kitGloves

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They came in at Lumpinee, for fights against foreigners, before they came in for Thais.

Victor Soares Cardoso · CC BY-SA 3.0

What it is

Padded gloves, plus a hard groin cup, adopted in the late 1920s. Modern fights use 8oz or 10oz depending on weight; a gym will hand a beginner 14oz or 16oz.

The long version

The order of adoption in the English article is worth reading twice: gloves and hard groin protectors came in "during training and in boxing matches against foreigners" — and rope-binding "was still used in fights between Thais" until a death in the ring settled it.

So the glove arrives as a condition of the international fixture, not as a safety reform, and the safety reform follows it.

A heavier glove is a bigger surface and a slower hand, so gym sparring in 16oz is not the same sport as a fight in 8oz. That is a standard thing for a beginner to misread about their own progress.

Connected to

• The rope What it replaced.
• The cup What came in with it.
• Lumpinee Boxing Stadium Where the article puts the change.

Named here by

• Lumpinee Boxing Stadium Where the article puts the change.
• The cup What it came in with.
• The rope What replaced it.
• The ring arrives, 1921 What came next.

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