Boxing Equipment 101

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What Do You Know About Boxing Equipment?

Think boxing is just two grown men beating each other up? There's much more to it than that. Not only do fighters rely on boxing equipment to protect themselves, there are intricate strategies that play out in the ring, not simply brute force.

There was a time when boxing was a bare-knuckle sport with no gear required. But the Marquess of Queensbury rules � John Chambers's 1867 text that codified the proper rules and conduct of boxing � changed everything, and the rules soon became the most popular form of boxing in the Western world. With the new rules system, boxing quickly rose in popularity and reputability during the early 20th Century. One of the key reasons for this cultural shift is the adoption and regulation of boxing equipment, designed to protect the combatants.

In professional bouts, the most recognizable type of boxing equipment is the boxing glove; in fact, it's iconic of the sport. The gloves are designed to minimize the damage done by punches. Primarily, this is accomplished with padding, but boxing gloves also slow down the punch with their added weight and make the puncher's strike easier to see, dodge or block (using the fighter's own gloves, which absorb most of the shock with their padding) - the glove is a piece of boxing equipment that has both offensive and defensive uses.

Of course, there's plenty of boxing equipment that spectators don't see or think about. A boxer's mouthguard protects his tongue and teeth from a punch that has the same force behind it as a small car. Another type of unseen boxing equipment is the hand wrap, worn under boxing gloves to provide extra protection for their fists and muscles.

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