[CydeWeys]

The point of boxing gloves is to protect your hands, not your opponent's brain. Hands aren't meant for punching, and repeatedly smacking them with great force into the hard skull of your opponent can easily damage them.

I suspect bare knuckle boxing is less satisfying (and thus less popular) because fights can end merely because one person can no longer effectively attack, rather than when one person is conclusively defeated by being knocked out. The KO is always the most widely satisfying finish in boxing and MMA.

[13of40]

> Hands aren't meant for punching

Actually...

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-human-fi...

[CydeWeys]

Very interesting. That's a hypothesis from just last year that doesn't yet have widespread scientific support though, so the jury's now out.

[thenomad]

They are less satisfying, but not for that reason so much.

Bare-knuckle fights can go on for a long, long time. I can't find the source just now, but I recall some fights went on for up to 24 hours.

That doesn't televise well.