This paper examines how one of the first systems of institutionalizing and creating a more humane and formal structure for
the pugilistic art of
boxing was achieved by the codification of the boxing rules and regulations of the Marquis of Queensbury, who was the father of 'Boise', or Lord Alfred Douglas, the male lover of Oscar Wilde. It analyzes how this strange paring in history of a famous coupling of homosexuality and an advocate of
masculinity in its raw form of Victorian sport embodies the contradiction in the cult of Victorian masculinity.