History Main / RingOut

* The Japanese UsefulNotes/MegaDrive game ''VideoGame/AahHarimanda'' is all about sumo wrestling, and, well, the goal is to get the opponent out of the ring.

** Its port for the UsefulNotes/GameBoy, considering that it was on a 2D instead of a 3D plane, handled the concept rather uniquely: both fighters can get knocked into either side of the arena up to three times, as indicated by how many arrows are remaining near their portrait. If they take a fourth hit at the very edge...

* Capcom's ''VideoGame/StarGladiator'' has this -- and the UsefulNotes/PlayStation version has an option to turn it off!

* {{Inverted|Trope}} with steel cage matches, as one of the ways to win such a match is to ''escape'' the cage. Sometimes, escaping through the entrance gate is an option, but it's generally considered [[RuleOfCool much cooler]] when the gate is padlocked after the wrestlers enter and the only way to escape is to ''climb'' the cage. There have been several instances throughout the history of the sport where one wrestler, typically a WrestlingMonster, threw his opponent through the wall of the cage, giving that wrestler the victory. (This is generally done to keep the monster looking strong while his opponent gains the victory.)

* The Japanese UsefulNotes/MegaDrive game ''Aah Harimanda'' is all about sumo wrestling, and, well, the goal is to get the opponent out of the ring.

* In ''Caveman Ugh-Lympics'', you can defeat your opponent in the Clubbing event one of two ways: beating them senseless, or pushing them toward the cliff edge. Hitting the opponent with repeated low strikes causes them to grab their foot and hop backwards a few steps. If they get pushed all the way back, the cliff edge breaks off, and they fall down.

* This is how King Hippo is [=KOed=] in ''VideoGame/PunchOut Wii''. He has so much health that the player only has to KO him once, at which point he falls out of the ring on his own.

* The ring out is a standard part of the professional wrestling ruleset. Particularly inverted in Wrestling/{{WCW}}, which had an odd rule was in play where throwing your opponent over the top rope constituted a disqualification ''loss''. This was not very popular, although it had some uses for story scenarios. This descends from the NWA's rulebook (see below).
* The Battle Royal, where you must toss your opponents out of the ring (over the top rope only) to win. And there are a lot of variations on it (WWE's ''Royal Rumble'', where the entrants enter in sequence, is probably the most well known). In normal matches, on the other hand, a wrestler who's out of the ring for a 10 count — 20 in Japan — (regardless of whether he went over the top rope) is counted out and loses.
* {{Inverted|Trope}} with steel cage matches, as one of the ways to win such a match is to ''escape'' the cage. Sometimes, escaping through the entrance gate is an option, but it's generally considered [[RuleOfCool much cooler]] when the gate is padlocked after the wrestlers enter and the only way to escape is to ''climb'' the cage. There have been several instances throughout the history of the sport where one wrestler, typically a WrestlingMonster, will throw his opponent through the wall of the cage, giving that wrestler the victory. (This is generally done to keep the monster looking strong while his opponent gains the victory.)
* Also inverted in the sense that getting ''yourself'' to touch the ropes (however slightly) is a common way to counter a submission hold, as the opponent has a 5 count to let go or be disqualified.

* Largely ignoring such was/[[{{Revival}} is]] trademark of Wrestling/{{FMW}} and [[FollowTheLeader its various imitators]]. {{Enforc|edTrope}}ing this ruling was one of the main motivations of Drew Gulak's campaign for a better Wrestling/{{CZW}} and even after that lost steam Cherry Bomb {{Invoked|Trope}} it to try and cut a [[BatFamilyCrossover mandatory]] Wrestling/{{WSU}} Title defense of hers short, only it was almost immediately [[DefiedTrope revoked]] by Wrestling/SamiCallihan, determined to make sure such a thing never took hold in the company.

* The bosses of Castles 1 and 7 in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' can only be defeated by knocking them off the platform into the surrounding LavaPit.
** Similarly, Bullies and Big Bullies in ''Super Mario 64 (DS)'' can only be defeated in the same way.
** Inverted in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' with Big Bob-omb. Throwing him off his mountain will restart the battle from the beginning.

* ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter''. Beginning with ''Virtua Fighter 4'', several stages have had walls that you can smash your opponent through (or you can vault your opponent over it). In the first few installments, before EdgeGravity, it was very easy to ring yourself out by mistake (''Virtua Fighter 3'' was the first with partially walled arenas, but hose walls were not breakable).

* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho Dark Tournament'' has this. Unlike in the anime example above, it's an instant out.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' franchise typically doesn't do ring outs, featuring endless arenas or ones with explicit walls, but the fight with NANCY-MI847J in ''Tekken 6'' has a destructable floor which is an instant KO for you if you ever fall through.

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' video games will sometimes use this on the World Tournament Arena stage. The ''VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokai'' games represented it as an InvisibleWall around the ring, and being knocked into it was an instant defeat even if the fighter was in mid-air at the time. ''Budokai Tenkaichi'' was more forgiving and anime-accurate, letting players fight outside the ring as long as they didn't touch any solid surface except the arena floor. Finally, some games like ''VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse'' do away with the concept entirely, presumably with the HandWave that their KiManipulation skills let them avoid touching out-of-bounds areas.

* ''VideoGame/FightingVipers'' played with it, as all of its stages were walled off, but a sufficiently strong blow would send the opponent right through the wall and out. However, said blow would also knock out the opponent ''before'' they crashed into the wall, meaning that the ring out isn't what would make them lose the fight.

* ''VideoGame/FightingVipers'' played with it, as all of its stages were walled off, but a sufficiently strong blow would send the opponent right through the wall and out.

** ''VideoGame/MarioParty1'' and 'VideoGame/MarioParty2'' have Bumper Balls, a mini-game that can only be won by forcing opponents off the circular playing field, eliminating them.

** Given the popularity of ''Super Smash Bros.'', there are [[FollowTheLeader many]], ''[[FromClonesToGenre many]]'' other games following the same basic formula. ''VideoGame/RivalsOfAether'', ''VideoGame/{{Brawlhalla}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Multiversus}}''… you know what? See the PlatformFighter page for more details — we would be here all day if we tried to make a comprehensive list here. (''VideoGame/PlayStationAllStarsBattleRoyale'' is an exception; while Ring Outs are possible in a handful of that game's stages, the main way of scoring [=KOs=] in that game is to charge up and unleash [[LimitBreak Super Moves]].)

* The ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' franchise typically doesn't do ring outs, featuring endless arenas or ones with explicit walls, but the fight with [[BonusBoss NANCY-MI847J]] in ''Tekken 6'' has a destructable floor which is an instant KO for you if you ever fall through.