No, you make a hypothesis, you design a test with fewer rules than boxing, and you allow anyone to test themselves.
No, the gloves make an important difference. Gloves protect hands, and the early development of cuts on opponents. Hitting without a glove, or with smaller gloves than boxing, has been proven be harder than hitting with boxing gloves.
It's like hitting with a mallet, and a hammer. The mallet still hurts, and can do damage, but the hammer will cause more acute, and immediate damage.
BJJ is the single best fighting style on the planet, and grapplers in general dominate strikers who have no knowledge of grappling. The end.
You add wrestling with BJJ, and you have monster that almost no boxer, or striker could handle. It's always been this way. People understood this before WWII, and then the martial arts world became defined by Hollywood, and people forgot what was already known.
The Gracies brought everyone back down to earth. They reestablished the combat hierarchy in favor of grapplers because they actually tested it.
Jigoro Kano, and Helio Gracie are the two most important martial art figures in history.
