if mma utilize small gloves for punching, should boxing consider smaller gloves too?

Boxing is boxing . . . MMA is MMA . . . two different contact sports. The boxing organizations or commision will never change anything in boxing based on what MMA is doing.

 

The reason MMA can do this is because they have 3 rounds. 12 round fights with those small gloves is near to impossible. Maybe 90 years back, but in 2008, 12 grueling bloody rounds... no dude I don't think so.

Politics and commissions would never allow that.

 

I'm not even sure that spectacular KO's would occur that much more frequently. I just think everyone would be breaking their hands, and a stoppage on cuts would occur ten times more frequently than a genuine knockout.

 

And everybody (all the fighters from all weights) would be very carefull to not get hit. So the average thrown punches per round will be reduced to a quarter of that.

 

With smaller gloves that blow probably would have killed Norris

 

no, dumb question. look at all the boxers that suffer from punch drunk and all those other diseases from blows 2 the head willie pep, freddie roach and (its cliche but hey) muhammed ali ALL THOSE GUYS, MMA is a young sport and its just a matter of time til the affect of 4oz glove beatdowns start 2 show (not 2 mention elbows and knees)

 

Is that true though? On the surface you may think thats logical...but it is the sustained constant beating to the head that I believe causes the long-term damage - not the one-punch early knockout.

 

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MMA slugfest.

 

Broken bones? MMA fighters wear very small gloves their bones certainly dont break.

I think there should be smaller gloves in boxing, not MMA small but 10oz is too big and ensures only one thing a more sustained beating to the head for longer periods of time and less knockouts.

 

Boxers are light years away from MMA fighters in the striking department. Smaller gloves mean more broken hands and more ring deaths. The size is fine. Think about your favorite fighter. Would you want him to be mentally ******ed after he ends his career? And oh yea shorter careers even. I want fighters to stay healthy too. They are human not actors that can just recover at the end of the day.