Fighting Sports Gloves vs. Rivals Gloves

[Hannibal Barca]

I'm interested in purchasing myself a new pair of gloves, and if I'm shelling out the money I want the best value for my dollar. I've skimmed through some gloves, and I've narrowed it down to these two sets.

Fighting Sports
http://store.titleboxing.com/fightin...ng-gloves.html

Rivals
http://store.titleboxing.com/rival-e...ag-gloves.html

For those who've used each, or both, how do you feel about them and which do you prefer? If you recommend any other gloves, please give your input.

Gloves will be used mostly for bag work. Fighting Sports has a hybrid sparring/bag glove as well.

[FM3O]

I have the Fighting Sport Tritech Glives in Velcro that I was use for everything except sparring, and they are the most underrated gloves in my opinion. I find them more comfortable then the lace up grants that I use for sparring even. There protection of the hand and wrist is extremely good, and the quality and durability of the gloves is very good. I reccomend these.

As far as the Rival goes, I've never owned a pair,
but I've used a pair and they didn't seem very impressive. A fighter from out of town came into my gym recently for sparring and had a pair, and I asked him about them as I was thinking of getting a pair myself, and he said they fell apart really quickly.

[Hannibal Barca]

I have the Fighting Sport Tritech Glives in Velcro that I was use for everything except sparring, and they are the most underrated gloves in my opinion. I find them more comfortable then the lace up grants that I use for sparring even. There protection of the hand and wrist is extremely good, and the quality and durability of the gloves is very good. I reccomend these.

As far as the Rival goes, I've never owned a pair,
but I've used a pair and they didn't seem very impressive. A fighter from out of town came into my gym recently for sparring and had a pair, and I asked him about them as I was thinking of getting a pair myself, and he said they fell apart really quickly.

Thank you, I really appreciate your input. The Fighting Sports Tri-Tech series seems to be the next best thing to Winnings, which in my opinion, are overly expensive.

[Skuzzles]

For bag work I would go with the Fighting Sports gloves.

The rivals are decent, but I would stick to only using their sparring gloves if you have to.

[fdotorres]

Go with rival elite bag gloves. they are 10x better than fighting, provide better wrist protection

neither one falls apart easily.

fighting are horrible gloves for their price IMO, they seemed o focus more on making them look like winning instead of making them feel like winning. they're OK gloves, but severely overpriced

as a guy who's owned both rival (elite bag gloves) and fighting (tri-tec training gloves, original bag gloves) and can tell you that rivals are much, much better

[Hannibal Barca]

So that's two for fighting sports, one for Rivals. Any more input?

[them_apples]

I'm interested in purchasing myself a new pair of gloves, and if I'm shelling out the money I want the best value for my dollar. I've skimmed through some gloves, and I've narrowed it down to these two sets.

Fighting Sports
http://store.titleboxing.com/fightin...ng-gloves.html

Rivals
http://store.titleboxing.com/rival-e...ag-gloves.html

For those who've used each, or both, how do you feel about them and which do you prefer? If you recommend any other gloves, please give your input.

Gloves will be used mostly for bag work. Fighting Sports has a hybrid sparring/bag glove as well.

I've owned a pair of both and fighting is far superior. the rivals lining tears, i'm not the only one whose had this problem with rivals.

[DeepSleep]

The Rivals gloves are much more comfortable and easy on your hands and wrist, but like others mine ripped after around a year, but since they were a gift I wasn't too upset. Take note that they run a little small so consider buying a size up. My pair ripped because my hands were to tight in the glove and the material was getting stretched and brushed against too much.

I don't own the Fighting Gloves but I have worn them a few times and I was very disappointed, the padding is very easy to displace and the wrist support is very poor compared to the Rivals glove. I think they spent to much time trying to copy Winning and forgot to actually make a good glove.

Personally I wouldn't buy either glove to be honest but if I was forced I would take the Rivals glove.

[shogunn]

goodluck on those fighting tritechs.

Ive spent the past 3 days trying to order them, only to find out theyre backordered. The hook and loops is backordered till mid july, the laceups till October.

Ive read these Triumphs are the next best thing next to Winning. Theres alot of reviews online showing them side by side, and they are nearly identical.

I was going to order the laceups with a hook and loop converter but theyre out of 16oz. Ive read the hook and loop versions are really bad.




So I ended up ordering the IMFs from ringside this morning. Shipping was a *****, but heard good reviews on them.

http://www.ringside.com/Ringside-IMF.../MFTG%20E/3885

[shogunn]

Anyone else have any opinions on teh best hook and loop gloves? Or does anyone use the hook and loop converter? Ive been searching mad this whole week