Ok, here's my review of the gloves:
I bought the 16 oz black Heatseekers. The first thing I noticed was that the contrasting strip of leather around the thumb piece is actually white instead of red like on the Title website. Other people have posted pics of the black glove that shows this, but I guess I didn't notice. Not a big deal, just thought I'd point that out.
Here is a pic of the gloves laced with 3/8" elastic laces:
I'm wearing 180" hand wraps under the gloves. They stay on rather snug, but I can still tighten them quite a bit more and still be able to get them on over the wraps. I've decided to just use them this way instead of going with the hook and loop converters.
Triumph Heatseekers with Title Hook and Loop Converter I'll post comments and pics of them with the Title lace covers when I get around to ordering some... but that probably won't be for a month or two.
Here are pics of a few flaws:
The leather used on the glove is rather tight and smooth. Some of these creases appear to have been caused by the way the gloves were stored. When I pulled them out of the packaging the creases were flattened against the plastic bag they were shipped in. They seemed to have smoothed out some since then.
A couple of small gouges in the leather, which appear to be from the factory and not from later damage.
Some indentions on the front which probably came from shipping... its been about half a day since I've unpacked them and they haven't smoothed out yet. Not too big of a deal.
Bit of a shoddy stitching job here.
Not huge things, but I just wanted to point out that at least the pair I received aren't perfect. The quality of the glove overall is quite good, but not quite as good as I thought they would be. They're definitely $70-85 gloves, but I wouldn't pay $110 for them(the original full price). At $40 though, they're simply great.
The hand compartment is very compact and snug in my medium width and short fingered hands. They're snugger than any other 16 oz glove I've used, but I will admit that has been limited to Ringside/Top Contender, Tuf-Wear, and a few cheapo gloves. The glove is compact overall for a 16 oz. Most other training gloves I've used are bulky by comparison.
The wrist support is excellent. I have small wrists and usually have to lace gloves up rather tight to get good support. There's a good amount of padding on the underside of the glove around the wrist, more so than other gloves I've used. However, on the ridge side of the hand the padding stops half way up on the palm.
The leather on the glove is a thin, taut, and smooth sheeny type. That's about as accurate as I can describe it. For comparison the leather on Tuf-Wear laceups are rather thick, loose, soft, and supple. This is not to say that the leather on the Heatseekers are brittle, it seems rather tough and I'm sure it can stand some abuse. Where as the leather on the Tuf-wear gloves will bunch up if I press hard on them with my fingers, the leather on the Heatseekers stays mostly flat. Generally the leather on the Heatseekers will have less friction when making contact due to the smoother surface.
Hope this helps those of you deciding on whether to buy the gloves.
