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Marquess of Queensberry Rules

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Under Queensberry Rules! (1940)

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Marquess of Queensberry Rules

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Reid Fleming Marquess of Queensberry rules

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That's hardly Marquess of Queensberry rules, now is it?

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How We Used To Fight

The Marquess of Queensberry Rules are a code of generally accepted rules in the sport of boxing. Drafted in London in 1865 and published in 1867, they were named so as The Most Hon. The 9th Marquess of Queensberry publicly endorsed the code, although they were written by a Welsh sportsman named John Graham Chambers. The code of rules on which modern boxing is based, the Queensberry rules were the first to mandate the use of gloves in boxing.
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