Question about boxing gloves

[IronFist]

I know what boxing gloves are, but what is the difference between:

Boxing Gloves
Mexican Style Boxing Gloves
Japanese Style Boxing Gloves

I've also noticed this about double end bags. There's regular, Mexican style, and Japanese style.

But I'm mainly curious about the difference in gloves. They all look the same to me.

Also, is it normal for the thumb on boxing gloves to be kind of on the side of the fist as opposed to over the fingers like where you would normally put it? Every different brand I've seen has been this way. And they've all been attached, too (a strap at the tip of the thumb connects it to the side of the finger part), which I guess is to prevent you from thumbing someone in the eye or something.

So, what's the difference between these styles of boxing gloves?

Thanks.

[PHILBERT]

Mexican gloves (http://www.warriorboxing.com/gloves/gp_01.htm)

The way the fingers are put in the glove is the big difference I believe. It seems to not have as much padding on the end.

I can't find anything on Google about Japanes boxing gloves though.

[IronFist]

Japanese style (http://store.yahoo.com/titleboxing/grant-japanese-style-laceup-training-gloves.html)

Mexican style (http://store.yahoo.com/titleboxing/mexstylprofi.html)

More Mexican style gloves (http://store.yahoo.com/titleboxing/tsgm.html) - the last bullet point says "A real 'South of the Border' attitude!" lol

^ They also say "Padding is more equally distributed throughout the glove to offer less padding over knuckles in that distinctive Mexican fighting style." Maybe that's the difference between Mexican style and non-Mexican style.

[PHILBERT]

Well, I noticed when I was google image searching that Mexican style gloves seem to have the lacing go further up the hand.

[ShaolinTiger00]

mexican gloves have more padding on the back of the hand and wrist but less on the knuckle.

japanese just the opposite.

so you can see that there are ways to take a 16 oz gloves and distribute the max padding to several places.

[Serpent]

Why?

[IronFist]

Originally posted by Serpent
Why?

Yes, I was also going to ask why.

Sounds like Mexican style gloves would do more damage (less knuckle padding).

And I assume the padding on the back doesn't really serve a purpose other than to keep the weight at 16oz. It's not like you backfist or anything. Maybe it's for blocking or something.

[PHILBERT]

It might be for blocking, like you said IronFist. That way when you cover your face up, you have the padding on the hands when they strike them. Though that sounds dumb if that is why.

[ShaolinTiger00]

because Mexican fighters are more interested in scoring a knockout than safety..

[IronFist]

^ So is it what I said? It's just that they had to put the padding somewhere to keep the weight at 16oz, and they didn't want it on the knuckles?

I think the gloves we had at my school might have been Mexican style. Either that or they were really old. They didn't have much knuckle/front of the hand padding, and what they did have was really soft. So when you punched an elbow or forearm, you really felt it!

[ShaolinTiger00]

I believe this is correct.