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.

Bollocks and you know it nah, nah, nah. As soon as they introduced even small gloves to UFC Kos went up. With boxing the amount of knockouts when gloves were introduced went through the roof. If you crack someone on the chin with no gloves you may knock them out, if you hit them elsewhere on the head or even certain parts if the face you fuck your hands up. Big gloves = Less knuckle damage and facial cuts but not less chance of a KO. Punchers Gloves are the myth, sparring stories are often myths, just think about it. Even big gloves are not pillows and a pro boxer if he hits you right will cause a concussion, he will knock you out. Big gloves or "punchers gloves".

I've just spent a few minutes browsing around trying to find the definitive answer to this, one thing that surprises me how few people have actually been hit by both styles of gloves and also how few of those few people are not biased towards one sport.

It looks like the best answer I can find is this one

Boxing gloves are a hammer, MMA gloves are a nail. Both hurt.