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

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This high-class sparring glove offers not only a perfect fit but incredible comfort as well. Handcrafted using our indestructible Super Rich Microfibre with a foamy cloth lining, and a part mesh palm for added ventilation, this outstanding professional glove will give you countless rounds of high performance sparring. Features I’m guessing Title gear started catching on as this “cheap but still good” brand of gear and their name actually grew into being seen as a legitimate brand. It’s funny because Title actually uses all the same Pakistan clone molds and yet they are seen as this completely new and innovative boxing gear company. On top of that, Title started producing their luxury brand called “Fighting” which featured flashier-looking gloves at higher prices. Their idea was to copy the success of the ultra-premium Japanese brand “Winning” but at more affordable price-points. The thing is “Fighting” also too, uses the same Pakistan clone molds so I wonder if it’s really any better than even their regular stuff. But nowadays, we have many “business manufacturers” making gloves to maximize profit. They don’t have time or even the knowledge to create their own glove design, so they simply use an existing “template”. And usually these templates are designed around maximizing profit, using inferior materials and decreasing labor times. So when I say “clone gloves”, I mean that the gloves are simply a widely available template used by several other companies. Some designs are just there to look cool and increase sales but don’t actually improve the glove in any functional way.

Unfortunately, Ringside soon decided to stop manufacturing their gloves in the USA and started outsourcing toone of those Pakistan clone companies. The new gloves were a total letdown and they lost their fanbase almost overnight. There used to be so many people who swore by Ringside but now they all say, “ I’ll never buy Ringside again. They’re not quality gloves like they used to make. Their new gloves are overpriced pieces of junk!” Hayabusa, however, failed to capture any real respect in the boxing market and I suspect it’s for the all the reasons that I don’t like that brand. As a boxing purist, like other boxing purists, we already had a history and a tradition. I don’t know how to say it, but we respect the “old”. We respect the “old school guys”, the “old school knowledge”, the “old school training”. Boxing has a culture of being “time-tested” and so you were very skeptic of anything new. Our gear was plain and designed to remind us of the old days when times were tough and fighters were tougher. A fancy pretty glove like Hayabusa looked like a toy to us. It looked like something made for children, not for real men, not for real fighters.

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These guys operate under many names. It’s like a family franchise or something and each member has a different take on the “PRO” name. Search their stores on Yelp in Southern California and you’ll find “PRO Boxing Equipment”, “PRO Boxing Suplies”, “Pro Combat”, “PROLAST”. Do not be fooled. Their gear is crap. The leather rips and the padding goes flat. BUT OF COURSE, I RECOMMEND ONLY THE BRANDS THAT I LIKE AND REVIEW FAVORABLY! F – “the Pakistan clones” I reviewover 60brands, and hundreds ofdifferent gloves…explaining everything frommaterials, padding, and stitchingto shape, comfort, and protection. I also cover the history of different brands and how they evolved or even copied one another over the years. This high class sparring glove offers not only a perfect fit but incredible comfort as well. Handcrafted using our indestructible Super Rich Microfiber with a foamy cloth lining, and a part mesh palm for added ventilation, this outstanding professional glove will give you countless rounds of high performance.

Another popular “puncher’s glove”. Good power transfer AND protection (more than Reyes). Offershorse hair model, as well as an “orthopedic model” for those with hand problems. Here in America, Adidas boxing gloves are almost non-existent or seldom seen. I’ve heard of some fighters wearing thembut never seen it with my own eyes. I do wonder if the pros actually use them by choice or because they were sponsored. For the most part, their gear is yet another one of those beautifully-designed Pakistan clone brands. And I really wanted to like their gear because they sent me several models for free. But I couldn’t use it—their gloves were sostiff and painful to punch with. There was one pro model that I did fallin love with. It was a 10oz pro fighting glove that felt amazing but you can’t train in it. For regulartraining purposes, Adidas has nothing for you. I call these brands the NAME-BRAND clones because they too, are outsourcing all their gloves to be made in Pakistan. There may be some brands on here that claim to maketheir own gloves in the US or Europe or some other local place but it’s hard to believe that when their gloves still share the same mold as the Pakistan clones. Now MAYBE it’s the Pakistan glove manufacturers that are copying their latest designs. Except that argument goes out the window when you see many other boxing gear companies all copying the same glove molds. So who’s copying who? I don’t know anymore. Here we see a higher level of boxing glove manufacturer. They’ve got the same old models as the previous companies but also more updated designs. Are you starting to see the patterns, yet? It’s like they’re all using the exact same glove design template, right? And the eye-opening thing is that many household brands use them as well. Remember all the complaints that Everlast or Ringside are no longer as good as they used to be? Well, now you can see why…they’ve all outsourced to Pakistan. DOUBLE VELCRO– using two velcro straps instead of one. In some instances, it adds support and comfort. Other times, it doubles the annoyance of velcro (catching onto your handwraps) and you might stillneed a person to help you with it.

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A top favorite for PROFESSIONALwomen boxers. Way over-pricedbut high quality, with tighterfit and beautiful custom colors. I would honestly recommend another brand (like Ring2Cage C17) but Grant is up here because many pro femalesare using them. Here’s an insightful forum comment on the decline of Everlast quality over the years: Everlast and Title , same company or no? I was hoping to support new brands like Machina and Society Nine for making boxing gloves specifically designed for women. Although I love their designs, I can’t help notice they’re all the usual cheap Pakistan clone gloves (better suited for fitness than actual serious training). Good for sparring and bagwork. Great wrist protection. Boxy Mexican glove shape makes punches land very flat (it’s a good thing). Beautiful nolstagic old school vibe. Mexican leather is much better than usual cheap Pakistan leather. Rival produces boxing gloves in Pakistan and China and have offices across the world in Montreal, Canada (Head Office); Las Vegas, USA; Northamptonshire, UK; and New South Wales, Australia. Where to Buy Rival Boxing Gloves?

Only intended as a bag glove, NOTfor sparring, but very high quality. (I recommend size LARGE or XL.) This is the standard “bag glove” nowadays. They look like regular boxing gloves but with higher density foam to protect your hands againstdense objects like the heavy bag and mitts. The denser padding however makes them too stiff for sparring. 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. I don’t know how much longer this brand will be sleeping under people’s noses. Di Nardo is the real deal. Absolute works of art in the form of boxing gloves. These are such beautiful gloves, you have to see them in person to really appreciate. Most other high-end gloves are simply standard boxing gloves but with better materials and craftsmanship. Di Nardo gloves however are a completely revamped take on boxing gloves, re-imagined and improved in everyway. They are structurally superior to anything on the market and far more beautiful aesthetically. What else do you expect from an Italian craftsman?Takes time to break in: These Rival RB11 gloves feel quite stiff in the beginning and take about a dozen training sessions to break in. In comparison the Rival RFX-Guerrero pro fight gloves and the RB10’s break-in much faster. Summary Many fighters (usually pros) will even put tape around their wrist directly on the skin itself as well as around the glove (after they tie up) for extra wrist support. You can do this if you want even more support (power) than what the glove and hand-wraps provide.

Necalli (like other Mexican brands) – great leather, padding, wrist support, comfort and craftsmanship. Also fair pricing and old-school styling. 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. 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.Those on a budget might buy only a soft pair for sparring, and then use community gloves for bagwork. 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. Well-broken in: Many gloves such as the RB11’s (reviewed above) feel quite stiff to begin with and usually take multiple training sessions to break in. However, these HDE-F gloves feel excellent right from the get-go which is a great advantage.