Boxing bare hands appeared in England in the 17th century and was very popular by the public. By the 19th century, the British government began to be aware of its brutality and danger, they issued the law to wear gloves to compete in the hope of reducing gore on the stage.
However, at that time the danger of Boxing was only recognized by qualitative. It was not until later, when science developed, people truly measured and studied the danger of these two boxing genres on the martial artist's body.
With bare -handed boxing, software injuries such as skin torn, swelling of the eyes, forehead swelling, hematoma almost always occur in matches, so the bare -hand boxing is assigned to the brutal and non -sporty label.
These injuries are caused by the penetrating force of the punch. When the boxer punches, the angular arm joints will affect the opponent's face causing tears and swelling.
As for the professional boxing boxing, the exposure to the martial artist is not the hand joints but the gloves, with a larger section. It is also the same force, but when exposed, the punching force when gloves will spread evenly on the martial artist's face, so they can limit the force.
Imagine there is a needle and a roll, both stabbed into the skin but will only need the needle into the meat, and the scrolls are not possible. Because the needle has a smaller cross section, it will penetrate stronger, and the roll has a wide section of the only cross -section, so it is safer.
However, do not be so hastily evaluated the boxing boxing less dangerous than the bare -hand boxing – the above injuries are just software injuries. There is another type of injury, that is broken nose, cheekbones, broken arm joints, broken forehead bones, chin rupture, … also known as hardware injuries.
These injuries are common in both boxing genres. But there is a particularly very common injury encountered in the professional boxing, which is the wrist injury.
When punching the opponent, the professional boxer suffered a reaction force to work on the entire wrist and joints. But due to protective gloves, the boxer will not feel pain, plus difficult to not be longer.
When the boxer does not suffer from hand pain, they will punch more, which means that the boxer will take the jet more, causing wrist and joint injury.
“The gloves protect the hands, body and face very well, but they increase the fighting force and that allows you to launch more punches,” Tristan Carter – a prestigious boxing box of social network Quora.
On the contrary, on the boxing floor, where there is no protective gloves, the boxers will try to launch as much blow as possible. The pace of the bare bare boxing matches is very fluttering. They had to end the match early before their hands became painful and afraid to throw the blow.
In essence, speeding up the pace of the match is also to win and avoid wrist injury.
That mallet leads to a consequence, when the fighters attacked incorrectly, they started to drop physically and hurt their hands.
At this time, there are only two options, either hugging the battle until losing, or putting all the remaining strengths for the opponent to knockout as quickly as possible. When the attack is more, they are more loopholes, which makes the match quickly close, sooner or later one of the two boxers will be knocked.
In bare boxing tournaments, the audience will see more Knockdown and Knockout than the professional boxing boxing. According to the Boxing Law, each match has only 5 rounds, each 2 minutes. This is forced to use a lot of attack tactics instead of holding the defense head.
That rule has made a bare boxing match end early and the boxers also limit the wrist injury.
These injuries are still not the most dangerous for boxers. There is one thing that is still heavy and leaves more harm than broken forehead, broken arms, … it is brain injury.
The punches with protective gloves damage the brain more than without gloves. According to a study by the University of Washington, when a person punched up sandbags with gloves will create more than 27.9% movement than when not wearing gloves. This shows that when punching the head, the brain will shake and hurt more when the boxer wears gloves.
It is not surprising that the American Neurological Surgery Association announced statistics that nearly 90% of boxing boxers suffered brain damage to some extent throughout the floor career. That increases the risk of central neuropathy like Parkinson or Alzheimer's when getting old.
A typical example is Muhammad Ali's legend. He showed signs of lisp and stuttering for a few years, before he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at the age of 42.
The evil disease has caused the monument of the boxing village to live in the last years of life with tremor, hard -shackled limbs. In the last days of his life, the complication of the disease could not speak and exercise, all activities depend on others.
The question of bare -handed boxing is more dangerous than the professional boxing is not a complicated question. Intely, it can be seen that bare -handed boxing may be more dangerous. However, in the long run, professional boxing brings more harm to the boxers.