![]() ![]() The propping elevations preferably are hollow and each contain a shoe drying fan and the sole engaging upper surfaces each have air flow ports to pass air from the fans to the soles of boxer shoes resting on propping elevations to dry moisture from the canvass. The shoe engaging and propping elevations preferably have the shape of the bottom of a shoe and resemble inverted shoes. The mat also has shoe engaging and propping elevations having shoe heel supporting portions and shoe sole engaging upper surfaces and which are angled back toward the heel to elevate boxer shoes and feet in a comfortable position. A circuit recess preferably is provided in the mat material underneath the pan and under the pan recess, which contains batteries and circuit wiring with a general mat switch connected to and powering the ring rotation motors. A absorbent ring such as of a tissue paper or of sponge material is slidably retained within a circular channel along the outward surface of the pan side wall, and one or more electric ring rotation motors is mounted to the mat adjacent to the pan side wall and rotates a drive cylinder extending into the pan and into contact with the absorbent ring to cause the absorbent ring to rotate within the pan about the center of the pan to gather and absorb collected liquid. A bucket drain hose extends from the spit bucket onto the pan along an incline so that liquid enters the drain hose from the bucket and flows into the pan where liquids are collected during a match. Also provided is a spit bucket, located forward of the pan, the spit bucket being fitted into a bucket recess in the mat upper surface. The mat includes several boxer anti-slip means including a rough surface for frictionally engaging boxer shoes, and a fluid collecting pan having a pan bottom wall and a pan side wall with a side wall lip and fitted into a pan recess and which preferably receives the lower ends of stool legs to secure a boxer stool against movement relative to the mat and to collect and contain water, sweat and spit. The mat fastening means preferably includes a tie string secured to and extending from the mat anchor corner for tying around the ring corner post. The mat preferably has mat fastening means for securing the mat in place, which preferably are located in a mat anchor corner. The mat has a mat body having a mat body perimeter shape which may be generally triangular or generally diamond-shaped but preferably is generally the shape of a sneaker sole. More specifically the present invention relates to a corner mat for placement in a corner of a boxing ring to prevent a boxer and his stool from sliding on the water splashed onto a boxer and spattering onto boxing ring surface, by diverting the water and other liquids into a collection pan, elevating boxer shoes above the mat surface and by drying boxer shoe soles. The present invention relates generally to the field of sports equipment. 31, 2003, and a continuation-in-part of application Ser. ![]() This application is based at least in part on the contents of disclosure document number 541197 filed on Oct. ![]()
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