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How to Maintain and Care for Your Martial Arts Equipment

Posted on March 24, 2025February 5, 2025 by Fight Quality

Training in martial arts comes with its fair share of wear and tear—not just on your body, but on your equipment too. Whether you’re practising Muay Thai, boxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, or any other martial art, proper maintenance of your gear is essential. Without the right care, your equipment can wear out faster, become unhygienic, and even compromise your performance or safety.

How to Choose the Right Boxing Gloves for Training and Competition

Posted on February 28, 2025February 5, 2025 by Fight Quality

Choosing the right pair of boxing gloves is essential for both safety and performance, whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned fighter. Gloves are more than just gear—they protect your hands, wrists, and sparring partners, and they can influence how you perform during training or competition. A poorly chosen glove can lead to discomfort, injury, or a decrease in the quality of your training.

How are boxing gloves made?

Posted on March 5, 2021July 28, 2022 by Fight Quality

Have you ever wondered how your boxing gloves are made? When it comes to boxing gloves, there are loads of brands, all designing their gloves to be slightly different. It’s easy to find a boxing glove with almost any colour, design or style you could ask for. But how are these boxing gloves made? Different factories all do things slightly differently which is why most brands will have their own unique build style or shape. We’ve done a little bit of research so that we can give you a quick breakdown.

The Ultimate Guide To Boxing Gloves

Posted on February 11, 2021August 27, 2024 by Fight Quality

Welcome to the Fight Quality Ultimate Guide to Boxing Gloves.

When we originally wrote the first version of our Ultimate Guide back in 2016 we wanted to bring you the absolute best resource for everything you could possibly want to know about boxing gloves. Since then the guide has undergone several updates, reflecting the changes in the industry, technology and brands.

How to Keep Your Boxing Gloves Clean

Posted on January 15, 2021March 2, 2021 by Fight Quality

Let’s be real for a second – nobody wants to be the person at whose gloves stink out the whole gym. We’ll be going over a couple of the steps which you can take to make sure your gloves are always clean and fresh, and avoid any possible hygiene issues (or worse – bad smells).

Choosing the Right Brand of Boxing Glove

Posted on December 18, 2020August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

When buying boxing gloves, the brand you buy definitely matters. Almost all established fight gear brands who sell boxing gloves will have developed their own distinct style and create their gloves in completely different ways. Before looking into it though, you need to determine what sort of budget you have and what you’re going to be using that pair of gloves for.

What Types Of Boxing Gloves Are There?

Posted on December 11, 2020August 27, 2024 by Fight Quality

Whether you’ve been training for a while, or are just considering taking it up, you’ll no doubt have noticed that not all boxing gloves are the same. There’s actually more variation than you would expect, and each style of glove has its own uses. Here’s a quick run-down on most of the types of boxing gloves you may come across.

Why do you need to wear hand wraps for Boxing, MMA, Muay Thai and other combat sports?

Posted on November 6, 2020August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

Chances are that at some point towards the beginning of your training you were told you need hand wraps to wear underneath your gloves. Hand wraps of course make your hand safer, but not many people actually know how they do that.

What’s Inside A Boxing Glove?

Posted on November 2, 2020August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

We use them every time we go training and rely on the protection they offer to not damage our hands when we’re hitting pads (or the odd face or two), but how many times have you stopped to think about what’s giving you that protection?

How To Tell What Size / Weight Boxing Gloves You Need

Posted on October 12, 2020August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

How do you know you’re using the right size or weight boxing glove? If you ask most brands they’ll usually tell you it all depends on either your weight or the size of your hands, but is that always the case? Should you use the same weight gloves for both fitness work like pads or a heavy bag, as you would use during sparring?

What protection do boxing gloves provide?

Posted on September 25, 2020August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

When it comes to combat sports, there’s almost always some form of glove involved. There are a load of different types of glove, but they all share a common purpose – making things safer. That said, there are negative sides to using boxing gloves, leading some groups to agree that bare knuckle boxing is actually safer overall.

In this article we’re going to take a closer look into why we use boxing gloves in the first place. To understand what protection boxing gloves provide, it’s important to look back at what the sport of boxing was like before the introduction of boxing gloves and other safety measures.

How Are Boxing Gloves Customised?

Posted on February 27, 2020August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

With the popularity of boxing, rise of mix martial arts and ever increasing number of people taking up striking martial arts theres been an increasing demand for the boxing gloves that stand out from the crowd.

What Equipment Do You Need For Boxing? (Video)

Posted on February 19, 2020August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

Looking to get into boxing? In this videos we break down all the essentials you’ll need to pick up.

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Fight Gear Focus – Engage E-Series Boxing Gloves (Video)

Posted on February 5, 2020August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

Our latest video takes a close look at the Engage E-Series Boxing Gloves.

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Testing the Infinitude Online Boxing Glove Customiser

Posted on January 22, 2020August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

Our latest video takes a close look at the Infinitude Online Boxing Glove Customiser.

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Infinitude Custom Boxing Gloves Review – The best custom boxing gloves on the market? (Video)

Posted on November 13, 2019August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

In this video a member of the Fight Quality team takes a look at the Infinitude Fight Raptor Xtreme Pro Custom Boxing Gloves.

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Sting Orion Boxing Gloves Review – A great all-round glove? (Video)

Posted on October 9, 2019August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

In this video a member of the Fight Quality team takes a look at the Sting Orion Competition Premium Boxing Gloves.

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A Quick Guide To Spotting Fake Boxing Gloves

Posted on September 23, 2019August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

Following on from our last article all about the copycat problem in the boxing industry, where we talked about the prevalence of fake products on sites like ebay, we thought we’d provide you guys with a quick guide on how to spot a pair of fake gloves. You can get very in depth on individual brands, and there are plenty of YouTube videos doing exactly that, but this guide is designed as a quick checklist to consider before you buy yourself a new pair of gloves.

Is there a Copycat Problem in the Boxing Equipment Industry?

Posted on September 20, 2019August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

In recent weeks, Rival Boxing CEO Russ Anber vented his frustration towards a certain Adidas boxing glove release, which shared a few too similarities with Rival’s own boxing gloves. It’s not our place to comment on the legitimacy of this claim, but it did get us wondering whether this is just a symptom of a bigger issue across the boxing industry.