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smikey
May 22, 2004
It's not a hootenanny, it's an extravsganza!

LupusAter posted:

You have it backwards: gloves let people hit harder without risking breaking their fingerbones and for the same reason incentivize head shots, 'cause you no longer have to worry about your hands.

This and the primary purposes of gloves was to reduce instances of cuts so that bouts wouldn't be stopped for excessive bleeding or blood obscuring vision and to make the sport more "presentable" to a general audience.

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