Bare Knuckle or Boxing Gloves

Bare knuckled boxing does produce less brain injuries than gloves. You ARE more likely to get knocked out bare-knuckled thats why there is less brain damage, 1 bare knuckled KO punch may be worse on your face than 15 gloved punches to the head but is far better on your brain.

Bare knuckle would be way too brutal on the hands, face, and career of each boxer. I don't believe it would cause less brain damage. In fact I really think it would cause more. Has the person who wrote this article actually taken a hit from either a gloved fist or bare fist? We can set him down on a desk like the pepsi challenge and instead of drinking a cup marked A or B he gets socked by a pissed off Mike Tyson with a gloved fist and a bare hand. Which would he choose A or B?

The reason they started using gloves was so that they could fight longer without breaking their hands. That rule, along without having round limits is what caused most of the deaths in boxing. If there were no gloves the fights wouldn't go 6 rounds, and there would not be nearly as many punches thrown. Busted knuckles galore. As far as MMA (UFC type fighting) having more devistating KO's, they may look more brutal, but boxing is much harder on the body and the brain due to sustained beatings. I have taught martial arts for roughly 6 years now (jiu-jitsu, some kickboxing among other things) and have done both MMA and boxing recreationaly. In my experience, MMA hurts more, but boxing is much harder on you physically.

i dont know if i believe that man

how about a fist to the throat or a nose bone into the brain (if thats not a myth) or a thumb in the eye. boxing and ultimate fighting are completely different.

I read an article that Bare Knuckle boxing will better help prevent brain damage. I also read there are certain ways to keep your hands positioned to protect yourself from fractures. What do you all think? When it comes to hand-injuries vs. brain damage I'll have to side with the bare knuckle boxing thing.. I think whoever wrote that article is a complete dumbass who doesn't know what he's talking about. Bareknuckle would help prevent brain damage!?!?! Bareknuckle is a great way to have boxers dieing left and right thats all it is. UFC and MMA actually have a lot less seiuous injuires than Boxing because its watched very carefully.

Well I dunno about you guys, but if I had the choice of being hit by someone as hard as they could with (a) gloves on or (b) without gloves on....I know which option I'd take!!

Yeah I think gloves are what keep it a more dare I say, friendly to watch sport? Haha. Compared to Ultimate fighting anyway. Bareknuckles will get you injured and whoever your fighting. I always thought of the glove as a more professional way of hitting each other than with just barehands. It provides full force extension of your power :)

I believe they began with gloves cause bareknuckeled was to dangerous. I think more people would die from it if it went back to bare knusckeld

Yeah, but the boxing gloves aren't made to protect the face or head, they're made to protect the hands..they also have weight on them. It's like getting hit with a blunt object. i noticed that when you get hit with 8 oz it hurts more than 16 oz but the stunning effect is bigger with 16 oz , like gettin hit witha pillow. small gloves or barenaked provoc more cuts and facial damages but less KOs.

Yeah, but the boxing gloves aren't made to protect the face or head, they're made to protect the hands..they also have weight on them. It's like getting hit with a blunt object.

I've never really thought about it like that, but it seems to make sense.

In my opinion, boxing gloves protect from both hand and brain injuries. I've watched Ultimate Fighting matches several times and the fighters who get knocked out are in far worse shape than a boxer who gets knocked out. On the flip side, boxers are able to withstand much more punishment than an ultimate fighter because the boxing glove is padded. So in this sense, the ultimate fighter is spaired less pain. :mad: