The OG UFC gloves are right here to remain.
Final 12 months, the promotion unveiled a brand-new glove design dubbed the 3Eight and the 5Eight. Coming in quite a lot of colours like gold, blue, and the standard black, the fightwear was designed to ship most consolation and a safe combat whereas decreasing the general weight.
The gloves had been additionally touted to scale back the variety of eye pokes contained in the Octagon, although precisely how that was going to be achieved was by no means clearly defined.
The gloves made their official debut at UFC 302 on June 1 with Islam Makhachev and Dustin Poirier dawning the gold-colored mits for his or her light-weight championship showdown in New Jersey.
5 months later, the brand new gloves had been out and the outdated ones had been again in.
UFC exec says there ‘could be’ a brand new glove launched down the road
Jon Jones was one of many greatest proponents of complaining in regards to the new gloves which prompted the promotion to return to the outdated design for his title protection towards Stipe Miocic in November. Then in February, it was introduced at UFC Vegas 102 that each one fighters would return to utilizing the outdated gloves.
Talking with LowKick MMA and different reporters on the UFC London post-fight press convention, UFC exec David Shaw supplied some perception into the everlasting change again to the brand new gloves, noting that there could possibly be a brand new model of the UFC glove launched down the road.
However for now, what as soon as was outdated is new once more.
“I mean I think Dana, Sean, Mick, Hunter, they spoke to a lot of different athletes and everyone seems to want to go back to the old gloves so for for now that’s the plan until it’s not and there’ll be other gloves but I think for now we’re we’re going to continue to roll with those,” Shaw stated.
