Bigger Gloves Allow Punches To Be Loaded Up On More...

[GrandpaBernard]

but why are knockouts more likely to happen with smaller gloves

The big gloves provide more protection, so people can power punch as they please

[Scott9945]

Bigger gloves diminish your hand speed and torque. And that's a big part of power punching.

[TBear]

Yes, because punchers prefer pillows.

[MartinC]

This about Maidana-Mayweather?

[Mugwump]

Force = Pressure x Area

All things being equal, bigger gloves generate greater force.

but...

Pressure = Force / Area

ATBE, smaller gloves generate greater pressure (or - don't cross a frozen lake on a pogo stick).

There are a host of other forces, calculations, probabilities etc. coiling around, between - within - both fighters like quicksilver serpents every split second. Sometimes clever people provide an insight into the mind-bogglingly complex mathematics of real time boxing physics - drawing cheers from all those others who THANK GOD boxing isn't solely about having a RAIL GUN for a right hand.

[Ben Bolt]

but why are knockouts more likely to happen with smaller gloves

Not too small, though.

I remember this discussion some years ago, where boxing experts felt the necessary of bigger (i.e. more padded) gloves to become obligatory as they feared the next generation heavyweights would be so strong, they would kill each other with a single punch.

While the doctors said, it would be safer if the fighters didn't have any gloves at all. Because they would break the bones in their hands before killing anyone.

[StarshipTrooper]

Not too small, though.

I remember this discussion some years ago, where boxing experts felt the necessary of bigger (i.e. more padded) gloves to become obligatory as they feared the next generation heavyweights would be so strong, they would kill each other with a single punch.

While the doctors said, it would be safer if the fighters didn't have any gloves at all. Because they would break the bones in their hands before killing anyone.

That's why boxing gloves were invented in the first place: Not to protect the guy getting punched, but to protect the hands of the guy doing the punching

[#1Assassin]

That's why boxing gloves were invented in the first place: Not to protect the guy getting punched, but to protect the hands of the guy doing the punching

yep.. watch some really old fights and guys picked their punches very carefully and basically never put them together. they didnt have much choice though, land one punch on the forehead or elbow and there goes your hand. then you may have another 50 rounds to go with one good hand, provided you are lucky enough you havent hurt that one already.

imagine just hitting someone on the elbow wearing bag gloves, not pleasant.

[E. O. Wilson]

I've been a long time anti-big-glove person.

Measuring your punches so you don't break your fingers > brain damage from repetitive blunt force trauma.

If you want to protect the fighters you make the combat as natural as possible (small bag gloves, just to avoid eyepokes and wound-on-wound contact, etc).

[Elroy1]

Ridiculous as he is, Star Dust has made the correct point.

But there are 2 ways of looking at this.

First, it makes physical sense and it has been proven that the force of a punch between big gloves and light gloves is exactly the same. The extra weight of the glove is nullified by the reduced speed and vice verse. But more importantly, the force of a big gloved punch is not diminished it is just spread more evenly over the target but is essentially the same.

It's proven that modern boxers with bigger more padded gloves suffer MORE extensive brain damage (not less) as a result of the above. This is of course because the boxers can withstand many more shots before they become disabled (by loss of consciousness almost exclusively now.

Score for you guys who want gloves reduced.

BUT..

The other side of the coin is that the smaller the gloves, the greater the structural damage. Skin, joints, muscle, connective tissue, bone. When boxers were barefisted or had very small gloves, fights were stopped earlier and therefore there was much less brain damage. However the horrific injuries sustained in those periods were EXACTLY WHAT PROMPTED bigger gloves in the first place! (whether speaking of hands or head interchangeably or even serious body damage)

Boxing is ALWAYS going to be a dangerous sport and it's always gonna be frowned on by the medical community (except me, I love it LOL). But do you really want to go back to those times? Let me tell you they cannot. Because if ppl saw those types of injuries today in the 21st Century, Boxing would not survive, it'd be shut down. Mutilated heads and hands and ribs are unacceptable now days in society. There would be an immediate push for bigger gloves again. Brain damage is the price to pay sure, but that is a long term and more unseen danger that doesn't immediately shock ppl. Like smoking! I hope you all understand!