Conor McGregor toys with Paulie Malinaggi in sparring?

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For sure, I mean for practical reasons though.

And I specifically mean the very best practitioners of MMA, not just any old joe soap.

Floyd would knock half the UFC bods his size spark out with a jab if allowed to wear the knuckle dusters. Effing scary to think what would happen if sicko boxing bangers would do in the knuckle dusters. Frightening.

It does not really work like that. Big boxing gloves increase your ability to knock somebody out not reduce it. For all that padding you are not cushioning the blow as much as protecting the fighter's hands. You are adding a big weight to the end of the arm and physics dictates that will increase the power of the impact. You hit someone repeatedly in the head without gloves and it fucks your hands up which is why bare knuckle fighters will punch to the body a lot and lower their heads to break an opponents hands. Floyd would not get near enough when people are allowed to use their legs. Mcgregor is not going to outbox Floyd and Floyd is not going to take him down anywhere but inside a boxing ring.

That's rubbish and you know it.

Every boxer on earth says about sparring - "it was with big padded 16 ounce gloves not real ones," we have "punchers" gloves arguments take place in every other major fight, contracts written around it - "I couldn't wear Reyes, he insisted on "pillows" (Grant/Everlast).

But the only evidence anyone needs is to watch someone get punched with a boxing glove compared to those 5 ounce knuckle dusters. Either everyman that ever got chinned in an MMA fight is Amir Khan's fragile offspring or bareknuckle shots have a far bigger devastating impact? Or, of course, boxers are far weaker punchers than MMA fighters.