Should referees eliminate "glove touching"?

[KING MEAT]

or should fighters be deducted a point for wanting to touch gloves?

IMO its ruins fight intensity. i dont like it. theyre gonna hug it out after the match either way.

[Croyd]

Every match is started with glove touching. Should both fighters get penalized at the start of every match?

[KING MEAT]

Every match is started with glove touching. Should both fighters get penalized at the start of every match?

refs shouldnt make the fighters do it before the bell.

[sugarsmosley]

Mosley would have got DQ'd in rd.1 against pac then

[-Kev-]

Well it's a sport, not a street fight. It would be kinda weird to eliminate glove touching. It's also a sign of apology, when you unintentionally foul your opponent, you put your glove out to indicate it was not done on purpose. And it's also a sign of "props" after a good competitive round. Because of the nature of the sport already being so brutal, glove touching is needed. It's not like baseball, basketball, or football where you do not have to shake hands with the opposing team during a game, like if the opposing batter hits a homerun, the pitcher is not going to go shake his hand, why should he? It's just a game. Boxing is a brutal sport and some kind of good manners/nice gestures like glove touching is needed, even though it doesn't make it any less of a dangerous sport.

However I admit that excessive glove touching like Mosley does, or too much smiling or friendliness during pre fight hype kinda waters down the hype of the fight.

[J.Dempsey]

Boxing is a sport and it's a sign of sportsmanship..
Besides its always better when the ref asked them to touch and they don't want too...that hypes it up a bit

[-MAKAVELLI-]

dumb idea


*touches Meat's glove to tell him its ok*

[KING MEAT]

Mosley would have got DQ'd in rd.1 against pac then

that fight was cringeworthy lol.

im never watching that fight again.

its like "sorry i hit you, shake hands. sorry i hit you, shake hands. rinse and repeat.

[HWChampion]

Lol, touching gloves shows respect and is a positive aspect of the sport. Though it is such a small aspect but important. Children will watch boxers touch gloves and learn a lesson about respect.

[KING MEAT]

dumb idea


*touches Meat's glove to tell him its ok*

red k sent.

i lol everytime i see that clip mosley trying to touch gloves with floyd and he gets punched in the mouth.