On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:54:24 -0500, "Simple Simon"
wrote:




"Maynard G. Krebbs" wrote in message ...

Sorry Mr. Simon but boxing gloves are to protect the fighters hands.
They do nothing to soften the effects. Modern fighters can hit harder
with the gloves without breaking their hands than bareknuckle
fighters.

Old bareknuckle fighters used to push, shove and wrestle a lot. Most
blows were to the body.

Ask on rec.sport.boxing if you wish.

Mark E. Williams


You, sir, are a knucklehead! Boxing gloves were required
to keep boxers from killing each other regularly. An
ungloved hand can and will do much more damage than
a gloved hand. The ungloved hand transfers much more
pounds per square inch force than a gloved hand. The
ungloved hand causes much greater bone breakage of
the nose, jaw and occipital orbit than the gloved hand.
The bare hand causes much greater and severe cuts
than does the gloved hand.

I don't have to go to some lame boxing newsgroup
frequented by punch-drunk retards like Mike Tyson
to know that the laws of physics apply in boxing as
in everything else including the fact that a lead keel
softens the blow to the hull just as a boxing glove
softens the blow to any fool's head who attempts
to argue with me.

S.Simon


Ah, yes. Physics. As in thin finger bones smashing aginst thick
skull bones.
Theory aside, old-time bareknuckle fighters punched almost exclusively
to the body.

Mark E. Williams