History Main / WeightedGloves

* Rohn Torogon, enforcer for the Kekonese-Espenians in Southtrap in the "[[Literature/JadeCity Green Bone Saga]]", is usually seen wearing a pair of padded weighted gloves. They double as where he keeps [[MysticalJade the jade that gives him increased speed and strength]].

* In ''Literature/TheRedVixenAdventures'' Alinadar wears fingerless gloves with lead weights, among [[WalkingArmory several other]] easily concealed weapons.

* In ''By The Great Horn Spoon'', which is set during the 1840s California Gold Rush, the butler Praiseworthy hides gold dust in his gloves to keep it from being found. Later their coach is robbed, and Praiseworthy socks one of the robbers several feet into the air with his gold-weighted gloves. As such he gets rumored around town to be an incredible fistfighter, and so starts studying boxing to keep up his reputation for the real fights.

Interestingly, the point of a boxing glove is not to dampen the blow, it's to protect the hand. Hiding a horseshoe or similarly hard things in your boxing glove would be just as likely to damage your fingers as your opponent's face (real weight sap gloves use powdered steel or lead, adding mass and density while conforming to the hand). This simply makes it an AcceptableBreakFromReality.

Interestingly, the point of a boxing glove is not to dampen the blow, it's to protect the hand. Hiding a horseshoe or similarly hard things in your boxing glove would be just as likely to damage your fingers as your opponent's face (real weight sap gloves use powered steel or lead, adding mass and density while conforming to the hand). This simply makes it an AcceptableBreakFromReality.

Interestingly, the point of a boxing glove is not to dampen the blow, it's to protect the hand. Hiding a horseshoe or similarly hard things in your boxing glove would be just as likely to damage your fingers as your opponent's face (real weight sap gloves used powered steel or lead, adding mass and density while conforming to the hand). This simply makes it an AcceptableBreakFromReality.

* In the "Collateral Damage" episode of ''Series/BlueBloods'' a bunch of executives engage in boxing [[FightClubbing Fight Club]]. When one of them dies after a match, the detectives find that the winner's gloves have been doctored to make them heavier.

Interestingly, the point of a boxing glove is not to dampen the blow, it's to protect the hand. Hiding a horseshoe (or similarly hard things) in your boxing glove would be just as likely to damage your fingers as your opponent's face. This simply makes it an AcceptableBreakFromReality.

* [[FightingIrish Aran Ryan]] in the Wii version of ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' is shown stuffing horseshoes in his gloves in his Contender intro, as pictured above. As thoroughly unsubtle as it is, that's not even his most glaring cheating maneuver: that honor has to go to how he expands on the idea in Title Defense. One of his old gloves wears out, so he takes it, attaches it to a long rope, stuffs even ''more'' horseshoes into it, and wields it as a heavy whip weapon or alternatively as an improvised [[EpicFlail flail]].

* The tragic case of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Resto_(boxer)#Bout_with_Billy_Collins_Jr Billy Collins Jr. v. Luis Resto]]. Before the match, Resto's trainer soaked Resto's hand wraps in plaster of Paris and removed the padding from his gloves, resulting in his punches hitting far harder than they would have otherwise. After an investigation, Resto was banned from boxing and spent several years in prison. Unfortunately, Resto's punches had been hard enough to cause brain damage in Collins which left him with permanently blurred vision, ending his boxing career and leading him to commit suicide.

* The tragic case of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Resto_(boxer)#Bout_with_Billy_Collins_Jr Billy Collins v. Luis Resto]]. Before the match, Resto's trainer soaked Resto's hand wraps in plaster of Paris and removed the padding from his gloves, resulting in his punches hitting far harder than they would have otherwise. After an investigation, Resto was banned from boxing and spent several years in prison. Unfortunately, Resto's punches had been hard enough to cause brain damage in Collins which left him with permanently blurred vision, ending his boxing career and leading him to commit suicide.