ALL of the DIVISIONS should WEAR SMALLER GLOVES!!!!

[Sin City]

That's a good point. I wonder how say a Mayweather or Winky would do using the 6oz gloves.

There would be no Winky or Mayweather.

[Domain]

This will eliminate the Paulia Malignaggis and Floyd Mayweathers along with Corey Spinks of the world I might add.. Boxing would be a lot less diverse.

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and then guys like mayorga,valero,pacquiao would be tearing **** up even more...its easy to break someones defensive without the big ass gloves.

[STEELHEAD]

you make a valid point.

However there are pros and cons to wearing big and small gloves.

Big gloves provide more padding which takes away some of the power of the punch.

Small gloves provide less padding so more of the power from the fist connects to the head.

Jesse Feliciano (one in particular) would be dead by now...(if you seen him fight; ie. against cintron and last night on FNF)...

imagine kelly pavlik's opponents? or emmanuel nwodo (when he got knocked out viciously by darnell wilson) etc.



It could very well end fights sooner (ie. when a fighter gets hurt its over basically with smaller gloves) but the right blow with a smaller glove could cause serious injury due to the fact there is less padding.

so i'd say either way can be dangerous.

I think the correct thing to do is educate the refs more (to be cautious) and stop fights that need to be stopped.

Sometimes i get mixed feelings about something like this but last night was a proper stoppage by the ref in the feliciano fight. yes he was very much in the fight (still punching; not off balance; etc.) but he was taking a beating and losing almost every round and his opponent was landing at 48% with a ton of head shots.

that was dangerous to feliciano and normally i would criticize a ref for stopping a fight where the "hurt" fighter isnt indeed hurt.


I think its a trade off with the big v. small gloves arguement. there are pros and cons to both sides of your arguement and i think the best thing to do is use bigger gloves and just have the refs more educated and for the commissions to urge refs to stop fights when the punishment has been sustained for a certain amount of time.

that would help too...

i beg to differ. smaller gloves more chance of cuts and gash (cotto). blow is concentrated i to smaller area.
larger gloves have more padding but create larger impact imprint.hvwts power punchers love it.
sort of like the differents between getting hit by a ball pean hammer compared to a sledgehammer.
more knockout power for bigger guys.
in general bigger powerpunchers like bigger gloves and in general the less power fasthanded like smaller gloves.
just think when you watch those hoaky mma & wrestleing guys sitting on top of an opponent smashing him with flush shots over and over and it dont even knock the guy out.

[Scott9945]

they should fight with 5 oz. gloves... make **** a lot more interesting!

It would also cause a lot more injuries, including broken hands.