MMA Gloves are significant part of sports these days.
There are different categories based on the activity i.e. sparring, bag,
fighting and hybrid. Gloves are necessary for protecting hands from intense and
constant impact. Following are interesting facts about these gloves:
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1) Gloves used in MMA
are open fingered. Open fingered gloves allow more grappling control.
2) Their use was made
obligatory in Japan Shooto promotion.
3) In United States, UFC
14 was the first event which made use of gloves mandatory.
4) Modern MMA gloves
resemble Kempo gloves used by Bruce Lee in the movie Enter the Dragon.
5) First fighter to use
these gloves in UFC was Tank Abbott.
6) These are not weighed
like boxing gloves.
7) First open-fingered
gloves were used in UFC event of 1994.
8) Under UFC rules,
players are allowed to wear 4oz gloves. For wearing 6oz, fighters have to get
prior permission.
9) Contestants have to
wear gloves provided by promoter. In any case fighters cannot wear their own
gloves.
