The veteran of MMA Kab Suonson (19-5) after the UFC 159 tournament collapsed with sharp criticism to the sports equipment used at carrying out the UFC tournaments.

"To be honest, I consider that gloves in MMA - full shit. First of all, they square. When you are given out gloves before fight, they look as a flat square 4-untsovy piece of skin. They say that fingers in a glove have to be open in order that the athlete could fight without inconveniences, and then - to clench a fist and to strike blow.

I consider that gloves have to be rounded because sometimes in fight blows are struck from under the most inconceivable corners. Besides, if you relax a hand during fight, in present gloves your fingers will stick out extensively therefore so often there are tychka in an eye during fight.

Fir-trees of a glove would be bent slightly inside, the relaxed hand would do less harm at hit in eyes and it wasn't necessary to strain so to clench a fist in a new glove.

When we receive gloves, UFC gives us time for that we could bring them into an appropriate look. They new, very rigid and inconvenient, it is necessary to stretch them. Some commissions, such as in Toronto, for example, forbid to receive gloves in advance. But if not to break them properly, they are devilishly inconvenient.

In an ideal, I have to receive gloves at least a day before fight and long time to beat on a pear that they accepted a normal form and didn't disturb blood circulation in fingers. Otherwise it is necessary to save on bandages, and it leads to the next changes", - Suonson told.

The president of UFC Deyn White commented on a situation with frequent in MMA hits of fingers in the eyes, become the reason of two technical solutions on UFC 159:

"These gloves are approved by the Athletic commissions of all country. With boxing gloves in the 70th, and even at the beginning of the 80th there was the same problem: guys constantly injured eyes each other because Everlast gloves used then in a form reminded a lobster claw, and scratched eyes at each sliding hit.

I simply don't represent as it is possible to combine differently shock sports and a greppling if not to be reconciled with open fingers in gloves", - White told.

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