User blog comment:Gabool the Wild/The Idoicy of the Boxing Hare/@comment-1988904-20100616222129

To be contrary.. I'd say that Redwall was MORE inspired by Homer's Illiad and Odyssey. Hence the two forms of Redwall stories: seiges/large battles and travels. Swords, spears, fortresses, bows, sieges happened in the bronze age too...

I think boxing hares would do fine in battle. One's fists are a weapon that you can't lose, unless you hurt them too bad and one can use them to slip under one's foe's sword and land a blow.