Buying gloves

You should take a look at my 16 oz 'Sugar' gloves, honestly, they are tiny. If I were to show them to you, you would swear that they were no more than 10 oz. One of my fighters has another pair of 16 oz everlast gloves and they are literally twice the size of mine.

 

stupid question here, i know gloves go by weight, if you have 2 gloves at the same weight, but both a different sizes, one gloves being heaps bigger then the other, which gloves is better and which gloves has the better protection for your fist and sparring partners. I have seen this myself 2 pairs of 16oz gloves completely differnt sizes, how accurate is the weight, how can the size of the gloves differ so much.

 

The weight is usually pretty much bob on. The size doesn't effect how much protection the glove gives you in most cases. The IMF tech gloves which I referred to earlier have the best protection that I have ever come across, barring Winning gloves, and the IMF tech's are a very small glove.

 

For bagwork i use 10oz boxing gloves....thye offer more padding than skin thin bag gloves, which means it offers that little bit more protection from jarring.

In Sparring i use 16-18oz gloves.They protect my hand and weaken the punch just a little to the benefit of my spar partner if i let one go a bit harder when the tempo picks up like it can do in sparring.

I have looked at weight of many gloves and found the weight in some gloves is all around the wrist area and with very little padding where the knuckles are. To me the idea of heavier gloves is meant to be all about the extra weight of the padding that is used forward of the knuckles.:bbb

 

Rival's - nice choice!

 

Sweet gloves mate!

 

is there any heavier than 16oz?
how much would a good pair of 16oz gloves cost?

 

You can get 18 and 20 oz gloves. You can also get gloves which have a series of small pockets in which you add weights.

Prices vary, a lot depends on where you are. Gloves are typically pretty expensive in the uk, but you can get a decent glove for about £60. Gloves are cheaper in the us, you can get a good pair of imf's or grant's for about $80

 

hey punk i was saying what i was asking was a stupid question, not the thread, and how would you know whether i have ever shopped for gloves or not. What i was sayng about the size difference in the same weight gloves is from experience because i have gloves at the same weight that are completely different sizes

 

Thats exactly the way i see it, i thought extra weight would mean some extra padding around the knuckle area. Not extra weight around the wrist, because if all the weight was around the wrist what would be the difference between sparring with 10oz or 16oz