With MMA Gloves, ANGULO-TSURKAN is over in Round 1

[Steak]

This whole MMA vs Boxing gloves thing is bull****. MMA gloves have 1 inch of padding. Boxing gloves have 1 inch of padding. The fact that they are smaller has nothing to do with anything. The padding is the same. The only reason you see more knock outs in MMA is because the fighters have bad chins, and are not use to getting hit.

well, its also harder to create momentum with all that extra weight on.

its interesting about the thinkness of the gloves though. I think theres a difference there too however. boxing gloves are bigger, and the force behind the punch has to be spread out over a larger surface, which I think would lessen the effects of a punch.
...are they really the same thickness?

[Southpaw16]

I don't think that smaller gloves makes boxing safer, which is the implication here. And we don't know that the fight would have been over in round 1. Maybe it would have lasted until round 10, and since the punches were coming in harder it would have put the guy into a coma.

I kind of see your argument that in some cases quicker knockouts would improve safety, but overall, saying that punches landing with harder impact would make for a safer sport flies right in the face of logic. If nothing else that would have to be scientifically researched a lot before being put into play.