14 or 16oz gloves for heavybag/sparring?

[greynotsoold]

I have my hev bag at work and go through the motions each morning.

I dont like 14oz for bag work and 1 pounders are way to much. I have a pair of these,
They are 12 oz. I start with those as I tend to hit harder in the first several minutes of the work out. I then switch to straight bag gloves I also have an old pair of 14 and 16 everlast's with detached thumbs and if a buddy ever wants to hack around I'll use a pair of those and let him use the 12's.

I love those old bag gloves. I can close my fist and my hands don't hurt. The last pair of 'good' gloves I bought were 14 oz Ringside gloves and they just killed my hands. Couldn't make a fist.