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The Benefits of Shadow Boxing in Boxing, Kickboxing, Muay Thai and MMA — Fight Quality
Shadow boxing is probably one of the easiest forms of training. You don’t need gloves or other gear, you don’t need a partner to hold pads, you don’t need a bag and you don’t even need to be at a gym. Shadow boxing is one of the few forms of training you could practise almost […]
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Professional boxers can compete at Rio Olympics — OlympicTalk
Few pros are likely to make the Rio lineup at such short notice.
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. Says Conor McGregor Is The Only Opponent Who Will Bring Him Out Of Retirement — UPROXX
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is sounding more and more serious about a Conor McGregor fight every day.
The benefits of shadow boxing for fitness — Shingy’s Boxing Blog
As a general note this is a fantastic way to keep fit and loosen up. You can shadow box anywhere where you have a bit of space. It costs absolutely nothing and you don’t need any fancy equipment and you don’t need weights. Forget spending mega money on joining a fancy gym. I reckon if […]
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Gennady Golovkin makes quick KO work of Dominic Wade, awaits Canelo Alvarez showdown — Fan Buzz
Simply nasty from GGG.
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Manny Pacquiao defeats Timothy Bradley Jr. in what he says was final fight — SycamoreSpot
If this was truly Manny Pacquiao’s final fight, as he has said, he went out with a near-vintage performance. He knocked rival Timothy Bradley Jr. down twice, in the seventh and ninth rounds, and cruised to a unanimous decision in their welterweight fight Saturday night before 14,665 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. In the […]
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What protection do boxing gloves provide?
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It goes without saying that for a number of combat sports including boxing, kickboxing and Muay Thai, you need to use boxing gloves. In this article we’re going to take a closer look into why we use them in the first place. To understand what protection boxing gloves provide, it’s important to look back at what the sport of boxing was like before the introduction of boxing gloves and other safety measures.
Before Boxing Gloves
Boxing is one of the most widely known martial arts in the western world, and is widely practised worldwide. Boxing as a sport has been practised longer than records themselves, although the first records of any form of hand protection date back to Ancient Greece, where the fighters’ hands were wrapped in rawhide, although these were also intended as a method of causing more injury to the opponent as well.
The style of boxing gloves you would recognise today were introduced in England in the 18th century, where boxing was regaining popularity and recognition as a sport. At the time, gloves were only used for training, and fights were still performed bare knuckle. It wasn’t until the late 1800s when protective boxing gloves were made a requirement, thanks to the Queensbury Rules established in 1867 which are still the basis of sport boxing rules today.
Currently, the International Boxing Association (IBA) approves new designs of gloves according to rules around weight and the amount of leather, padding and support allowed.
Boxing gloves are used in a variety of martial arts and combat sports in addition to boxing, which has led to numerous variations of gloves depending on the sport. Muay Thai for example uses a glove which is only slightly different to boxing gloves, while MMA gloves are much smaller and less padded, with open fingers to allow much better use of the hands.
Deonaty Wilder Takes on Johann Duhaupas in September
BIRMINGHAM, AL (August 20, 2015) – Heavyweight world champion Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder (34-0, 33 KOs) will make the second defense of his title when he faces France’s Johann “Reptile” Duhaupas (32-2, 20 KOs) in primetime on Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on NBC Saturday, September 26 from Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.
Televised coverage begins at 8:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. PT with exciting undefeated brawler Omar “Panterita” Figueroa (25-0-1, 18 KOs) returning to the ring to battle former world champion Antonio DeMarco (31-5-1, 23 KOs) in 12 rounds of super lightweight action.
This fight will signify the return of heavyweight world championship boxing in primetime on NBC. This is the first heavyweight title bout in primetime on NBC since May 20, 1985, when another undefeated American heavyweight world champion, Larry Holmes, defended his title against Carl Williams in Reno, Nevada with legendary broadcaster Marv Albert on…
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Breaking boxing news – Rousey waits for year to dis ‘snarky’ Mayweather
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