Resources
Buyer's guides for custom boxing gloves and fight gear.
What gyms, clubs and brands ask before a custom order, answered in full: glove sizes, minimum orders, making in Sialkot, and a sizing sheet to collect your club's sizes.
- Written for gyms, clubs and brands
- Free to read, no sign-up
- A club sizing sheet to download
- Answers before you ask for a quote
The guides
Three guides to read before you order.
Each answers one part of a custom order in full, with the typical figures, what we confirm with your order, and what to ask any maker.
GuideSize GuideGlove weights, measuring, and sizing a whole club or brand order.It answersWhat glove weight suits each use and each person?How do I measure for gloves, head guards, belts and apparel?How are the sizes for a whole order settled?Read the Size Guide
GuideMOQ GuideWhat a minimum order counts, what sets it, and how to plan a first order.It answersWhat is the minimum, and how is it counted?What raises a minimum, and what keeps it lower?What should I ask any maker about their MOQ?Read the MOQ Guide
GuideWhy Pakistani ManufacturingWhy so many boxing gloves are made in Sialkot, and how to check a maker there.It answersWhy is Sialkot known for fight gear?How does it compare with high-volume manufacturing hubs?How do I tell a maker from a trader?Read the guide
Guides on the blog
- Sublimation, DTF or screen print: choosing a branding method for fight gear
- Genuine leather, PU or microfibre: choosing a boxing glove material
- What to include in a custom fight gear brief
- Pearl weave or gold weave: choosing fabric for custom BJJ gis
- How much do custom boxing gloves cost?
- Private label, OEM or white label: what each means for fight gear
- How to start a boxing glove brand
- Boxing glove compliance for UK and EU sale and competition
- Caring for club boxing gloves
- How to choose a fight gear manufacturer: 12 checks before you order
The short answers
What buyers ask most, answered in a line.
The facts behind every custom order. Each one links to the guide or page that explains it in full.
- Glove weights8–16 oz for adults, 4 or 6 oz for kids, MMA gloves 4–10 oz, S to XL.Size Guide
- Minimum order50 pieces per design (pairs for gloves), split across sizes in any mix.MOQ Guide
- Not sure of quantity?Ask anyway. The quote form needs only your name and email.MOQ Guide
- Samples and bulkFree sample in 7–10 days; bulk typically 3–6 weeks after you approve it, plus courier transit. Your exact dispatch date is confirmed in writing with your quote.Our Process
- MaterialsGenuine leather, PU or microfibre, built to the same construction.Capabilities
- BrandingThree methods, all in our own workshop: sublimation, DTF and heat transfer, and screen print.Capabilities
- ShippingBy international courier to the UK and Europe, tracked to your door.Export Process
- ReordersYour specification and approved sample are kept, so a reorder matches.MOQ Guide
By buyer
Where to start, for your kind of order.
Three reading paths through the guides, one for each kind of buyer we make for, in the order that helps most.
Clubs and gyms
Member kit across every size, in club colours, with gloves, pads and apparel matching.
Read in this order
- 1Choose glove weights for your members
- 2Collect sizes with the club sizing sheet
- 3Plan the order around the minimum
Fightwear brands
A first run under your own labels, then a range built out from it.
Read in this order
- 1Understand how a minimum is counted
- 2Check you are dealing with the maker
- 3See the materials and branding methods
Strength and fitness gyms
Lifting belts, straps and training wear in your gym's colours.
Read in this order
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Find an answer
Start from your question.
The questions buyers ask most, grouped by where you are in the order. Each goes straight to the part of the site that answers it.
Planning the order
Before you ask for a quote.
Choosing a maker
Comparing suppliers and quotes.
Ordering and delivery
From your brief to your door.
For coaches
Collect your club's sizes on one sheet.
Print it and hand it round: a row per member for body weight, hand, glove weight, head, waist, top and shorts size, with how to measure and totals ready for your quote request.
Glossary
The terms you will meet in a quote.
Fourteen words that come up between a brief and a delivery, in plain English.
- Approved sample
- The sample you sign off before bulk production. Bulk is checked against it, and it is kept for reorders.
- Bulk
- The full production run, made once the sample is approved.
- Colourway
- One colour combination of a design. Two colourways of the same glove are two runs of material and branding.
- DAP and DDP
- Delivery terms (Incoterms). Under DAP the goods reach your door and you pay the import duty; under DDP the seller pays the duty too.
- DTF (direct to film)
- A logo printed onto film, then heat-pressed onto the product: multi-colour detail on almost any material.
- EORI number
- The number a business needs to import goods into the UK or the EU. Your courier or customs broker will ask for it.
- GSP+ and DCTS
- The EU's and the UK's trade schemes that can reduce or remove import duty on qualifying goods made in Pakistan.
- MOQ
- Minimum order quantity: the smallest run a maker will produce of a product. It can be counted per design, per colourway or per size.
- Ounces (oz)
- A boxing glove's weight, most of it padding. A heavier glove carries more padding.
- Private label
- Products made to your specification and sold under your own brand, labels and packaging.
- PU leather
- Synthetic polyurethane leather: a lower cost per piece, an even surface for bright colours, and no animal leather.
- Statement on origin
- The exporter's declaration that goods were made in Pakistan, needed to claim a GSP+ or DCTS duty reduction.
- Sublimation
- Printing where the dye goes into polyester fabric, so a full-colour design runs edge to edge and cannot crack or peel.
- Tech pack
- The document that specifies a product: measurements, materials, artwork placement and the bill of materials.
Ready to ask
What to have ready before you ask for a quote.
Five things make a complete brief. None has to be final, and what you do not know yet, we work out with you.
- 1The product and a rough quantityA rough idea is enough, or say you are not sure.Planning an order
- 2Your logoAttach it to the form, as PDF, AI, PNG or JPG.
- 3Colours, or a product you want to matchColour codes, a swatch or a photo.
- 4Sizes, if you know themRough counts are enough to plan.Club sizing sheet
- 5Where the order ships toThe country, for the courier and delivery terms.Export process
Start your order
Read enough? Send us your brief.
The product, your logo, a rough quantity and where it ships. A person reads every request and replies with your quote, or the questions that decide it.
Prefer to talk first? Message us on WhatsApp
Nothing goes to bulk until you approve it.
What happens next
Send your brief
Product, logo, rough quantity and destination — or whatever you have so far.
Approve a mockup
See your design on the product before anything is made.
Sign off a sample
Bulk production starts only against the sample you approve.
Nothing goes to bulk until you approve it.