Glove/No Glove

[platinummatt]

Ive put a glove on before and tapped myself i the stomach, and it bad compared ot barefist. But your have your knucles there when its barefist. I think the hit of a glove may be more solid, but barefist may be more painfull and boney

[Pork Chop]

Let's put it this way:
in bareknuckle days people died from body shots (pretty much exclusively)
with gloves people now die from head shots (pretty much exclusively)

Glove has more surface area which is why less localized damage, more concussive force- better for body, bad for brain.

Punches hurt your hand much less with gloves.

[deh707]

i'm guessing yes it would hurt more without gloves for 2 reasons i can think of:

1. no glove = no extra weight on hands, so punches would be faster and probably stronger.

2. punches are no longer softlike/leatherlike. it's the human knuckles covered in human flesh.

[nitepanther]

I don't know if this is a good way to describe but here's how it feels to me. Punches without gloves hurt no matter what but it's only short term damage (stinging, cuts, bruises). But for me whenever I've been hit in the head with someone wearing gloves it was never really painful but more like very disorienting and I could tell something was getting ****ed up in my head. But even with the gloves on it's potentially more risky when you're looking in the long term (brain damage).

[hemichromis]

as far as punching someone i the jaw goes; no gloves is alot better it is so much easier to ko someone but you shouldn't be punching the skull without gloves