Question about Boxing Gloves in Professional Boxing Matches

[Kozbot]

what regulations on gloves are there at the amateur level in boxing?

 

[chino0503]

what regulations on gloves are there at the amateur level in boxing?

under 147 10 oz gloves, over 147 12oz gloves. and its the same for amateurs... depending on the glove brand its gonna have different padding. title and everlast tend to have more knuckle padding... when brands like ambers are the reyes of the amateurs!!! i have to say ambers are the shit! ahha by far my favorite amateur boxing gloves.

 

[koreankid6413]

Some of the time, amateur boxing competitions will give everyone a borrowed set glove such as title or everlast for uniformity and more importantly money since they will usually sponsor such an event.

I'm pretty sure that Reyes don't use horse hair anymore but I could be wrong on that. I know they came out with there safetech version of the pro fight glove that uses foam padding instead of the "horse hair".

I don't really think that the 8oz boxing glove allows you to wrap your hand "better" and that in turn it'll make you punch "harder". It's moreso the weight and surface area of the glove. An 8 oz boxing glove in comparison to a 4oz mma glove is much larger in surface area. When you're punching somebody in the noggin with that, it's gonna cause much more force and the weight of the glove will carry through the punch into the skull. Think of it as blunt force trauma. When I'm caught clean with a boxing glove, it just feels different, worse even.

 

[chino0503]

being able to use more gauze will allow you to punch harder without breaking your hands. im sure of this.

and yes the reyes fight gloves are made of a combination of foam and horse hair... horse hair being on the knuckle side and foam on the back of the hand and thumb. put on a pair of these... and tell me you dont feel your knuckles thru the gloves. its like having oj simpson isotoners with your hands wrapped under.

and yes with amateur boxing you have to use the gloves they supply you. you can usually pick out the pair you want but at big events where they have sponsored gloves you gotta use what they give you. i like the ones with less padding haha

 

[Tempo]

they use the gloves they are sponsored to use.
If you are sponsored by Cleto Reyes they aint gunna want to see you wearing Everlast gloves are they?

 

[koreankid6413]

being able to use more gauze will allow you to punch harder without breaking your hands. im sure of this.

and yes the reyes fight gloves are made of a combination of foam and horse hair... horse hair being on the knuckle side and foam on the back of the hand and thumb. put on a pair of these... and tell me you dont feel your knuckles thru the gloves. its like having oj simpson isotoners with your hands wrapped under.

and yes with amateur boxing you have to use the gloves they supply you. you can usually pick out the pair you want but at big events where they have sponsored gloves you gotta use what they give you. i like the ones with less padding haha

Okay, that sounds more like it. When I first read your other post it seemed like you were saying that wrapping it more and better will automatically make you punch harder.

I guess I was probably thinking about their training gloves. Didn't those use to also use horse hair or has it always been just their pro fight gloves that used them and the training gloves have always used foam?

 

[chino0503]

the training gloves are foam. alittle on the thin side (padding evenly distributed thru out the glove) but are still excellent sparring gloves.

when i first felt the horse hair reyes fight gloves i thought it was a joke.. i felt there was no way people fight with these things. but they do haha.

 

[RandMcnally]

similarly, golf tournaments don't govern on what clubs you use or tennis tournaments don't dictate the racket that you would be using. in some sense, gloves are similar to that. it suits the boxer using it or they might be sponsored. like the other sports, there's a regulation on gloves but other than that, the fighters have the freedom to choose whatever gloves they want to use under their contract as long as it is within regulation. the state commission cannot dictate any particular brand. In MMA, it's usually owned by private corporations that has full control on almost every aspect of the sport. It's not similar to boxing organizations whose primal responsibility is to sanction and govern the fights.