Who is checking the boxing gloves to make sure they are not "fixed"?

[GranTorino]

The ref checks teh gloves. Usually when he visits the fighters individually in their dressing rooms when he goes over the rules.

[werewolf]

The ref checks teh gloves. Usually when he visits the fighters individually in their dressing rooms when he goes over the rules.

So some crooked shyster Don King referee, like Randy Neuman, for instance, checks the gloves? And even if the ref is legit and does a legitimate check and signs the wrapping, so that's supposedly going to assure that the fighter doesn't have a horse shoe or something in there, but it does nothing to prevent some Panama Lewis-Angelo Dundee clone from monkeying with the outside of the glove, like the laces. So what this really boils down to is there is no real protection from fixed gloves - and maybe Lennox Lewis' gloves were fixed when he fought Vitali.




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[tyson]

Maybe. It would ruin a fighters career to pull a stunt like that though.
And the gloves probably gets proper checked after the fight.

[rudement]

they write an X on the tape as to being "checked"

[BROOKLYN CESAR]

Doesnt someone from your team watch your opponent tape his hands and sign the tape and the gloves???

[Hydro]

Panama Lewis should be shot.

[werewolf]

Panama Lewis should be shot.

But there he is, big as life, still involved with boxing.

No, not very far fetched to think that these nice fellers running the boxing show - Don King, the eastern European Mafiyas - would come up with funny tricks so they could make extra money - like crooked refs and judges (saying the latter is really redundant - like saying "crooked politician" or "unscrupulous car salesman"), getting fighters to take a dive, doping fighters, and fixing boxing gloves, too. Even killing boxers. Remember Kobozev? There's nothing really stopping them right now.




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[tyson]

Anybody knows the difference between gloves today vs old times?
People back in the day absorbed way more clean punches on average than fighters do today. No, it's not because they had better chin, or because boxers are stronger today...
How much padding had the gloves of, say, Ali's time?

The gloves looked like huge pillows

[The Troll]

The present represenative of the State Boxing Commission (I think)

If you look, they're fighting in Texas for example, it will be written in marker TEX on the tape, if in Las Vegas it will be a signature of the guy who signed.

[werewolf]

Anybody knows the difference between gloves today vs old times?
People back in the day absorbed way more clean punches on average than fighters do today. No, it's not because they had better chin, or because boxers are stronger today...
How much padding had the gloves of, say, Ali's time?

The gloves looked like huge pillows

It would be interesting to see a study of that. It would be somewhat related to the way they have changed the baseball so that more homeruns are hit now. But where can you find info on how the gloves are made and how the manufacturers are required to make them and who, if anybody, overlooks the process? But I don't think you can find this info, just like I don't think you can find the actual rules of boxing. I think that Don King and the Mafiya and the network media moguls just sort of make them up as they go along.





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