The athletic commission in Wyoming must be huge fans of Rogans podcast, because he swears no gloves would be better for MMA and is 1000% serious.
He is an advocate because he thinks it will reduce head trauma. In theory he is correct, as gloves were implemented to protect the combatants hands, not their brains.
So let's go bare knuckle to slow down on the CTE, but create an epidemic of broken knuckles, wrists and ligament damage instead!
It's dumb, maybe gloves were made to protect hands, but over the last century of combat sports trainers have gotten really skilled at wrapping a fighters hands and the technology of materials has increased to a point where a light weight, cusion like material can be compacted into a small package and is very effective at keeping fighters' hands intact.
Floyd Mayweather would have never been Floyd Mayweather if it wasn't for Raphael Garcia, who stepped in as his cut man early in his career and started taking care of his hands and wraps, as Floyd had suffered a series of hand injuries during some of his early bouts. Post Garcia he never had a single hand injury again.
