Quote (Holynorth @ Aug 10 2023 06:32pm)
Nah, this is wrong. There’s a reason you spar with 16oz in MMA. There’s enough padding to punch hard enough in smaller gloves, but with larger gloves, the difference is the size of the glove transfers the force over a larger area on top of slowing hand speed down.
Even amateur promotions require 16oz. They wouldn’t do that if people were hitting harder in them. And trust me, spar against someone with 10 or 12 oz gloves and you’ll be demanding they put on 16oz.
Maybe I worded it poorly but read below:
"Do Boxing Gloves Or MMA Gloves Do More Damage?
There are different types of damage suffered from taking shots. MMA gloves are thinner and more rigid and make cuts and bruises commonplace occurrences.
In MMA fights, the superficial damage is usually more, and the bloody sights make people think the glove does much more damage. But there is far more to this issue than it meets the eye.
Although boxing gloves cushion the hit, they spread the force of the blow and damage the brain more. Studies show that a punch delivered by a bare-knuckle fist carries more force than a punch with MMA or boxing glove.
But the boxing glove provides much more protection to the hands and allows fighters to throw punches with full power and without too much worry of where they will land. On top of that, less force and less visible damage mean the fight will go longer. And in a multi-round fight, this leads to more damage to the most critical organ in the body- the brain.
So while MMA gloves do more visible damage in the form of cuts and bruises, the damage to the brain dealt by boxing gloves can be much greater."
https://sweetscienceoffighting.com/boxing-gloves-vs-mma-gloves/Yes 16oz gloves are safer thats why they are used for amateur events but if you think a fighter wearing a 4oz glove can punch harder for longer and deal more brain trauma than a fighter wearing a 10oz glove you're incorrect.
Boxing is a sport of damage, if there was another glove option that would lead to more damage to the brain they would be using it but if they switched to smaller gloves there would be too many injuries to the fighters wearing them.