Glove shaving. It should be outlawed

[greynotsoold]

Also, this works real well with Reyes gloves. If you notice, they have a longer cuff. Well, all that goes into the weight of the glove. An 18 oz glove doesn't mean 18 oz of padding over the knuckles. With Reyes, a lot of the weight is in the cuff and on the back of the hand, relatively light over the part where punches land; this is why they are known as punchers gloves.
What you are doing with all that tape, you are skinning it back, pushing the padding back and taping it down, because it moves, and you want your punches to land with as much of that heavily taped and tightly wrapped fist getting through as possible.
In the old days they wrapped hands with packing tape and fought with 4 oz gloves and it is a miracle (and a testament to defensive skill) that anybody survived.

[ray corso]

The amount of tape on those gloves is ridiculous!!! Normally I tried to peal back some of the material by crossing my laces on the backside of the glove up high and feeding the padding back toward the wrists and then secure it by tightening down the laces! Then you use tape to cover the laces!

Whats more incredible to me is how often fighters are hitting pads with "fight gloves on"!!!
Warming up in the locker area using mitts is inzane! No way does that happen to anyone I'm in charge of! Ray.

[Violent Demise]

I don't have a problem with skinning the gloves. Nothing is being taken out of the glove. And nothing is being added to the glove. The tape is just being placed a certain way. Does it help the fighter? Yes it does. But it's not illegal. So there is no reason why both fighters shouldn't be doing it