Help Me Find Some Good 16oz Sparring Gloves.?
I have a cheap pair of century 16oz slip-on boxing gloves and I want to upgrade to some good gloves. There aren’t any boxing or martial arts stores near where I live and all the gloves I see at sports chalet, sports autority, and big 5 only have the so-called advanced training gloves that have absolutely no padding, so i’m planning on ordering some gloves online and was just hoping that some of you guys could give me some advice on which gloves would be good to get. Thanks!
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December 26th, 2009 at 8:24 am
Out of all the brands available for a low or average price, I only trust Ringside. It’s the highest-end glove on the average affordability scale. It’s just amazing that such a good company contracts their only option of shipping through the shittiest and most corrupt shipping company in the world- UPS. If you live in Alaska (like I do) or Hawaii, you will pay a minimum of $43 for shipping, even if your order a key chain or shirt. On top of that, your order will always take two weeks to reach you rather than the guaranteed two days, but that’s fine because after Ringside and UPS deny you a refund for it (by not replying to your emails), you just call your credit card company and have the insane shipping charge reversed. But all that is if you live in Alaska or Hawaii.
Other than Ringside, if you’re willing to shell out big money for top notch gloves that will last quite a while and that will remain intact and will serve you like gloves should, get Cleto Reyes or Grant. It’s what all the professionals use. The only thing you should buy from Grant is their “Professional” line of gloves, not the other glove models. Other than the Professional gloves, you should order nothing from Grant other than maybe their boxing trunks. A lot of Grant products are overpriced trash (their $30 neck strengthener can be found elsewhere for $9 easily). The problem is that Grant is another American company (they only really care about making money), so they don’t store or ship their products with any care of preservation of product quality, so roughly half of your items will be as if they got sat on by an elephant upon opening the box.
That just leaves Cleto Reyes as the other high-end brand to get. I’ve never personally tried them myself, but I know they’re held in extremely high regard among the boxing group in general. Most of the pros use Cleto Reyes as their brand, their especially used by people who punch hard because the padding in the Cleto Reyes gloves are distributed throughout the glove and not just on the knuckle area, meaning it makes your opponent feel one hell of a punch from you.
So essentially:
3.) Rindside
2.) Grant
1.) Cleto Reyes
But remember, if you want jacked up product and shipping costs, as well as customer service incompetence and complete corruption and rip-off tactics, by all means order from Everlast or Title. Their business is selling cheap (and often previously used), half-broken, Chinese-made products at 5x their value, while shipping it at additional unreasonable rates, while being governed or oversaught by no one with any moral or ethical values towards keeping the company name at what it once was. Some will say that only their lower-end stuff is garbage, but it’s the same with a majority their higher-end stuff as well, trust me. Funniest of all, you’ll order an item when it’s on sale and they’ll confirm that the item in question is indeed on sale, but they’ll secretly bill you for the standard item price and other sneaky little corporate bullshit like that. It’s sad, really. So remember Everlast and Title as a total no-no.
December 26th, 2009 at 8:50 am
You can order from a variety of sizes and styles online from Everlast. I had 2 pairs but I sadly left them in NJ.
December 26th, 2009 at 9:22 am
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