Comments Thread For: Garcia Confirms 8 Ounce Gloves For Mayweather-Maidana

[bigjavi973]

Yeah but there was a reason for the last minute change...im pretty sure billy collins family wished they had checked resto's gloves prior to the fight too.. the sport is dangerous enough without having to cheat or alter the gloves.

The luis resto situation was a terrible example. Dude had plaster of paris while maidana wanted to use the stock red NSAC approved gloves.

[bigjavi973]

When he initially put the red glove on his facial expression changed which meant they were obviously different in comparance to the blue ones which was why he passed the glove to his glove guy to inspect... but what it ultimately came down to was trust.. it was broken dude...what would you do if your girl was to cheat on you??

The STOCK red gloves where BROKEN? WTF are you smoking? How the hell can a STOCK, right out of the package glove, be broken in?

[bigjavi973]

This is a non subject at the moment.

Actually it is cuz floyd stated that anyone wanting to fight him has to use the same gloves hes using, you know, "even the playing field"

[Dean_Razorback]

The luis resto situation was a terrible example. Dude had plaster of paris while maidana wanted to use the stock red NSAC approved gloves.

that was margarito, resto's gloves had some padding missing

[The Big Dunn]

Do you have another example of who else ever changed his opponent's gloves with 24 hours prior to the actual fight? (It's about legal gloves -- approved through contract and by the ruling boxing commission... It's not about illegal gloves.)

No, not to my knowledge. Its more about knocking Floyd for flexing his power than it is about legal gloves for most of NSB. That's why I said it will linger on NSB but I doubt anywhere else.

[bigjavi973]

Heres ellerbe ignoring the question about the stock red gloves that was APPROVED by the NSAC.

[Canelo Phresh]

As all of you may remember Maidana hit Broner "with those light blue gloves"...
And Broner never complained about that in public... Is Broner more of a fighter than Floyd is?

Honestly Broner is more of a warrior. To Floyds credit he is rematching a guy that some had beating him.

[Fetta]

Gloves dont matter.

So sad that im going to miss this fight now but other than things are much more important

[MDPopescu]

No, not to my knowledge. Its more about knocking Floyd for flexing his power than it is about legal gloves for most of NSB. That's why I said it will linger on NSB but I doubt anywhere else.

Floyd never erased the "Castillo I" fight "memories" from the boxing fans' minds...

(And by the way: I don't think Floyd lost that fight...)

[LouIE G]

so, you thought of resto's gloves by yourself, floyd mentioning this had nothing to do, right? it's not common sense, there was nothing wrong with the gloves, maidana nor his team tried to cheat, don't you think they would've been in real troubles, like resto, lewis and margarito (the other case that floyd also mentioned) if they had tried this?

Anytime anyone talks about any glove situation regarding boxing they will revisit that collins/resto fight because of the magnitude and aftermath of the whole situation...its not rocket science..

The thing that were wrong with those gloves were that they looked broken into which was why they looked flimsey and wrinkled around the seems...they were wrapped in suran wrap, which is another red flag.. the red ones looked more compact then the blue ones thats for sure..

Now regarding margacheato, no one can really say how long he was using illegal wraps for it could go all the way back to the first cintron fight we dont know that, one thing is for sure and i strongly believe he used illegal wraps in his fight with cotto,and would have used them on floyd had they fought back in 06..thank god ****m richardson caught him...but there is no issue on the gloves this time and when maidana loses will you be on here still *****ing about maidana not wearing the mx gloves?? Id bet that you will