Wrestling vs. Boxing — What's the Difference?

Wrestling is a combat sport involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. The sport can either be genuinely competitive or sportive entertainment (see professional wrestling).

Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time in a boxing ring. Amateur boxing is both an Olympic and Commonwealth Games sport and is a standard fixture in most international games—it also has its own World Championships.

A sport in which two competitors attempt to unbalance, control, or immobilize each other by various holds and maneuvers.

A container typically constructed with four sides perpendicular to the base and often having a lid or cover.

Present participle of wrestle

The amount or quantity that such a container can hold.

A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.

A square or rectangle

A professional tumbling act that emulates the sport of wrestling. Also called "professional wrestling". It is distinguished from sport wrestling — which has strict internationally recognized rules and is conducted on a mat — by being scripted, rehearsed, conducted in a boxing ring rather than on a mat, and televised as entertainment.

A separated compartment in a public place of entertainment, such as a theater or stadium, for the accommodation of a small group.

A wrestling match.

An area of a public place, such as a courtroom or stadium, marked off and restricted for use by persons performing a specific function

(countable) The act of one who wrestles; a struggle to achieve something.

A small structure serving as a shelter

Act of one who wrestles; specif., the sport consisting of the hand-to-hand combat between two unarmed contestants who seek to throw each other.

Chiefly British A small country house used as a sporting lodge

The act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat;

A box stall.

The sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down

The raised seat for the driver of a coach or carriage.

An area on a diamond marked by lines designating where the batter may stand.

Any of various designated areas for other team members, such as the pitcher, catcher, and coaches.

A penalty box.

The penalty area on a soccer field.

(Printing) Featured printed matter enclosed by hairlines, a border, or white space and placed within or between text columns.

A hollow made in the side of a tree for the collection of sap.

A post office box.

An inbox.

An outbox.

An insulating, enclosing, or protective casing or part in a machine.

A signaling device enclosed in a casing

A cable box.

(Informal) A television.

A very large portable radio.

Chiefly British A gift or gratuity, especially one given at Christmas.

An awkward or perplexing situation; a predicament.

Vulgar Slang The vulva and the vagina.

Material used for boxes.

A boxlike covering or enclosure.

The act of enclosing in a box.

The act, activity, or sport of fighting with the fists, especially according to rules requiring the use of boxing gloves and limiting legal blows to those striking above the waist and on the front or sides of the opponent.

A slap or blow with the hand or fist

To pack in a box.

To confine in or as if in a box.

To border or enclose with or as if with a box

To provide a housing or case for (a machine part, for example).

To limit the activity or influence of by or as if by creating a restrictive structure or outlining a territory

(Sports) To block (a competitor or opponent) from advancing, especially to hinder an opponent from getting a rebound in basketball by placing oneself between the opponent and the basket

(Nautical) To boxhaul.

To cut a hole in (a tree) for the collection of sap.

To blend (paint) by pouring alternately between two containers.

To change the shape of (a structure, such as a wall) by applying lath and plaster or boarding.

To hit with the hand or fist.

(Sports) To take part in a boxing match with.

To fight with the fists or in a boxing match.

Present participle of box

Present participle of box

(sports) A sport where two opponents punch each other with gloved fists to head and torso; the object being to score more points by the end of the match or by knockout, or technical knockout.

Material used for making boxes or casing.

(construction) Casing.

(object-oriented programming) Automatic conversion of value types to objects by wrapping them within a heap-allocated reference type.

The act of inclosing (anything) in a box, as for storage or transportation.

Material used in making boxes or casings.

Any boxlike inclosure or recess; a casing.

The external case of thin material used to bring any member to a required form.

The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist; sparring; pugilism.

Fighting with the fists

The enclosure of something in a package or box