Glove shaving. It should be outlawed

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Damn just watching a card from Mexico. Javier Quiebra vs Gerardo González. The tape line is right at the bottom of the thumb. Never seen tape that high before.

Got a picture? Still can't get it into my head what is the big deal.

Just picture a pillow, you can grab a pillow by the very corner fabric and suspend it whilst the padding falls to the bottom part of a fabric. The padding in the boxing glove obviously doesn't shift that dramatically but the principle is the same. So what these guys are doing is shifting more of the padding towards the lower part of the glove and keeping it in place by securing it with the tape that should only be there to keep the laces intact. It should be illegal but you see it in Mexico constantly. What happened the cuffs Everlast had come out with that covered the tape or could in effect render tape useless. They were designed to go over the laces but the commissions still made guys tape up anyways. Mandating those would probably eliminate this and there would be no more stoppages for loose tape. At least the cuff over the tape would make any attempts at "skinning" completely obvious.

Jermain Taylor wearing those cuffs I mentioned.