MMA gloves vs Boxing gloves

[douggyd33]

the smalller the glove, the smaller the surface area and that means the harder the impact will be... w/ boxing gloves its spread over and doesnt hurt as bad

 

[megaseth7]

I am not so sure...they both hurt to tell you the truth. I would say that the reason MMA'ers wear the boxing gloves while sparring is that they call for a person to really get their timing down. If you have never sparred with the boxing gloves and you put a pair on it will suddenly seem like there are few if any openings. And the openings that are there usually go away rather quickly. So the advantage in wearing the boxing gloves isnt so much that they dont hurt but that you really need to get your timing down in order for them to hurt...timing or speed.

But really for most of your sparring ya shouldnt be out for blood. Everyone can pick that apart as much as they want but if your want to have no sparring partners just go ahead and go for blood...and then when you dont have anyone to spar with you will see just how few your opportunities for improvement really are.

I say take a tool and use it for what its good for. You can hit a bag bareknuckle or with the MMA gloves only so much before you wrist give you that little warning that says if you keep doing this I am gonna get sprained and then you wont be training on the bag for awhile. Warm up hit the bag some listen to your body and then when you do get that warning put on the boxing gloves and keep at it cause your going to be able to train longer, more effectively without getting hurt. I also dont think its so necessary to wrap your hands all the time either. How many guys wast ten for fifteen minutes of their workout, everytime, screwing around with handwraps. Yeah handwraps are good to wear on occasion and your gonna wanna be used to them 'for the fight' (if thats what you do) but I think alot of the hitting power comes from having strong wrists that can transfer that power and you dont develope that overnight or by wearing wraps all the time.

and hmmm...if Chuch would of still gotten KO'd by Jackson if they would have been wearing boxing gloves because Chuck doesnt keep his hands up.

 

[Fry_]

Show me a 100mph basketball fastball.

Oh my god Cheryl by asking me that question you are not trying to imply a Boxing glove can't move as fast as an MMA glove.


Now people are just trying to stir things up.

 

[RampageSlam]

I 100% disagree with the TS.

I would rather get hit with a 14 oz glove than an MMA glove.

With the 4 oz glove the punch is not only faster but harder.

I have never heard anyone say what the TS just said I think there is a reason for that.

I have been hit with both and from personal experience I can tell you.

MMA gloves- cut more, hurt more, allow people to punch harder because of the covering of the knuckles and less resistance flying through the air

Boxing gloves- more prone to cause swelling because of more surface area, less apt to cause one punch knockout, more knockouts caused by an accumulation of punches.

I would rather get hit by a boxing glove any day.

 

[linx]

the smalller the glove, the smaller the surface area and that means the harder the impact will be... w/ boxing gloves its spread over and doesnt hurt as bad

You don't get knocked out because the spot where the punch landed hurts or got cut, but because the brain was rattled.

 

[Desktop Warrior]

Choice between being hit bare fisted or by someone wearing boxing gloves ? Only an idiot would choose to be hit bare fisted.

http://www.boxing-monthly.co.uk/content/0003/two.htm

Why the hell do you think boxers spar with 16oz gloves, for God's sake?

 

[Dabappa]

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_gloves):

Advantages depending on the weight of the glove

Because of their added weight, heavier gloves are generally considered safer, since force in physics is a measure of mass times acceleration and a heavier glove takes longer to accelerate over short distances. As importantly, heavier gloves contain more padding. A blow to the head with a heavily padded glove is less likely to cause the sudden acceleration of the skull that causes much of the brain trauma associated with boxing injuries. Common weights for gloves in the United States are sixteen, twelve and eight ounces. Many athletes train with heavier gloves than they will use in competition, as a way to increase endurance.

 

[CAPTCHARLIE]

the reason fighters breathe out is because if they get hit in a counter punch your solarplexus hates you and you lose your breath....you get the wind knocked out of you, however when youve just breathed out you do not have this nearly as much and can regain your breath quickly....thanks for coming out about the not tiring part though, its completely wrong

:redface:

 

[RampageSlam]

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_gloves):

Advantages depending on the weight of the glove

Because of their added weight, heavier gloves are generally considered safer, since force in physics is a measure of mass times acceleration and a heavier glove takes longer to accelerate over short distances. As importantly, heavier gloves contain more padding. A blow to the head with a heavily padded glove is less likely to cause the sudden acceleration of the skull that causes much of the brain trauma associated with boxing injuries. Common weights for gloves in the United States are sixteen, twelve and eight ounces. Many athletes train with heavier gloves than they will use in competition, as a way to increase endurance.

Yeah that about sums it up.

 

[michael316]

MMA gloves vs boxing gloves? I surely would NOT want to get his by either. If I were the one doing the hitting, I'd use boxing gloves to pad my hands more.

 

[hitmanz]

I dont want to sound like an idiot but i think you totaly wrong.

I have trained in a fightes class for Kickboxing and Boxing sparring with ametuers helping them train for there fights. I trained with 16 ounce gloves though not 12-14. I can tell you that unless u get hit sweetly or hit by a much bigger guy with those gloves it just shakes you up abit nothing more and you can take alot more punishment.

Getting hit with mma gloves although i have never trained mma i can only imagine would rock the hell out of you. I dont think you realise how much the added padding takes out of punch. The only down side is that the gloves make the hits heavier b/c of the added weight but there is not as much sting in the punches.

BINGO

 

[Shin_Akuma]

Wow, so much bad physics in this thread.

All other things being equal both gloves will deliver the same amount momentum. But the smaller gloves will deliver more energy as energy gets dissipated in the protective padding. Here's a hint, if you are protecting your hands, you are also protecting your opponent's face. It's called Newton's 3rd law and boxing gloves do not magically violate it.

Smaller gloves deliver more pressure as the surface area they strike is smaller. All other things being equal, I would expect more cuts because of this. But this does not at all imply that the small glove will rattle your brain less. All other things being equal, the total momentum transfer is still the same, but the transfer time isn't. In fact ...

Smaller gloves deliver more impact. Padding not only reduces the transfer of energy but it also delays the transfer of energy. Ideally, you would want to strike with as rigid of an object as possible.

 

[MMAfanboy]

the reason fighters breathe out is because if they get hit in a counter punch your solarplexus hates you and you lose your breath....you get the wind knocked out of you, however when youve just breathed out you do not have this nearly as much and can regain your breath quickly....thanks for coming out about the not tiring part though, its completely wrong

:redface:

Hahahaha, TS got owned.

 

[Black-Rob]

Wow, so much bad physics in this thread.

All other things being equal both gloves will deliver the same amount momentum. But the smaller gloves will deliver more energy as energy gets dissipated in the protective padding. Here's a hint, if you are protecting your hands, you are also protecting your opponent's face. It's called Newton's 3rd law and boxing gloves do not magically violate it.

Smaller gloves deliver more pressure as the surface area they strike is smaller. All other things being equal, I would expect more cuts because of this. But this does not at all imply that the small glove will rattle your brain less. All other things being equal, the total momentum transfer is still the same, but the transfer time isn't. In fact ...

Smaller gloves deliver more impact. Padding not only reduces the transfer of energy but it also delays the transfer of energy. Ideally, you would want to strike with as rigid of an object as possible.

Yes. But you also have to consider the weight difference of 6 oz factoring into the equation. E=MC2 as stated by Einstein. E=energy M=mass C2=speed of light squared. For the 3rd graders in here, that means that the bigger the mass of an object, the bigger the energy created if they are going the same speed. (M=2 will create twice the energy of M=1). Now, 10 OZ gloves have a bigger mass, thus if they connected at the same speed as a 4oz glove, more energy will be created, IF THEY BOTH HAVE THE SAME DENSITY, which I am assuming for this equation. However, there is no man alive that can create the same speed with gloves that weigh more. You can't throw a faster punch with heavier gloves on. BUT, the speed in which the heavier gloves reduce the speed of the punch is not enough to compensate for the 250% more mass the 10oz gloves have on the 4oz gloves. The heavier gloves would have to reduce your punch speed by more than 25% for the lighter glove to create more energy, which I'm sure EVERYONE would agree, that don't happen.

Conclusion, get hit with the smaller, lighter, though faster punch and hurt in the impact spot. Get hit with the bigger, heavier, though slower punch and hurt in the impact spot and more.

I ain't no rocket scientist, but I don't think I'm debating with any either.

 

[UnclePauly]

They usually spar with 14 oz gloves. Like someone said in the post, they are padded and heavier to promote endurance in the arms. In the bouts, they use 10 oz gloves, which when the hands are taped, makes them hard as rocks. None of you who have not been hit with taped up 10 oz gloves, don't have a clue. For the uneducated dude that said he don't want to watch pillow fights, you are just that, uneducated.

I don't know the real numbers to an above question about how many KO per 100 fights, but remember in boxing, the bigger gloves are better for blocking and deflecting punches. Not so much glove only defense in MMA.

No no, you can't grapple with boxing gloves. But some people on here, including most of the posters of this thread, say MMA gloves "hurt" more than boxing gloves, and that is simply NOT TRUE!!! Feel the glove, MMA is harder, Tape the hand in the glove, boxing is harder. And yes, they are heavier thus slowing down the arm when punching, but the extra stiffness makes up for that 10 times. And it is real simple, if you don't agree, you have not been hit by both. Maybe one, but not both.

I used to amateur box. I have also been in a lot of street fights. My opinion would be it depends on the situation. Getting punched by big gloves did give an effect of being rocked more than bare knuckle did(would you rather get hit by a big fisted guy or small fisted?). But then again, bare knuckle splits you easier/stings more, and it also gives you the ability to pinpoint your shots better ie. hit the button. So yeah, I think the big gloves dish out more punishment but there are trade offs.

 

[parede]

how about being hammered with a nail in the face, with the same force that a boxer would throw a punch... :icon_twis
why do you think swords have small hitting areas, to cut and to deliver more power in a single point. less area : hits harder, cuts more, more power is transferred to the target. has more chance of breaking the target and your hand and so on... the purpose of the gloves are safety, that alone explains a lot. stop the bs.

 

[VecFighter]

i guarantee that more than half the people on this thread have ever been rocked by both a mma glove and a REAL boxing glove, not a padded sparing glove

 

[cro android]

From experience i can say that a punch with boxing gloves is as detrimental as one with MMA gloves...MMA gloves have a smaller area of impact, hence it tends to 'hurt' more when you get hit with those...boxing gloves, however, don't deliver that 'sting' feeling, but they jolt your brain back and forth and have just as much, if not more, KO/concussion potential.

 

[MMA_HANDS]

iv been hit with both and i would much rather get hit with a 14oz boxing glove than a 4oz MMA glove!

 

[vyce77]

Dude look at the UFC gloves, they are pretty thick on the part you punch.

Go feel your own 10oz gloves home (AT LEAST WHEN YOU HAVE THEM). Otherwise you should shut your face, because you don't know were you talking about.

10oz gloves are hard just as thick as those MMA gloves, and there is no way the MMA gloves are more dense then the Boxing gloves, because otherwise you would kill someone with it.

I own those gloves, and they are hard as hell. More dumb statements... jesus