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boxing gloves, like football helmets have resulted in more injuries
they used to get more bloody sure but they were cosmetic wounds. Now with a 5lb block on your fist there is a lot more force to it resulting in broken bones. and football players using their heads as battering rams
But one change seen by some as making the sport more safe has made it more dangerous: ever-plumper boxing gloves. Heavy gloves (as opposed to mere mitts) were first worn in a world heavyweight championship fight in 1992 in New Orleans, when "Gentleman Jim' Corbett wrested the title from John L- Sullivan, who was famous as "the Boston Strong Boy” and infamous as a brutish drunk who on entering a saloon habitually roared: "I can lick any man in the house." Since then the regulation gloves have got heavier and heavier until today rniddleweights and above, like Gerald McClellan and Nigel Bent, not only wear 10-ounce (283-gram) gloves but are also permitted to have each hand wrapped in up to 18 feet (5.5 metres) of bandage held in place by 9 to 11 feet of zinc-oxide tape.
This padding helps the hitter and hurts the hittee. Since the bones in a man's head are stronger than the bones in a man's fists, a bare-knuckle fighter risks damaging himself more than his opponent if he hits as hard as he can when he aims punches at the head. Unless he has unusually brittle hands, a boxer whose fists are protected by cushions has no such inhibitions. He can hit to the head with full force without much risk of injuring his hands—and so add to the number of boxers who end up on the slab or with pugilistica dementia.
TL;DR: gloves dampen the impact for the hitter, but do nothing for the hittee.
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[–] PraiseIPU 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
boxing gloves, like football helmets have resulted in more injuries
they used to get more bloody sure but they were cosmetic wounds. Now with a 5lb block on your fist there is a lot more force to it resulting in broken bones. and football players using their heads as battering rams
[–] ginganinja ago
Yes.
TL;DR: gloves dampen the impact for the hitter, but do nothing for the hittee.
Source: http://www.economist.com/news/international/21639765-bare-knuckle-fights-would-break-more-hands-fewer-heads-hang-up-boxing-gloves