Don’t buy cheap gloves. Theydon’t last long and end up costing you moreif you have to keep buying new gloves. Design: The design is brilliant. I love the criss-cross pattern of the laces, the different color combinations and the screen-printed rival logo is symmetrical. Those on a budget might buy only a soft pair for sparring, and then use community gloves for bagwork.

http://www.midlandsportspro.com(Look at all the headgear and heavy bags they produce…looks likethe entire TITLE Boxing catalog right here.) Being around the sport of boxing for 15 years now, I’ve developed hand problems from the constant punching. It hurts to throw the same punches that years ago felt like nothing. You cannot punch dense objects year after year and think nothing will happen to your hands. It doesn’t matter how well-conditioned or incredible your genetics are, wear-and-tear is inevitable in a grueling sport like this. It’s made me sensitive to different boxing gloves and able to perceive differences in padding whereas I couldn’t before. This is why pros don’t mess around. Many of them have hand damage and can’t afford to use lesser quality gloves that may shorten their career. The lining should also stay in place and not flop around inside the glove. It’s especially annoying it feels like a loose plastic bag inside your glove. You are not invincible. All young bodies will eventuallydeteriorate. If you take care of yourself, you get to last longer. Hayabusa, however, failed to capture any real respect in the boxing market and I suspect it’s for the all the reasons that I don’t like that brand. As a boxing purist, like other boxing purists, we already had a history and a tradition. I don’t know how to say it, but we respect the “old”. We respect the “old school guys”, the “old school knowledge”, the “old school training”. Boxing has a culture of being “time-tested” and so you were very skeptic of anything new. Our gear was plain and designed to remind us of the old days when times were tough and fighters were tougher. A fancy pretty glove like Hayabusa looked like a toy to us. It looked like something made for children, not for real men, not for real fighters.

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With so many cheap gloves proliferating in the market nowadays, it seems allnew brands are tryingto establishthemselves as “THE NEW PREMIUM BRAND”. This caused manybrands to strategically price themselves higher in hopes of raising consumer appeal. Meanwhile other brands, afraid of offendingtheir loyal fanbase, kept their prices the same which only adds to the current price confusion. Not so surprisingly, it’s much harder nowadays to find quality brands at logical prices!

Century gear is typically found in toy stores and sporting good stores. At toy stores, it’ll be the only option and priced cheaply. At sporting good stores, it’s the cheaper alternative to namebrands (most likely Everlast if you’re in America and Adidas if you’re in Europe).

THE WINNERS – Johnny’s Favorite Boxing Gloves (for training and fighting)

Here’s an insightful forum comment on the decline of Everlast quality over the years: Everlast and Title , same company or no? Overall, these HDE-F Rival RFX Guerrero V Bag Boxing Gloves are a great pair of bag gloves thanks to their supreme wrist support, protection, and high-quality materials used. However, there are some noticeable errors such as the stitching and absence of perforated holes.

Stitching: The edges have frayed stitching which isn’t what you should expect when you look at the price of these gloves. Comfort: Like all of the Rival gloves reviewed on this article, the comfort on these Rival RS100’s is excellent due to the ergonomic shape, with the thumb being in an excellent position, and the fingertip compartment providing depth to easily form a fist. Cons Many fighters (usually pros) will even put tape around their wrist directly on the skin itself as well as around the glove (after they tie up) for extra wrist support. You can do this if you want even more support (power) than what the glove and hand-wraps provide.The #1 “puncher’s glove” in the market. Horsehair model is used in pro fights for maximum power transfer. Professional fight gloves (8oz, 10oz) are usually worn for professional boxing fights, specific boxing training, or by MMA fighters in training. The #1 brand for the past decade if not longer. Winning is the most protective glove ever created, with the best padding cushion (most pillow-ey) thanks to the marvel of Japanese engineering. Top quality materials and perfect construction. Don’t be tempted by lesser brands, these gloves look and feel great! Comes with an expensive price tag to live up to and yet not a single person has ever called them over-priced. Many pros and amateurs refuse to wear anything else. An absolute must for fighters with sensitive/injured hands. Due to its success, Winning’s glove design is the most imitated glove on the market today with every copycat claimingto be ALMOSTas protective as the real thing. ( See full brand review.) Rival produce fantastic boxing gloves and have been doing so since their origin in 2003. The areas that Rival excel in include: