Comments Thread For: Mayweather, McGregor Face Opposition To 8-Ounce Glove Request

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

McGregor is going to get hurt. Im 90 percent sure he will be hurt badly. The last time a MMA fighter stepped in the boxing ring he was literally murdered

[D4thincarnation]

These Doctors are idiots, it is the bigger gloves that cause the damage.

It is not the bluntness of force that does the damage it is your head getting flung back and then your neck stopping it from flying off, when your brain is still moving inside causing it to crash against your skull.

Bigger gloves make this more likely to happen, while the smaller glove will create more facial damage absorbing the impact their will be a reduction in inertia of the brain.


The introduction of gloves into the sport of boxing made brain injuries sky rocket.

[D4thincarnation]

Wtf u approved a fight between a guy who has 49 fights and a guu with 0 pro boxing fights but you cant allow this? ****ing nonsense

Exactly that is where it should have been stopped.

If McGreggor suffers any permanent damage, his family should sue the **** out of NSAC

[Shape up]

floyd has fought in 8 oz gloves his whole life ******... He fought mosley, marquez, manny, judah and maidana all in 8 0z gloves ******....

And made sure they weren't horse hair, you have obviously never put gloves on couch potato, the bigger the glove the more absobsion of the punch, Connor will be way bigger than Floyd and if he does happen to land one clean with 8s, it going to cause damage, maidana caught Floyd right at the end of the round with a right and rattled him hard, it was lucky for Floyd it was right on the bell, Connor obviously has reasonable power and 8s will help

[LockardTheGOAT]

But you don't have any proof to think that it won't.

Could you argue that to a jury successfully? Could you argue that Conor, as a complete novice, was totally and wholly aware of the risks? Surely that's the job of the NSAC, to keep him safe.

Look, I'm just playing devil's advocate here. I know the score and so do you. But the fact is, it doesn't matter if Conor agreed to it or not. The point of the NSAC is that they are there to implement rules and regulations that safeguard and protect the welfare of fighters. Otherwise anyone could fight anyone, gloves or no gloves, at any weight, just because they want to.

Simply by saying 'well they agreed to it' is not a defence to negligence.

I'm just saying, try and convince a jury that the totally random one-off waiver you signed that allowed these fighters to wear 8oz gloves had absolutely no bearing on the fact the first-time boxer ended up with brain damage. You'd get torn apart by a decent lawyer.

Will it happen? Hopefully not. It's not likely, and I don't think 8oz would make a difference if it was to happen. But the scenario above will absolutely feature in NSAC's decision making process.

That burden of proof lies on you, buddy boy, not me. You're the one who needs to demonstrate that two less ounces in the gloves would carry a high enough risk of hazard to the fighters' health that they shouldn't be allowed to compete with them.

And if Conor McGregor f'n agrees and even advocates using gloves of that size, then how the hell would he (or his family) be able to sue them after the fact should he get hurt? The man even comes from a sport where they all wear 4oz gloves for goodness sake.

[Cinci Champ]

Changing the glove size at this point would kind of **** up a lot of bets would it not?

Faster KO with 8 ounce gloves than 10 ounce, different UD vs KO odds, rds before a KD, etc.

who cares doubt that matters at all bets are placed all time then boxers miss weight come in bigger etc that literally doesnt matter

[The Problem Child]

**** the The Association of Ringside Physicians.

[aceventura]

and made sure they weren't horse hair, you have obviously never put gloves on couch potato, the bigger the glove the more absobsion of the punch, connor will be way bigger than floyd and if he does happen to land one clean with 8s, it going to cause damage, maidana caught floyd right at the end of the round with a right and rattled him hard, it was lucky for floyd it was right on the bell, connor obviously has reasonable power and 8s will help

maidana was 170 pounds dumbass....

[Gunpowdergreg]

What does it matter, really? It's not like Floyd hasn't fought in 8oz before; he knows the difference and it's not in his agenda to let it be a factor. It really only matters to he whom gets hit with the gloves. Touché, Floyd.

[Spoon23]

McGregor is going to get hurt. Im 90 percent sure he will be hurt badly. The last time a MMA fighter stepped in the boxing ring he was literally murdered

Not really. You have to factor in, Conor will be a bigger man in the ring. He will get hurt, but not vanquished/brutally hurt.