I have fond memories of my old Amateur Boxing Club. The tattered ring, the huge gothic looking windows with a permanent hole in one of them, the frayed issues of the old classic newspaper style Boxing News piled up on the tables. What I don't miss is the run we had to endure each week and putting on a pair of smelly bag mitts that countless other people had used. While I now follow boxing from the safe side of the ropes I do have a painted cellar with a dartboard, a small punch bag and a pair of BBE Bag Mitts that I probably don't use as often as I should do. It's actually quite cosy down there with the radio on in the background but I digress. The mitts I remember from .  Read the complete review

When your hitting the bag, you really want something light enough to allow you to throw a punch the way you want to throw it, but padded enough to ensure there is a lot of protection for your hand in each punch. The mitts cost £7.99 on Amazon, reduced from an original recommended retail price of £11.99. The gloves are a dark red with a red thumb and black palm side, the gloves have a BBE insignia on the front side, in a small 5 centimetre square. Looks: The gloves look the part, they are a decent size, although when you wear them they do seem slightly awkward looking and odd shaped for mitts. Overall the red looks effective ...  Read the complete review

I brought my husband a boxing bag around 6 years ago and it came with a lovely se of gloves but they had been used to death literally so we needed to get some new ones. I decided to have a look on Amazon for these and use my dooyoo miles to pay for them, this is the set I chose as they were a good price at £7.64, why are amazons prices so weird. These gloves claim to be durable and well padded, my husband thinks these have got enough padding in them but I beg to differ as they hurt my knuckles a lot more when I am working the bag than my previous pair used to and a little more padding could have stopped this. The padding at the fingertips of these ...  Read the complete review

My boyfriend has a punch bag. I tried giving it a punch or two with his gloves, but they were too big and became to loose on my hands. So he encouraged me to go out and buy my own, which I did! I purchase a pair of BBE bag mitts on line for just £9.99. Fairly reasonable I am told for a pair of gloves, but this cheapness is obviously down to the quality they offer. When I got them home and gave them a go I was in the main, disappointed. The first thing to note is that these gloves are very thin. When I put them on they fit snuggly. They stayed on my hands tightly, so I decided to go give them a go. I hit the punch bag as hard as I could and felt a throbbing in ...  Read the complete review

Now i'm not the best boxer, so i needed a glove with lots of protection. With these £7.99 mitts, things went wrong. The mitts are a shape that allows you to strike out accurately and place your hits where you want to, a luxury you don't get with most gloves. However, this less bulky design means a loss of protection. Don't get me wrong, the knuckle area is padded very well, protecting you from any damage, however lower down near your wrists it wears thin. Bam, two sprained wrists for me. The mitts may look the part with their devil red exterior but when it comes to safety they let you down entirely. A major flaw. If this werent' an issue i'd have no ...  Read the complete review