Mayweather-Pacquiao glove dispute settled by Nevada Commission

By Boxing News - 05/02/2015 - Comments

1-MAYPAC WEIGH IN-TRAPPFOTOS-3614By Dan Ambrose: Manny Pacquiao and his team will be getting their way when it comes to the choice of gloves that Pacquiao will be wearing for his fight tonight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. The Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) has sided with Pacquiao’s camp to allow him to wear his Reyes puncher’s gloves for the fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Last Friday, Mayweather’s team [TMT] filed a protest about Pacquiao’s Reyes gloves, arguing that they had horse hair inside the gloves rather than either foam or a mixture of horse hair and foam. However, Pacquiao’s team had already quickly gotten the NSAC to approve the gloves before Mayweather’s team had a chance to look them over.

TMT were hoping that CBS President and CEO Les Moonves could step in and help workout the issue like he had twice before with the contract negotiations, but Pacquiao’s camp stated that the NSAC were the ones that had the power to decide on the gloves. According to Fight News, TMP has withdrawn their protest once it was clear that the NSAC had already approved Pacquiao’s Reyes gloves.

At this point it’s unclear if Pacquiao’s gloves are filled entirely of horse hair rather than a mixture of horse hair and foam. If it’s all horse hair, then it’s understandable why Mayweather’s team would be concerned about the gloves. In hindsight, Mayweather’s team should have inspected Pacquiao’s gloves before they presented them to the NSAC so that they would have had a better chance of having them thrown out for another pair.

Mayweather will be wearing Grant gloves for the fight. These are the opposite of Reyes gloves, as they’re known to have a lot of foam around the knuckles of the gloves. Mayweather has hand problems in the past, and this is why he prefers to have gloves with a lot of padding around the knuckles.

It’s better for Pacquiao that Mayweather is wearing the Grant gloves because if he were wearing the Reyes gloves it could potentially be more painful each time he gets hit by him.

Mayweather will be looking to make Pacquiao miss as much as possible tonight, which could render Pacquiao’s Reyes puncher’s gloves as useless to him.



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