Will Fury's gloves be flapping on Saturday Night?

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by shadow111, Oct 8, 2021.


Will Fury's gloves be flapping on Saturday Night?

Poll closed Oct 8, 2021.
  1. Yes

    10 vote(s)
    27.8%
  2. No

    26 vote(s)
    72.2%
  1. Brumsongs

    Brumsongs Member Full Member

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    I very much hope that something about them looks dubious so that Wilder's fans are driven barmy into their dotage about it. I like to imagine them rocking back and forth in their nursing homes mumbling, 'The gloves, the gloves,' until it's time for the nurse to change their incontinence pads.
     
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  2. vast

    vast Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    His gloves will be flapping upside Donkeys dented head.
     
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  3. vast

    vast Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    By the way a pointless thread. Mods please delete.
     
  4. BUDW

    BUDW Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Only to the excuse makers
     
  5. BubblesUK

    BubblesUK Doesn't buy hypejobs Full Member

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    You keep on saying this as if the question of whether they were flapping or not is even relevant.

    It's not.

    Gloves flapping would be a handicap - absolutely nothing controversial to see here, no possibility of even the slightest advantage to be gained from it.

    Only someone with zero knowledge AND zero experience could even begin to try and make a point about it having any advantages at all.



    With that in mind... It doesn't matter if the gloves, which are known for a relative lack of rigidity to begin with, look like they might have been loose.

    If they were loose then they were a handicap that still didn't stop Fury being the superior fighter in both bouts - but this is hardly an important point anyway.
     
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  6. shadow111

    shadow111 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I'm not making the argument that the flappy gloves were a benefit to Fury. I think it's debatable but I also pointed out that if the results are any indication, Fury almost got KO'd in the first fight and only got a draw while wearing the flappy gloves but in the rematch he did better stopping Wilder with tighter fitted gloves. So I'm not disagreeing with you on that, as far as this being relevant it's very relevant as it's been a major talking point in the lead up to the trilogy.
     
  7. shadow111

    shadow111 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Yeah I meant like compared to the first two fights. In subsequent posts I made it clear that the flapping gloves was only evident in the first fight, I even went as far as to say he did better in the rematch when the gloves weren't flapping like in the first fight.
     
  8. BubblesUK

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    You're word-vomiting.

    You very much are making the argument that it matters otherwise you'd have accepted the simplest of facts by now.

    It's definitely not debatable - it's a handicap, no ifs, buts or maybes, it's pure handicap.

    I'll be blunt, but you don't "think" it's debatable, you "believe" it's debatable - thinking in any way, shape or form cannot lead you to such a bat**** crazy belief... I don't know you too well, but if I had to guess, you've taken someone else's dogma and run with it - don't be that guy.
     
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  9. BubblesUK

    BubblesUK Doesn't buy hypejobs Full Member

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    Only amongst conspiracy theorists - people desperate to excuse Wilder's abject performance with whatever bull**** excuse might stick with casuals.

    Nobody with even a fraction of the first clue takes this nonsense seriously. Nobody.
     
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  10. shadow111

    shadow111 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I think it matters, I think it could be a benefit or it could be a hindrance depending on how punches are thrown or received. If you connect on a hook where a fist lands on skull because the padding is flapping around and the fist that lands isn't padded, that's a benefit. It's a benefit if judges are seeing the flappy extended part of the glove land and score a round differently because of it. It's a hindrance if the flappy part of the glove lands less flush because the padding is loose.
     
  11. shadow111

    shadow111 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    It was asked by the host of the press conference on Wednesday. It's not nonsense, plenty of people on this forum have accused fighters of using illegal wraps. We can plainly see the gloves were flapping around in the first fight. Fury fans are very sensitive about these allegations, but had no problem accusing other fighters of using illegal wraps like Canelo when Abel Sanchez complained of stacking which was legal in Vegas.
     
  12. Oddone

    Oddone Bermane Stiverne's life coach. Full Member

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    This.
     
  13. lobk

    lobk Original ESB Member Full Member

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    Mod Can we merge all these ******ed glove threads into one ??
     
  14. Pimp C

    Pimp C Too Much Motion Full Member

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    I'm sure they will show Wilders camp checking the gloves on the broadcast.
     
  15. Reppin501

    Reppin501 The People's Champ Full Member

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    Of course it is because Fury would never cheat…except the time he was literally banned for 2 years for cheating. Outside of that he’d never ever cheat. Fair point.