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Boxing gloves have been around in one form or another closely since the beginning of boxing 3000 years ago. The ancient Greeks applied to wrap their hands in leather strips in an try to protect their hands. But there was no padding in these early boxing gloves, just leather to protect the boxer’s hands. Most humans mistakenly assume that boxing gloves have always existed to protect the person being hit. But the bones in your hand are very little and fragile. The padding provided by boxing gloves is as much to protect the person swinging as to protect the person on the other end of the swing. When the Romans picked up boxing as a sport from the Greeks they unluckily turned it into a life or death type gladiator event. They continued to use Greek style leather strips as gloves. However, they hardened the leather and attached metal studs and spikes to the strips. As a result, in a good deal of ancient Roman boxing matches the loser ended up dead or permanently maimed. This was too brutal for even the ancient Romans. They made boxing illegal in all Roman cities and provinces in 30 B.C. This distaste for boxing was so outstanding in the Roman Empire that the ban continued in the entire Western civilization for over 1500 years. When boxing in the long run reappeared in the late 1600s it was of the bare-knuckled variety. However, because of the more civilized approach taken to boxing it was not long before boxing gloves resurfaced as well. This time, padding was added. Jack Broughton, who was a British boxing champ in the early 1700s, is widely considered to be the inventor of the progressed padded boxing gloves. However, these padded leather boxing gloves of the 1600s and 1700s were only applied in exercise and for informal boxing matches. The major public boxing matches were still bare-knuckle events. But persons were dying in these bare-knuckle matches, so something had to be done. Strangely, however, the boxing rules traditionalisti in the 1700s and much of the 1800s did not require or even mention the use of boxing gloves. Boxers were very reluctant to give up the purity of bare knuckles fisticuffs. As a result, in a good deal of constituents of the world boxing was banned in the 1800s and picked up it is seedy reputation that proceeds today. The beginning of the end for bare-knuckle boxing started in 1866 when John Graham Chambers in London published the now widely known and esteemed Queensbury Rules. Among other things, these rules required the use of padded boxing gloves for all boxing matches. By the beginning of the 20th century the Queensbury rules were used everyplace and bare-knuckles boxing was gone from established boxing events. The last of the bare-knuckle boxing champions was John L. Sullivan. He lost his championship in 1892 to the primary of the Marquise of Queensbury rules champions, “Gentleman Jim” Corbett. Not too surprisingly, the match was kept under the Queensbury rules and both combatants wore padded boxing gloves. Today boxing gloves are specified by weight. The heavier the boxing gloves, the safer they are for both contestants. This is not just because they are padded more. The higher weight means the boxers can’t swing as fast as they may with lighter gloves. Most helpful customer reviews 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. 0 of 2 people found the following review helpful. |
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