History was made over the weekend when the first sanctioned, professional bare-knuckle boxing matches in the United States in 130 years were held in Wyoming. The event drew 2,000 fans and was possible since the state officially legalized the sport back in March. It is possible that this leads...
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The gloves are worn to protect the fighter's hands, meaning they can throw the same intense punch no matter the round, even punches to the head.
Make a fist and place it under your chin. Now, put on a MMA glove or a boxing glove and do the same. You will notice your fist now has more surface area, meaning that knockout blow can come easier AND, again, if you have the stamina, you can land serious murderous rights and left hooks from hell no matter when in the fight.
Not arguing, but this is very interesting from a physics perspective. Feel free to glaze over the below lol
Two laws of physics related to this: 1) pressure is inversely related to
area of impact and 2) force is inversely related to the
time of impact.
Meaning that as long as the provided strength behind the punch is the same, the greater surface area of of the glove/taped hands means the pressure of the blow is more 'dilute' due to being spread over a larger surface area. An example of this first rule is a sharpened pin with a miniscule surface area can break your skin easily, versus a metal pen which will require significantly more pressure. Second law of force/time, that the force of impact is inversely related to the time of impact, means that if the glove has more 'give' than a fist (I'm guessing it does, slightly) this increases the time of impact as compared to a bare knuckle. An example of this is that a real bullet will of course cause more damage than a rubber bullet because rubber smooshes (very scientific term) on impact ever so slightly increasing the time of impact. It's why we have airbags in cars, to increase the time of impact during a full stop collision using the airbags, as opposed to straight on face hitting the steering wheel. Soft things don't hurt not because they're just 'soft', but because the softness leads to an increased time of impact if that makes any sense lol.
Obviously with regard to a punch and brain damage (concussed/knocked out), the greater surface area of impact provided by gloves means more blows landed versus glancing/missed, which I would imagine more than compensates for the slighter lower overall pressure and force of each punch.
And regarding faces beaten to a pulp without gloves, it would be interesting to see the overall brain damage comparison. It could be faces being so badly beaten cause the fighter to bow out before the brain receives as much damage as one would see in a gloved fight.
