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

Smaller gloves???.......then this wouldnt be boxing it be MMA.....so no changes

 

Pulver has had 4 boxing matches, all against fellow novices or guys with huge losing records. Belfort fought people that looked like they stepped up from the audience they were that bad. Lidell is a terrible boxer.

 

Difference is that in 20 years from now, no one will know about .... um, which MMA fighter has dominated for more than a couple of years? atsch So the focus will be a lot less on that.



Smaller gloves will cause more body-punch KO's, but lesser head-KO's.
A small glove will focus the damage on a small spot of the face and is very hard: it will do a lot of local, superfacial damage like cuts, bruises, broken bones, etc. But it will not that easy knock a man unconscious.
However, a larger glove, say anything more than 6 or 8oz, will more or less "push" the head back, causing a twist instead of energy going to breaking bons, skin, etc. The twist of the head is exactly which is what causes a knockout.

On top of that, because no or smaller gloves are a lot more painful, have a big risk to break your own hand as well receive cuts, etc, you will see that just like during pre-1900 boxing, little to no combinations are used, no glove blocking and an awefully slow workrate. Just watch some fights of Jack Johnson, who started in a transition from bareknuckle to gloved style: he did not throw many combinations, it involved a lot of wrestling, barely any outside work (footwork) or block. Basically just a more boring version.


MMA has its own rules and that's just fine. Boxing should keep its own rules.

 

MMA really only adopted the smaller gloves to allow grappling.

Smaller gloves = more hand injuries and cuts stoppages.