History Of Boxing Gloves. They were made with strips of leather that were occasionally fitted with blades or spikes. Boxing gloves have been around in one form or another almost since the beginning of boxing 3000 years ago.
The ancient greeks used to wrap their hands in leather strips in an attempt to protect their hands. When jack slack had beaten brownton the fights for the title of champion became more regular. In the late 1700 s jack broughton invented the leather boxing glove as we know it.
Boxing gloves have been around in one form or another almost since the beginning of boxing 3000 years ago.
Ironically these protective devices would prove in some ways to be more dangerous than bare fists. The idea came to him because one gloves allowed sparring matches to be safer and two boxing gloves kept the bones in the fighter s hands protected. However gloves adorned by contemporary pugilists bare scant regard to those worn by the ancient greeks as we know now. The modern boxing glove did not emerge in a vacuum and has a rich and varied history.
