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Weighted Gloves

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It is a stock cheat in boxing for one to conceal something hard and heavy in one's glove. Classically done with a horseshoe.
A character employing this tactic in non-professional contexts is probably a Combat Pragmatist.
Interestingly, the point of a boxing glove is not to dampen the blow, it's to protect the hand. Hiding a horseshoe or similarly hard things in your boxing glove would be just as likely to damage your fingers as your opponent's face (real weighted sap gloves use powdered steel or lead, adding mass and density while conforming to the shape of the puncher's hand). This simply makes it an Acceptable Break from Reality.
Compare Power Fist; Power Fists may be used in straight fights as much as it is for cheating. Enhanced Punch in general is a less mundane form of this. Compare also Tricked-Out Gloves for gloves that are used for more than just punching. Handbag of Hurt and Sock It to Them also commonly go with a similar principle: something heavy is put inside the handbag/sock so it can pack hard hit.

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A variation in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: in order to get into the Goron Mines, you need to defeat their elder in a sumo match. The Gorons are twice Link's height and made of stone, so naturally he gets sent flying in a second. Link talks to Mayor Bo, the only human ever to defeat a Goron in sumo wrestling, who reveals he used a little secret: massive weighted boots that allowed him to withstand the Goron's charge. The Gorons are very much against cheating, but they never notice you putting the boots on.
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In the Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries episode "Deadweight" Weighted Gloves are used against a young boxer in a local boxing ring until Constable Hugh Collins steps in and tells them to ditch them.
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The Doctor Blake Mysteries: In "A Lethal Combination", Charlie's brother Ray has his hand wraps coated in plaster of Paris before a boxing match. As the match progresses, the plaster absorbs sweat and hardens, allowing him to deliver much more solid blows.
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Rohn Torogon, enforcer for the Kekonese-Espenians in Southtrap in the Green Bone Saga, is usually seen wearing a pair of padded weighted gloves. They double as where he keeps the jade that gives him increased speed and strength.
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The Simpsons. In "The Homer They Fall" episode, Homer sees that Moe has a boxing glove with barbed wire on it which Moe refers to as "The Stinger". Moe says "yeah, they don't let you use that no more."
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has a Villain of the Week who plays with this trope. Carl Creel (who comic book fans will know as the Absorbing Man) could change parts or all of his body into anything he touched. Before getting recruited by HYDRA, he was a boxer and would hide steel hands under his gloves.
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Legend of Korra. In pro-bending, waterbenders are the only ones allowed to use headshots due to the Soft Water trope. One of the ways the Wolfbats cheat is by adding rocks into their water missiles, which does more damage.
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Brought up in Welkin Weasels, when Prince Poynt suggests cheating at a boxing match by weighting his favoured boxer's gloves. It doesn't work, as it's then explained to him that it's a bare-knuckle boxing match.
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In "Hare Trimmed", Bugs pretends to be a French gentlemen rival to Yosemite Sam for the love of a rich widow. Sam gives Bugs "a taste of leather" and Bugs responds in kind... but not before putting a brick inside the glove. After hitting Sam, he shakes out the pulverized remains.
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Discworld. In Night Watch, Sam Vimes lays out Ronald Rust with this trick, then turns to his men, rubs his knuckles and says
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In Spy vs. Spy, one spy used this trick to defeat the other — although, in the strip's usual Gambit Pileup fashion, the other spy spotted him doing it and came into the ring wearing a mask of his own face over an iron helmet.
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In the Donald Duck cartoon "Canvas Back Duck", Donald's nephews put scraps of metal in his glove, but it only makes the glove too heavy to lift. His hand slips off and his fist accidentally hits the other fighter in the jaw. Fortunately, the opponent had a "glass jaw" and is out like a light.
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Killer Instinct: TJ Combo got his start cheating at boxing when he was twelve years old when he removed some of the paddings from his right glove and replaced it with a roll of quarters to get revenge on another boy for his Unsportsmanlike Gloating.
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In the "Collateral Damage" episode of Blue Bloods a bunch of executives engage in a boxing Fight Club. When one of them dies after a match, the detectives find that the winner's gloves have been doctored to make them heavier.
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There's a minor character in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim who boasts about winning a brawl by using a horseshoe as a knuckle-duster. Fittingly, his name is Irnskar Iron-Hand.
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Ask the Ryans has several jokes about characters loading their gloves. The most notable instance was a strip where Rory unsuccessfully tried to convince Aran to stuff firecrackers in his gloves.
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In Fallout 2, you can make a name for yourself as a boxer in New Reno. During the boxing matches, you are stripped of all equipment and given a pair of boxing gloves to fight with, and any other attack will disqualify the PC. The boxing gloves deal very little damage, and the PC needs either good critical hits or dedicated damage perks to win. However, in the same city, you can find a pair of boxing gloves with plates slipped into the knuckles, allowing all but the last fight to be won by dealing hit point damage (it is possible for a character to be too weak in combat to do even that, but most such characters are disallowed from the boxing ring anyway unless you trick the system by wearing Power Armor).
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Fallout 4: Boxing gloves return as weapons in Fallout 4. The workbench lets you improve them by adding metal plates for more damage with the right perk, but there's no boxing tournaments to enter in the game so you're stuck using them on regular enemies.
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The Smallville episode "Jinx" reverses this as Clark plans to hide a piece of kryptonite in his football gloves to try to weaken himself so he can compete on a level footing. It doesn't work.
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In the Hogan's Heroes episode "The Softer They Fall", Hogan sets up an exhibition boxing match between Kinch and the Germans' champion, Bruno, as a cover to a break-in to Klink's quarters to steal some vital information. To ensure they win, Burkhalter orders Klink and Bruno to cheat, which they do by hiding a pair of metal bars in Bruno's gloves to guarantee a knockout. Kinch manages to dodge and outlast Bruno until the heist is complete, at which he knocks the German down with one punch (though Hogan calls the fight in Bruno's favor to ensure they don't get in trouble).
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A variant: The episode "Requiem for a Lightweight" from M*A*S*H has Trapper agree to fight General Barker's goon to win back a pretty nurse. Knowing he'd be pummeled to jelly otherwise, Trapper allows Hawkeye to soak his boxing gloves in ether. By keeping his glove near his opponent's nose, Trapper exposes him to enough ether fumes to pass out in the ring, thus winning the match.
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On the Goofy cartoon "The Art of Self-Defense", two 18th Century dandies slap each other with gloves. During a break in the action, one of them sneaks his snuff-box into his glove.
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In the "Old Mrs. Old" episode of Malcolm in the Middle, Dewey carries a purse (or man-handbag) to school and is bullied by other kids on the way home for doing so. But then he swings it at one of the kids, and whap!—turns out he put a brick inside it.
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Subverted in Chaplin's later film City Lights, which has a similar plot of the hero volunteering for a box fight to raise money. In the locker room he finds a horseshoe which he fiddles with but eventually dismisses and goes to fight without. We can only assume that Chaplin figured that people would have seen the previous horseshoe scene in The Champion and expected him to try the same trick again. This time he fools them by tossing it away.
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"Rabbit Punch" has the boxer and Bugs remove their gloves. When Bugs removes his, two horseshoes fall out of each one.
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Tiny Toon Adventures also used the "horseshoes-and-horse-in-the-glove" variant of the gag in "Citizen Max".
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The Westerner: Denny Lipp, the bad guy in "Jeff", does the bare knuckle equivalent of this trope: soaking his fists in brine before a fight to harden his punches.
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The "Fight Night" episode of CSI centered on a boxing match. The winner of the match was found to have injected mercury into his glove.
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In Use Sword on Monster Hilda wears sap gloves, not really legal but useful for taking someone out without killing them. Especially seeing how as a "sword-swinger" the magic makes her fight on autopilot until her enemy is no longer a threat.
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The Iron Sheik had a loaded boot. When he set his opponent up for the finisher, he'd shake his boot, causing all the lead pellets (or whatever was supposed to be in there) to collect at the tip of his boot, so a kick would knock his opponent unconscious.
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Used in a pillow fight in Negima! Magister Negi Magi. Obviously, the rules call for pillows to be used, but Rules Lawyer Yue figures that she can use heavy books to hit her opponents if she's hitting the pillows (with them underneath). She is a lot more blatant about this when they realise she's hiding books in her pillows.
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In The Red Vixen Adventures Alinadar wears fingerless gloves with lead weights, among several other easily concealed weapons.
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In Rurouni Kenshin, Hannya, whose fighting style revolves around punching his enemies, hides iron knuckledusters in his otherwise normal looking gloves.
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Eamann, a local bully, hides stones in his hand wraps for his climactic fight against Frances in Float Like A Butterfly.
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In Eight Count, Slade Wilson lost his eye in a boxing match years before the main story when an opponent loaded his gloves with metal.
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In an episode of Mister Go, the titular character decides to fight a boxer for some prize money, and he does so by loading his gloves with a bunch of metal screws. One of the gloves comes loose when he tries to punch, landing on his head and exposing his cheating.
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In Porky Pig's Feat, Daffy, having lost the money to pay his and Porky's hotel bill in a craps game, insults the hotel manager after refusing to pay. The manager slaps Daffy with his glove and challenges him to a duel ("You have insulted me! We meet on the field of honor! My Card"). Daffy then slips a horseshoe into a glove and imitates the challenge ("You have insult me! We meet on the field of onion!") and hits the manager with the glove, then slaps a piece of flypaper on his face ("My card, you cad!")
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