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When did the first amateur boxing championships take place under Queensberry rules?
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Manny Pacquiao (right) and Floyd Mayweather, Jr., in their 2015 welterweight bout; Mayweather won in a unanimous decision.
The first amateur boxing championships held under the Queensberry rules took place in 1867.1