Boxing Quote by Chad Mendes

“You take a bare knuckle and you put an MMA glove on it and you've got a half an inch or less of padding. So it's not like you have a full boxing glove to eat some of that. It's gonna be pretty much the same thing.” quote by Chad Mendes — Download Open image

“You take a bare knuckle and you put an MMA glove on it and you've got a half an inch or less of padding. So it's not like you have a full boxing glove to eat some of that. It's gonna be pretty much the same thing.”

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