Should boxing consider a modification of its combat style?

Please close this thread. Move to UFC section.

 

Your idea sucks

 

waste of thread space

 

**** Off you MMA pushers are real ****s.
P.S **** MMA

 

This is boxing...not MMA

 

Any boxer who has a KO ratio over 80% would probably kill or mame most of his opponents.

 

They actually did a study trying to find a link and they were surprised to discover that hitting someone with 12oz gloves causes more brain damage than with just a bare fist.

 

spandex and mini trunks
after fights the boxer has to call out someone from behind scenes and low and behold they come out with the whole crowd going crazy
also boxing fans must bring their own signs with them to events so they can show there distain for certain fighters
nd all fighters have to have there own finishing punch which will end the fight if they land it.

YEAH RAWK ON :ldevil









:-patsch **** off. i like to see combinations i like to skills and i like to see effort. ufc has a distinct lack of this.

 

obliterate thread

 

In a 2007 article in The Independent (UK), sports historian Nicholas Hobbes explains that gloves were introduced to make competitions bloodier and briefer. Gloves distribute a blow, but they also add weight to a punch, making it more destructive:

The Marquess of Queensberry rules took off not because society viewed the new sport as more civilised than the old, but because fights conducted under the new guidelines attracted more spectators. Audiences wanted to see repeated blows to the head and dramatic knockouts.

By contrast, the last bare-knuckle heavyweight contest in the US in 1897 dragged on into the 75th round. Since gloves spread the impact of a blow, the recipient of a punch is less likely to be blinded, have their teeth knocked out or their jaw broken. However, gloves do not lessen the force applied to the brain as it rattles inside the skull from a heavy blow. In fact, they make matters worse by adding 10oz to the weight of the fist.

A full-force punch to the head is comparable to being hit with a 12lb padded wooden mallet travelling at 20mph.[...]

As the bare-knuckle campaigner Dr Alan J Ryan pointed out: “In 100 years of bare-knuckle fighting in the United States, which terminated around 1897 with a John L Sullivan heavyweight championship fight, there wasn’t a single ring fatality.” Today, there are three or four every year in the US, and around 15 per cent of professional fighters suffer some form of permanent brain damage during their career.

 

Yeah, not unless you want you see a lot more deaths/serious injuries... Me personally, do not.

 

Yep I've actually heard the same thing... It has to do with the amount of sustained punishment that you absorb because of the pillows you are forced to wear...

A punch that may just hurt you with boxing gloves would probably put you out with just some padded wraps.. It may seem more barbaric but the fact is it really does cause less long term damage..

 

In a 2007 article in The Independent (UK), sports historian Nicholas Hobbes explains that gloves were introduced to make competitions bloodier and briefer. Gloves distribute a blow, but they also add weight to a punch, making it more destructive:

The Marquess of Queensberry rules took off not because society viewed the new sport as more civilised than the old, but because fights conducted under the new guidelines attracted more spectators. Audiences wanted to see repeated blows to the head and dramatic knockouts.

By contrast, the last bare-knuckle heavyweight contest in the US in 1897 dragged on into the 75th round. Since gloves spread the impact of a blow, the recipient of a punch is less likely to be blinded, have their teeth knocked out or their jaw broken. However, gloves do not lessen the force applied to the brain as it rattles inside the skull from a heavy blow. In fact, they make matters worse by adding 10oz to the weight of the fist.

A full-force punch to the head is comparable to being hit with a 12lb padded wooden mallet travelling at 20mph.[...]

As the bare-knuckle campaigner Dr Alan J Ryan pointed out: “In 100 years of bare-knuckle fighting in the United States, which terminated around 1897 with a John L Sullivan heavyweight championship fight, there wasn’t a single ring fatality.” Today, there are three or four every year in the US, and around 15 per cent of professional fighters suffer some form of permanent brain damage during their career.

 

I don't buy it, studies conflict all the time, just research scientists trying to get paid. Without gloves there would be tons of broken bones, limbs, organs, deaths.