Queensberry Rules
The Queensberry Rules are the basic rules of modern boxing .
Designed by John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry and British athlete John Graham Chambers in 1865 and published in 1867, they were first used in the 1880s for the World Heavyweight Championship . Since 1892 they have only been boxed for.
In the Queensberry Rules is among other things
- wearing boxing gloves,
- counting to ten when knocked down,
- set the lap time of three minutes (with a one-minute break).
Their predecessors were the (Revised) London Prize Ring Rules , which in turn replaced the Broughton Rules in 1838 .