These guys dont wear gloves, they are really fist protectors. So what appears to be a nothing punch hurts a great deal. If you put those same types of protectors on heavyweight boxers instead of gloves, they would kill each other.

This sport is absolutely brutal. Yet it is interesting as styles of fighting clash and one is never really sure what will happen. That Rulon?Gardner kid who won the gold in Greco-Roman wrestling has gotten into this. He looks fat but he is so strong. And he has actually learned how to punch. It should be interesting to see how he progresses.