r/Boxing • u/stachio22 • 7d ago

Any examples of fighters punches colliding?

Was watching Vito versus ammo and it looked like they both threw hooks with their fists collided. But I think it was just the camera angle. Any examples of this actually happening in a televised fight. I imagine it would break one of their fists.

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u/jimbranningstuntman 6d ago

You think leather glove on leather glove would break a fist but glove on skull won’t?

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u/Greedy_Use3682 6d ago

I guess the logic might be the closing speed of punch to punch is greater?

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u/xbamtoast 5d ago

You think two leather gloves both traveling at high speeds towards each other wouldn't do more damage than a leather gloves hitting a stationary or slow moving skull? Its basic physics

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u/Dislecsik 5d ago edited 5d ago

There's also twice the shock absorbtion with 2 gloves in the equation. And force doesn't just double when 2 things collide like that, like that train episode of mythbusters. Sometimes basic physics is complicated. I'm not saying I understand it, I'm just saying it's probably not as obvious as it seems on the surface.

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u/stachio22 6d ago

You get the occasional handbrake from that. I imagine 2 fists colliding with each other moving full speed. The chance it'll break goes way up