Hat in the Ring

[HagarTheHorrible]

Is this where it comes from ?

 

 

Like so many things I'd never really given it much thought, as to where it came from.

 

Edited October 28, 2019 by HagarTheHorrible

[J2_Trupobaw]

throw one's hat in the ring:

Also, toss one's hat in the ring. Announce one's candidacy or enter a contest, as in The governor was slow to throw his hat in the ring in the senatorial race. This term comes from boxing, where throwing a hat in the ring formerly indicated a challenge; today the idiom nearly always refers to political candidacy. [c. 1900]