All About MMA Gloves
When you begin your quest for a quality pair of MMA gloves, you are going to find 3 main brands: UFC, Fairtex and Combat sports. All 3 companies have great gloves, they just look a bit different and sometimes have their own unique design features.
UFC MMA Gloves
Most popular are the UFC brand. You can get a pair of the UFC Official Fight Gloves for about $54.99- and throwing them away when they’re used up will be a bit painful. This is the only glove approved to be worn by UFC fighters in the Octagon™. The only glove tested and approved by the UFC® and required in the Octagon® for all Ultimate Fighting Championship® events.
Combat Sports MMA Gloves
Recognized as the gear of champions Combat Sports is endorsed by world champion fighters, instructors, promoters and sanctioning bodies worldwide as the leader and innovator in MMA Gloves.
Combat Sports equipment is “Engineered for Top Performance”. Combat Sports has become one of the hottest brands in the Combat Sports equipment industry with over 25 distributors worldwide. Amongst Combat Sports’ collection of fighting gear, they have different types of excellent Gloves.
They have many varieties of gloves depending on your usage, whether it is training, mma fighting, etc. They have Mexican style pro training gloves, MMA Shin Guards, grappling shin guards, grappling gloves, mma rash guards, mma training gloves and more.
I do a lot of bag work, so I really like the wrist support of this glove. It has a really long strap that allows a double wrap. The glove also saves your hands from getting torn up with a good ¾ inches of padding.
Fairtex Gloves
Fairtex… I really love these gloves. I have used all brands of gloves- UFC, Combat Sports, Hayabusa, Century. None fit or perform quite like the Fairtex brand. The MMA competition gloves have good padding and a nice wrist strap design. The sparring gloves have a long wrist strap and also a bunch of padding.
Things to Consider
When It comes to choosing what brand of MMA Gloves to purchase, there are a couple of key things to consider. What will you be using them for, how much are you willing to spend and how much does brand mean to you…
I tell my customers that when buying gloves to train with- go cheap. You are just going to chew them up on a bag and get them all sweaty- right?
Sometimes fighters buy gloves so they look cool- or until they get their first solid punch in the face. Get past the looks and get a good glove!
Shop around. When you are ready to purchase, go here for the best prices on all MMA gloves…
