The UFC has introduced new official fight gloves for all fighters 🔥 pic.twitter.com/HbgHxMKyD1
— ESPN MMA (@espnmma) April 12, 2024
They look the same.
Maybe one more thread about these fuckin gloves and you’ll get a free pair?
I see zero difference
They did nothing to address eye pokes with these. Not even mentioned in the article. It talks about being better for preventing glove grabbing, which isn’t even much of an issue, but nothing about eye pokes.
They’ve been on it -since Romero vs. Kennedy. Little by little
Duncan French got up there and lied his ass off…the guy is a joke. He was saying “you can’t change the gloves without changing the sport”…“you can’t irradicate eyepokes from mma”…“our research shows they don’t occur very often, they only happen 36 times a year since 2019, so it’s a small number”…
Meanwhile there’s gloves already designed to stop pokes on the market. All this guy did was put a tracking chip in the glove for authentication purposes and gave them special colors lol. Straight up snake-oil salesman
Just get rid of them. How many hand breaks do they actually prevent? The impact is the same.
Maybe the fingers but they heal fast.
The infographic shows the problem exactly lol.
Fingers can still be extended straight out.
Pride gloves ftw.
What a joke. Billion dollar company can’t spend 50-100k in R&D.
Gonna cost them a lot more when someone’s eye ends up on the canvas
Eye Glove It
This. Fuck all
Welp, I guess that’s it. UFC is fine with eye pokes and making sure we know it.
Those gold gloves look dog shit