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The Queensberry Rules made boxers wear gloves

Published in 1865, they replaced bare-knuckle prizefighting with rounds and counts John Graham Chambers drafted the rules and the Marquess of Queensberry lent his name to them. They required padded gloves, three-minute rounds with a minute's rest, a ten-second count and a ban on wrestling holds. The last bare-knuckle world title fight was fought in 1889. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Published in 1865, they replaced bare-knuckle prizefighting with rounds and counts. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.