The former UFC Champion goes on one of his classic rants, this time about the UFC's latest change which comes into play this Saturday.
After more than 30 years in the business, the UFC is shaking things up with a new glove design that includes a number of additional features and tweaks to their overall construction. The UFC's new '3EIGHT/5EIGHT' gloves reportedly help prevent abrasions and cuts, have more padding to protect vulnerable bone structure and also contain a wristband locking system designed to reduce glove grabbing.
Jan 20, 2024; Toronto, Canada, USA; Sean Strickland fights Dricus Du Plessis during UFC 297 at ScotiaBank Arena. Mandatory Credit: Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports / Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports "They suck," Strickland said of the new gloves at UFC 302 media day. "I don't know who like... really, could we talk to the person who designed these gloves? Have you ever been in a fight in your f****** life? It's like you get these f****** dorks who have no idea. They're like, 'Oh, this sounds like a good idea.' And they make it. Same thing with motorcycles. Like, I bought motorcycles and they put so much stupid s***on it.
"What was the reasoning that they want to try to make it so people stop poking people in the eyes?" Strickland added. "They're a little bit more like a stitched. At the end of the day, people f****** get poked in the eyes because they open their f****** hands, unless you put a boxing glove on, that s**** not gonna stop. So, it's just people creating a problem that we did not have.
Fans will have to wait until after UFC 302 concludes to find out how the other 23 fighters competing on the card in Newark, NJ feel about the new UFC glove design. The championship main event between Islam Makhachev and Dustin Poirier will see the two lightweights don new gold gloves reserved for title bouts, while the rest of the fighters such as Strickland and his opponent Paulo Costa will be wearing the standard black gloves familiar to UFC fans.
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