{"id":896272,"date":"2026-09-18T07:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896272\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T07:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:20:11","slug":"british-boxing-board-of-control-to-ban-all-horsehair-padded-gloves-by-january-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896272\/","title":{"rendered":"British Boxing Board of Control to ban all horsehair-padded gloves by January 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to their announcement of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/new-weight-class-light-cruiserweight-to-be-introduced-by-the-bbbofc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">new light cruiserweight division<\/a>, this week, the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) also revealed their intention to ban boxing gloves utilizing horsehair for padding, as of January 1, 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally known as \u201cpuncher\u2019s gloves,\u201d horsehair-padded gloves produce reduced shock absorption while punching and a reported tendency to shift, compress and flatten during high-contact fights until they are similar to bare knuckles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In addition to their announcement of a new light cruiserweight division, this week, the British Boxing Board of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,465444,802,1920,6653,465443,85],"class_list":["post-896272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bbbofc","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-horsehair","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}