January 6th, 2008
Boxing Gloves: Everything You Need To Know!
The most important piece of equipment for a boxer is their boxing gloves. When boxing first started many hundreds of years ago, boxers did not use boxing gloves at all. These boxers were known as gladiators, because they fought with their bare hands, and sometimes these fights ended in death.
However as we became more civilized, we realized that this was too brutal of a way for boxers to fight. At this time boxing gloves were first introduced to help protect a fighter’s hands while boxing. These original boxing gloves were called “mufflers”, because they “muffled” the blow on the fighter’s face and hands. However these gloves were not used during matches at first, but only during training. Conventional boxing gloves were not used until much later, but these initial gloves did help to make strides in the protection of boxers.