner has to win etc.

I'm exhausted, so I won't waffle, but it was a way of identifying which guy the men in charge wanted to accomplish what. (The IBC etc.)

 

There is a video on youtube of tyson explaining this. Something to do with gangs putting tehir colours on a flagpost to represent their fighter. I'll try find the link later. The winning colour(gang) would then have 'rights' to that city until their fighter could be beaten.

 

theres a good video where tyson explains this - he was on a tv show and this rj kept on interupting him like a mofo and didn't let him speak.

 

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I believe it has to do with the centuries-old feud between the Tecate ring girls and the Corona ring girls. :yep

 

They're ****ing primary colors. (and both look cooler than yellow) Pretty obvious.