RIVAL Boxing Gloves - RS100 Professional Sparring Gloves - Choice of Colours

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Quality glove at a great price (especially when on sale).This model (unlike their others) most closely matches the shape of a boxing glove. Good leather and good cushion suitable for sparring and bagwork. If you want a velcro model, you can get the BGVL3 which has better padding but some complain that it’s too bulky (like traditional Thai glove shape).

TKO is another generic fight gear company like Century except only they’re a smaller company and their gloves are even lower-priced and lesser quality. They’re using a more outdated design for their gloves (compared to Century) and their gloves feel evencheaper in your hands. I tried their gloves 10 years ago and it hurt like hell to punch with them even when they were new. I remember them looking like plastic. Overall, these Rival Boxing RS1 2.0 Ultra Pro Lace-Up Sparring Gloves are Rival’s best because they are well padded, look great, are supportive, and have superb comfort. The only caveat is that it isn’t made from real leather. Nice glove but over-priced, and issues with quality controllately. Many complaints from people saying they aren’t worth the price.

THE WINNERS – Johnny’s Favorite Boxing Gloves (for training and fighting)

Great for sparring and bagwork. The laces version has more support, also more popular (like 20- to-1). Their velcro glove, while not as supportive as the laces, is also the best velcro glove on the market! Quality leather, buttery smooth inner lining, perfect thumb position, protective pillow-ey padding, and total comfort all around! Standard A-level gear used by everyone. ( See full brand review.) The smallest gloves you’ll ever see, much smallerthan training gloves (and even amateur competition gloves). Made with less padding and only used in professional fights. Having less padding increases power transfer at the cost of hand protection. The #1 “puncher’s glove” in the market. Horsehair model is used in pro fights for maximum power transfer. In summary, these Rival RB11 Evolution Bag Gloves are Rival’s best bag glove because they are easy to use, support your wrists excellently, are comfortable, and look fantastic.

Century gear is typically found in toy stores and sporting good stores. At toy stores, it’ll be the only option and priced cheaply. At sporting good stores, it’s the cheaper alternative to namebrands (most likely Everlast if you’re in America and Adidas if you’re in Europe). Ok, NOW we’re talking! These guys are probably the best andmost updated of the Pakistan clone manufacturers. They produce the latest glove models on the markettoday. Are these newer, better-looking models actually superior to the old models or are they essentially the same but with only an updated design? We’ll find out later in this review.This ultimate bargain glove is a favorite for female boxers as well. This model can actually be just fine for many females, especially since they don’t hit as hard as males. You can spar and hit the bag in this. (Some colors are cheaper!) Want to know if a new company out there is any good? Simply compare their designs to the popular design molds out there. If it looks similar and sells within a similar price point, it’s probably the same thing. Some are trying to go “high-end” by offering only 2 models. Some gothe bigstore route offering a redesign of every Pakistan mold out there: Top criteria for training gloves are quality-of-construction and protection, then comfort. Gloves made forbagwork have denser cushion to last longer and also prevent you from punching through the padding. Gloves made for sparring have softer cushion to minimize power transfer and protect sparring partners. There are also gloves that are made for both; ideally, they use multiple layers of foam of different densities.Because every hand is different, some gloves will fit and protect you better than others. ELASTIC VELCRO– this is a cheaper version of velcro using a stretchy fabric for the strap instead of leather. Doesn’t last long (tears easily) and not as supportive. Can sometimes be more annoying than usual velcro strap. Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user.

Cleto Reyes is the best-known, highest craftsmanship, and best leather of all the Mexican brands. They make excellent quality gloves but aren’t recommended for training because they’re known as “puncher’s gloves”—designed for maximum power transfer rather than cushioning and hand protection. With that said, they are still favored by many fighters, especially competing fighters, and now offer models with extra padding. ( See full brand review.) Old school bag glove. Newer bag glove – modernized version so you can look “cool” using crappy gear. Looks like an MMA glove. Updated “padded” bag glove – STILL BAD, don’t use. Fighters that like Winning/Grant gloves but can’t afford them will default to Rival or one of the Mexican glove brands (Reyes, Casanova), which are still very high quality but more affordable. Those wanting customization or flashy styling will go with customized Mexican gloves; ones with bigger budget will do Grant or Adidas MyGloves. Boxers on average budget will default to Ring2Cage C17’s. Those on a tighter budget will get either Fighting Sports or Ringside IMF sparring gloves (which go on sale often). MMA guys or boxers venturing outside the traditional boxing brands will go for Hayabusa (which I don’t like), Ring 2 Cage’s C17 model (a respectable Winning clone) or one of the Thai brands (Fairtex, Twins, etc). The most budget conscious will go for Title, really cheap but functional.They don’t look Mexican-made at all whatsoever; looks like any other cheap Pakistan glove (but actually worse). They didn’t even make an effort to copy the original Casanovas. Entirely different shape, padding, and feel. The only effort they made was to copy the Casanova logo. Oh but look carefully and you’ll notice one glaring flaw…there’s no “HECHO EN MEXICO” on the label because these are so obviously not made in Mexico; they even turned the glove so you can’t see the label straight on. Don’t be fooled by their online pictures either; some of them try to copy the real Casanova’s photo angles and also the wrinkled leather of Mexican gloves but it looks like such cheap plastic piece of crap in person. An insult to even cheap Pakistan gloves. PBS for me is the very epitome of a “Pakistan clone” because they’re generic versions of brand-name Pakistan clones. You can’t get much more generic than that! They tried to send me free gear in exchange for a review but insisted on me trying their crappier models which I’m guessing are crap quality but offer high profit margins. When I told them I would be honest if their gloves didn’t hold up to my other quality gloves, they decided not to send me anything.