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I don’t know that 4oz gloves are the problem. Boxers have more brain damage if anything and they wear 10oz for their fights. Gloves protect the hands and wrists

I don’t know that 4oz gloves are the problem. Boxers have more brain damage if anything and they wear 10oz for their fights. Gloves protect the hands and wrists and your face from cuts I feel like

kevinmchugh 3y ago
Bigger gloves are useful for defense. You can catch a lot with big gloves that you can't with little ones. What's gonna matter most is how the athletes train, how hard they get hit in sparring. A very long professional career might be 30-50 fights, but that's thousands of hours of training. If you're spending much of that sparring hard, even if you don't get many concussions, the cte is going to build up
- sebastiennight 3y ago
  What's the "cte"?
  - kevinmchugh 3y ago
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopathy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalop...
  - YawningAngel 3y ago
    Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Zanni 3y ago
In fact, the 10oz gloves that boxers wear allow them to hit their opponents' heads harder and more often, resulting in more brain damage. In MMA, we typically see a few light blows followed by a knockout blow or a quick flurry of head strikes before the fight is stopped. In a boxing match, the fighters can trade head shots for 15 rounds ...
- mtalantikite 3y ago
  Is this true? I actually haven’t been hit with 4oz gloves, but I train a lot with 10oz gloves and while they hit harder than my 16oz, I’d assume the 4oz hurt more. Or at least cut more and cause superficial damage since you have less padding for your opponent. My thought was that since western boxing is limited to hands and standup, you’re going to go for headshots a lot more. You’re limited in your weapons. Muay Thai has a lot more options, and since punching scores less, you end up with a lot more shots to the body. I only brought up the 4oz gloves in my original comment because I just don’t enjoy watching the style of lots of punching headshots as much. I feel like modern scoring and use of gloves that get through guards easily changes the style and encourages more punching to the face, which isn’t what I find artful in Muay Thai. My personal weapon of choice is going for knees.

I don’t know that 4oz gloves are the problem. Boxers have more brain damage if anything and they wear 10oz for their fights. Gloves protect the hands and wrists and your face from cuts I feel like

kevinmchugh 3y ago

Bigger gloves are useful for defense. You can catch a lot with big gloves that you can't with little ones. What's gonna matter most is how the athletes train, how hard they get hit in sparring. A very long professional career might be 30-50 fights, but that's thousands of hours of training. If you're spending much of that sparring hard, even if you don't get many concussions, the cte is going to build up

sebastiennight 3y ago
What's the "cte"?
- kevinmchugh 3y ago
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopathy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalop...
- YawningAngel 3y ago
  Chronic traumatic encephalopathy

Zanni 3y ago

In fact, the 10oz gloves that boxers wear allow them to hit their opponents' heads harder and more often, resulting in more brain damage. In MMA, we typically see a few light blows followed by a knockout blow or a quick flurry of head strikes before the fight is stopped. In a boxing match, the fighters can trade head shots for 15 rounds ...

mtalantikite 3y ago
Is this true? I actually haven’t been hit with 4oz gloves, but I train a lot with 10oz gloves and while they hit harder than my 16oz, I’d assume the 4oz hurt more. Or at least cut more and cause superficial damage since you have less padding for your opponent. My thought was that since western boxing is limited to hands and standup, you’re going to go for headshots a lot more. You’re limited in your weapons. Muay Thai has a lot more options, and since punching scores less, you end up with a lot more shots to the body. I only brought up the 4oz gloves in my original comment because I just don’t enjoy watching the style of lots of punching headshots as much. I feel like modern scoring and use of gloves that get through guards easily changes the style and encourages more punching to the face, which isn’t what I find artful in Muay Thai. My personal weapon of choice is going for knees.