Ancient Roman boxing gloves discovered

[JAB5239]

I was under the impression the Roman's and Greeks boxed bare fisted.

Ancient Roman Boxing Gloves Discovered At Hadrian's Wall https://share.google/VfWVqUMpHmkJWNTsb

[them_apples]

I was under the impression the Roman's and Greeks boxed bare fisted.

Ancient Roman Boxing Gloves Discovered At Hadrian's Wall https://share.google/VfWVqUMpHmkJWNTsb

amazing

[QueensburyRules]

I was under the impression the Roman's and Greeks boxed bare fisted.

Ancient Roman Boxing Gloves Discovered At Hadrian's Wall https://share.google/VfWVqUMpHmkJWNTsb

- - They did...duh, and also with different types of gloves or straps depending on the era including the cestus.

[JAB5239]

- - They did...duh, and also with different types of gloves or straps depending on the era including the cestus.

Oh, ok. So what era's used these gloves?

[Willie Pep 229]

Wikipedia

Cestus or caestus (Classical Latin: [ˈkae̯stʊs], Ancient Greek: κεστός) is a fighting glove that was sometimes used in Roman gladiatorial events. It was based on a Greek original, which employed straps called himantes and sphirae, hard leather strips that enclosed and protected the fist and lower arm. Some cesti were fitted with studs or spikes to inflict potentially lethal injuries. Cestus fighters seem to have had no form of body armour, apart from the cestus itself. Contemporary depictions show the cestus worn in pairs.

Looks to me they were the standard for centuries.

[JAB5239]

Wikipedia

Cestus or caestus (Classical Latin: [ˈkae̯stʊs], Ancient Greek: κεστός) is a fighting glove that was sometimes used in Roman gladiatorial events. It was based on a Greek original, which employed straps called himantes and sphirae, hard leather strips that enclosed and protected the fist and lower arm. Some cesti were fitted with studs or spikes to inflict potentially lethal injuries. Cestus fighters seem to have had no form of body armour, apart from the cestus itself. Contemporary depictions show the cestus worn in pairs.

Looks to me they were the standard for centuries.

Thank you for the standard Wikipedia. But since this is the first physical proof of gloves or wraps from the ancchient ers I'm probably looking for a little more. I of course googled it myself and have come up with the same answers. I'm looking for the definitive "more" when Queenie says "duh".

[The D3vil]

More proof that boxing is INDEED the GREATEST, most enduring sport there has ever been & will ever be.

[Willie Pep 229]

More proof that boxing is INDEED the GREATEST, most enduring sport there has ever been & will ever be.

Yeah for sure!

Running, dicuss, javelin, wrestling, boxing.

Antiquity's warfare.

Some anthropologists say the we developed our opposable thumb, not so we could hold tools, but first, so we could strike with a fist.

It isn't just old, or even original. It's primeval.

P.S. Even the sword was a high technology still waiting to happen.

[BKM-]

Very interesting. Looking at the ancient depictions of fist protection this is pretty much confirmation. On those depictions for Pankration however I don't see any protection for the fists which I imagine is because they couldn't design something as usable as the modern mma gloves so that still makes it the most 'harcore' acnient fighting art with no weapons in my eyes.