Thread: Design of MMA Gloves?

well in amateur boxing, there's a standard thickness of padding that a glove has to have. That's something that could be done for MMA fighters, is to have a standard thickness over the knuckles and back of the hand. Also making sure that they use lether gloves and hopefully to have gloves with seems that wouldn't be able to use to produce cutts.

Originally Posted by Scott Bolinger

well in amateur boxing, there's a standard thickness of padding that a glove has to have. That's something that could be done for MMA fighters, is to have a standard thickness over the knuckles and back of the hand. Also making sure that they use lether gloves and hopefully to have gloves with seems that wouldn't be able to use to produce cutts.

Thanks Scott!
I had a similar discussion with some other members in another forum, and they also mentioned that elbows and knees tend to do 70 - 80 % of cuts in matches. Do you think there should be elbow and knee wraps? I know most fighters hate to lose due to a cut.

probably. If I did MMA or trained people to participate in MMA, i'd have them very knoledgable of the elbow strike for knock out power and opening up cutts. It sucks to loose a fight over a cut. But if your going against a apponent that can't be knocked out, that would be one way to get a win. But , i'd say it would be a good idea to have the elbow's and knees padded. Everything you strike with should have a specific amount of padding over the area.