^^Being told your participating in a match without gloves? This is the reaction your hands will give as they know they are about to be broken.^^ The first recorded history of boxing with gloves was in 2000 1000 BC in Sardinia. This is despite the fact that carvings from Egypt and Iraq show that boxing has existed for at least 4500 5000 years. Nevertheless, bare knuckle boxing still exists today in its own right while many sanctioned boxing fights were contested without gloves as late as the 1920s. You'd never see some of the world's biggest stars stepping in the ring without gloves today, however.
