The Marquess of Queensberry Rules, also known as Queensbury Rules, are a code of generally accepted rules in the sport of boxing. Drafted in London in...
11 KB (1,563 words) - 13:34, 16 August 2024
John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (20 July 1844 – 31 January 1900), was a British nobleman of the Victorian era, remembered for his atheism...
17 KB (1,829 words) - 21:35, 16 August 2024
Marquess of Queensberry is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. The title has been held since its creation in 1682 by a member of the Douglas family. The...
11 KB (1,016 words) - 23:17, 21 June 2024
Boxing (redirect from History of boxing)
Britain, to the forerunner of modern boxing in the mid-19th century with the 1867 introduction of the Marquess of Queensberry Rules. Amateur boxing is both...
112 KB (14,385 words) - 18:29, 2 August 2024
Archibald William Douglas, 8th Marquess of Queensberry PC (18 April 1818 – 6 August 1858), styled Viscount Drumlanrig between 1837 and 1856, was a British...
8 KB (562 words) - 21:59, 15 August 2024
later superseded by the Marquess of Queensberry Rules, which were the origin of the modern sport of boxing. Fights under these rules were often contested...
13 KB (2,223 words) - 23:15, 22 June 2024
John L. Sullivan (category American people of Irish descent)
heavyweight contest occurred under the Marquess of Queensberry Rules, but it was neither the first title fight under those rules nor was it the first title fight...
34 KB (2,701 words) - 03:25, 17 August 2024
Queensbury Marquess of Queensberry, a hereditary title in Scotland Marchioness of Queensbury, consort to the Marquess of Queensberry Earl of Queensberry, a hereditary...
1 KB (203 words) - 03:37, 1 April 2022
Bare-knuckle boxing (section Rules)
blows were all declared fouls. Marquess of Queensberry Rules: Another set of rules that was codified by John Graham Chambers of the Amateur Athletic Club and...
29 KB (2,934 words) - 03:31, 28 May 2024
L. Sullivan was the first widely recognized champion under Marquess of Queensberry rules. Known as the "Boston Strong Boy", Sullivan weighed around 200...
88 KB (3,724 words) - 12:32, 16 July 2024
the treatment of people in war), medieval chivalry, the Marquess of Queensberry Rules (covering boxing), and the individual rulesets of various combat...
6 KB (540 words) - 01:27, 9 May 2024
The Quiet Man (category Films shot in the Republic of Ireland)
Sean and Will after they insincerely agree to adhere to the Marquess of Queensberry rules. This much-anticipated match attracts more and more spectators...
31 KB (3,505 words) - 20:01, 21 August 2024
Code duello (redirect from Southern US Code of Honor)
attempts by other men to write acceptable rules, John Graham Chambers wrote the Marquess of Queensberry rules in 1865. They were published in 1867. He...
12 KB (1,727 words) - 00:16, 29 February 2024
"approximately 500 boxers have died in the ring or as a result of boxing since the Marquess of Queensberry Rules were introduced in 1884." 22 boxers died in 1953 alone...
63 KB (1,762 words) - 19:12, 20 August 2024
prior knowledge of the scam. In 1896, James J. Corbett, the first heavyweight champion crowned under the Marquess of Queensberry Rules,: 109 hadn't defended...
41 KB (5,016 words) - 03:13, 14 August 2024
Larry Foley (category Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees)
the advanced age of 39, Foley came out of boxing retirement to fight a gloved battle using the modern Marquess of Queensberry Rules against "Professor"...
18 KB (2,066 words) - 20:17, 30 April 2024
in the 18th century, and reaches its present form with the Marquess of Queensberry Rules of 1867.[citation needed] Certain traditional combat sports and...
46 KB (5,194 words) - 04:32, 14 August 2024
Mandatory eight count (category Boxing rules and regulations)
a part of the Unified Rules of Boxing as adopted by the Association of Boxing Commissions. The Marquess of Queensberry Rules, the base rules of boxing...
5 KB (568 words) - 19:37, 4 August 2024
elapsed. Despite the Marquess of Queensberry Rules stipulating that a fighter has ten seconds to rise from a knockdown, studies of knockouts have shown...
8 KB (876 words) - 07:12, 15 August 2024
Lockerbie (section Hallmuir Prisoner of War Camp)
Queensberry's sponsorship and are universally known as the "Marquess of Queensberry rules". Lockerbie House is an important establishment within Lockerbie...
17 KB (1,998 words) - 23:25, 27 July 2024
placename of multiple addresses throughout southern Scotland, the hill also lend its name to the Duke of Queensberry and Marquess of Queensberry peerages...
2 KB (134 words) - 22:37, 27 February 2024
Marquess of Queensberry Rules. During the same period and earlier, Mace completed what might be considered an apprenticeship in the boxing booth of former...
42 KB (4,693 words) - 09:38, 27 July 2024
John Graham Chambers (category Creators of sports)
Colquhoun Sculls and became President of the University Boat Club. Chambers codified the "Marquess of Queensberry rules" upon which modern-day boxing is based...
4 KB (395 words) - 11:46, 27 July 2024
the groin have been forbidden in boxing as far back as the Marquess of Queensberry Rules, and they are almost universally forbidden in martial arts competitions...
6 KB (755 words) - 01:36, 4 August 2024
years. Events Publication of the Marquess of Queensberry rules which had been written in 1865. These rules prescribe the use of gloves, the ten second count...
6 KB (683 words) - 23:15, 8 August 2022
Professional boxing (redirect from The History of Professional Boxing)
nine of its own rules to augment the Queensberry Rules. These rules specified more accurately, the role of the officials, and produced a system of scoring...
22 KB (2,824 words) - 19:31, 10 August 2024
Martial arts timeline (category Timelines of sports)
by John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, leading the rules to become known as the "Marquess of Queensberry rules". 1872 - A Cornish wrestling tournament...
36 KB (4,520 words) - 09:58, 19 August 2024
Combat sport (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from July 2021)
modern boxing with the introduction of the Marquess of Queensberry rules in 1867. Amateur boxing has been part of the modern Olympic Games since their...
23 KB (2,498 words) - 11:24, 27 July 2024
Boxing glove (section Types of gloves)
mandated by the Marquess of Queensberry Rules. Modern boxing gloves started showing up towards the end of the 1890s. Over one hundred years of engineering...
21 KB (1,683 words) - 21:38, 19 August 2024
Wyatt Earp (category American people of English descent)
earlier days, though not under the Marquess of Queensberry Rules but under the older and more liberal London Prize Ring Rules. The fight may have been the most...
194 KB (21,588 words) - 21:12, 20 August 2024