Danny Green On Who The Glove Size Change Will Disadvantage

The most anticipated fight in boxing history takes place this Sunday with Floyd Mayweather taking on dual-UFC champion Conor McGregor in Las Vegas.

Outside the verbal brawls the two men have exchanged in the lead-up, one of the biggest talking points has been the change of glove size from 10 ounce to eight ounce and champion Australian boxer Danny Green joined Triple M Adelaide to explain the impact of the glove change. 

“The funny thing is…if you’re welterweight or below, you use 8 ounce gloves,” Green told Jars & Louie, “if your light middleweight or above you use 10 ounce.”

“The MMA guys use 14 ounce gloves, but the padding over the knuckle on a boxing glove is the same as an MMA glove.

“But in boxing we get to strap our hands and wrap our hands up like house bricks.

“Connor McGregor himself said ‘my hands feel like house bricks’.

“And the knuckle part, where you actually punch if you’re a good striker, has exactly the same amount of padding as an MMA glove, yet your hands are strapped up much harder and tighter so it’s even more dangerous.”

With many speculating that the change in gloves would be an advantage to the precision punching MeGregor, Green was quick to point out that it actually the opposite.

“All this baloney about MMA gloves being smaller…Mayweather has worn smaller gloves his whole career,” Green said. 

“So it’s actually an advantage to Mayweather to wear smaller gloves.

“It’s a disadvantage for McGregor”.