Re:I’m the Wife of a Former N.F.L. Player. Football Destroye...
by kasey_junk on Friday February 02, 2018 @09:54PM
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I arrived at it simply by looking at the evidence. There is virtually none that indicates that given the same number of punches, glove size matters much.
any change that would bring the head punch count down to ufc levels would likely have similar safety improvements.
The evidence is really sketchy but early research indicates Thai boxing has a bigger incidence of brain trauma than western boxing than ufc and boxing do. The glove is essentially the same.
How did you arrive at that conclusion? It's fairly well established that boxing gloves have dramatically increased both number of punches to the head as well as the force of the punch. You don't bare-knuckle punch someone in the skull much, it hurts the person doing the punch not just the one being punched. Gloves change that dramatically, resulting in not just more punches to the head but also harder punches to the head (more weight behind the punch from the gloves themselves if nothing else).
Boxing hasn't changed back to bare-knuckle because it would make the sport more gruesome visually even though it would almost certainly be safer for the participants.