They are super cheap so anyone know anything else about them
Do you have any pics/quick review of the Flores clones?
Here you go. I should also note that these are filled with a relatively high density fiber material, as opposed to actual animal hair. It provides better padding and keeps its shape much longer than horsehair, while still allowing the gloves to have the same look as the traditional Flores. I don’t think I would want to spar in actual horsehair these days.
These look sweet, very classic "Made in the USA" type of glove look & design. Much better looking that the other Old School Boxing Gloves type that TB has on his site which looks humongous and Carlos (csquared) said was too soft and pillow for proper, functional use.
Yeah, I know the gloves you’re talking about, and I’m not a big fan of those either. I think I remember reading once where TopBoxer said those gloves are clones of a 1950’s Everlast or Benlee model, like the type of training gloves that would have been used back in the Marciano days. The Flores clones I have are based off gloves used in the 70’s and 80’s for the most part, so I’m assuming a lot of improvements had been made in boxing gloves during that 20 to 30 year period since the 50s. TopBoxer can make these Flores clones for anyone who requests a custom pair. You can choose basically any color or color combination you want, and he can attach the thumb or leave it unattached based on your preference.
How does the mock horse-hair fiber feel in the padding? I was hearing some good things about TB's fiber padding, some people online was saying it feels great in protection and feedback without weighting the glove down. I heard his orthopedic padding is great too, thin but super protective (more than the Win1 one guy mentioned.) Too bad the padding is more expensive than usual and so far I only seen him use it in his classic bag mitts/glove.
it's not more expensive, it'd be the same as any other
Nice~ I might try out a custom pair in the future then. I remember initially the custom pricing for orthopedic padding was like $20-$30 extra, but I guess that's in the past.
I am a fan of the fiber padding, although I must admit that it’s kind of hard to think of what I could compare it to. I guess the closest comparison I could make is the padding on the SF-F model of Rival’s RFX Guerrero fight gloves. Now obviously those are 8 and 10 ounce fight gloves, so the padding on these 16 ounce sparring gloves is going to be a lot thicker and more forgiving. But the actual feel of the padding is very similar.
Is the difference in the hand compartment or just the weight and amount of padding? I am looking at finally getting a pair of dedicated pad/bag gloves that offer good protection so am seriously looking into the bgv9’s. I would like to get them lighter at 12oz but some have said the hand compartment is much smaller compared to the 14 and 16oz models (I have medium heading towards the large side hands I would say).
