Hatton Boxing Equipment UK: The Full Range Reviewed (2026)

Most people who search for Hatton mean the punch bag — we've covered that in full in our dedicated Hatton bag review. This guide covers everything else the range makes: gloves, pads, the speed ball, and the BOX12 Boxing Pod for gyms running coached group sessions.

The short answer: Hatton's gloves and pads (from £48) are built to the same commercial standard as the bags — genuine leather, developed in collaboration with Ricky Hatton MBE, and priced to sit above supermarket boxing gear without tipping into pro-fighter pricing. For a gym or studio running group coaching, the BOX12 Boxing Pod at £7,440 is a different proposition entirely — a self-contained four-bag coaching station rather than a piece of personal kit.

What does Hatton make beyond the punch bag?

A full boxing kit, not just a bag. The range covers lace-up and Velcro gloves, focus pads, a speed ball, home bundles that combine a bag with gloves, and the BOX12 Boxing Pod for commercial group coaching — developed in collaboration with Ricky Hatton MBE, the Manchester-born former two-weight world champion, and built to a genuine leather, commercial-use standard rather than a supermarket one.

What ties the whole range together with the rest of our catalogue is the supply chain: Jordan Fitness supplies Hatton, which is why Hatton bags mount on Jordan wall brackets without any adapter or workaround — more on that below.

Are Hatton boxing gloves good enough for serious training?

Yes, and the two ranges split cleanly by closure rather than by quality. Both are genuine leather and both come in the full 8–16oz range; the difference is how they go on your hands.

If you train alone, the Velcro pair is the practical choice — you can glove up and adjust without help. If you spar or train with a coach who laces you up, the lace-up pair gives marginally better wrist lockdown for the money.

Kit for this: buy gloves in the weight you'll actually train in, not the lightest one that fits — see the next section.

Hatton Boxing Lace Up Boxing Gloves£82View product →Hatton Pro Leather Gloves with Velcro£68View product →

What weight boxing gloves do you need?

10oz is the floor for supervised training, and most home users are better served heavier. England Boxing's own gym inspection club checklist requires club gloves to have "foam of sufficient depth across the knuckles" and be "a minimum of 10oz in weight" — a floor set for supervised sparring, not a recommendation for solo bag work.

For unsupervised heavy bag training at home, go heavier still: 14–16oz gives more cushioning for your hands and more resistance training for your shoulders during longer sessions. Reserve 8–10oz for pad work with a coach or short, technical sparring, where the lighter glove is a deliberate choice rather than a default.

Hatton's own range covers 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16oz in both the lace-up and Velcro lines, so the decision is about training goal, not availability.

Are Hatton focus pads worth it, or do you need a training partner regardless?

You need a partner or coach either way — pads are a two-person tool, not a bag substitute. What the Hatton AirPro Hook and Jab Pads (£84 a pair) add is air-flow cooling and genuine leather construction built to absorb full-power combinations without breaking down — the difference between a pad that lasts one season of regular coaching and one that lasts several.

If nobody is holding pads for you, put the money into a heavier bag instead — see our Hatton bag review for the full range.

Hatton AirPro Hook and Jab Pads (Pair)£84View product →Hatton Boxing Speed Ball£48View product →

What is the Hatton Speed Ball actually for?

Timing and rhythm, not power. The leather speed ball trains the classic three-rebound method — the ball returns to the same striking position after each hit, so you're training hand-eye coordination and shoulder endurance rather than knockout power. It's the piece most home setups skip and most coaches wish more people owned: it exposes sloppy hand return faster than any bag does.

It needs its own mounting board rather than a bag bracket, so factor that into a home installation before you order.

What is the BOX12 Boxing Pod, and who is it actually for?

Group coaching capacity, not personal training kit. At £7,440, the BOX12 Boxing Pod is a self-contained, four-station boxing setup that lets one coach run a full class rather than one member at a time — the same throughput logic that makes cable machines and multi-station strength rigs worth their floor space commercially.

This is squarely a gym, studio or PT-business purchase rather than a home one. If you're weighing it against building four individual bag stations from scratch, the comparison is worth doing on space and coaching capacity, not just the sticker price — call us and we'll talk through both.

Hatton BOX12 Boxing Pod£7,440View product →

Is Jordan Fitness behind the Hatton brand?

Yes — Jordan Fitness is Hatton's supplier, and it's the reason the two ranges pair without friction. Every Jordan wall bracket and punch bag chain fits a Hatton bag directly: the 2ft Fixed Bracket at £92, the 3ft Folding Bracket at £120, the 1.25m Elite Bracket at £238 (150kg rated, 500kg swivel), the Retractable Bracket at £358, and chains from £48.

That relationship is packaged directly in The Boxing Setup (from £442.51) — a Hatton bag, Hatton gloves and a Jordan bracket sold as one product, so the mounting decision is made for you rather than left as a separate purchase after the bag arrives.

Kit for this: if you're buying a bag and don't already own a bracket, buy them together — a bracket added to a bag order over £250 costs nothing extra to deliver.

The Boxing Setup (Bag, Gloves & Bracket)From £442.51View product →JORDAN Wall Brackets for Boxing Bags£92 – £358View product →

How common are hand and wrist injuries in boxing?

Common enough at competition level to be worth taking seriously, and rarer in training than most people assume. Loosemore, Lightfoot, Gatt, Hayton and Beardsley (2017), published in Hand, tracked the Great Britain Olympic boxing squad over seven years and found the hand and wrist injury rate in competition was 347 injuries per 1,000 hours, against an estimated fewer than 0.5 per 1,000 hours in training — a roughly 700-fold difference. The most common diagnoses were carpometacarpal instability and "boxer's knuckle."

The practical read for a home or gym buyer: proper gloves and a well-maintained bag matter, but the biggest risk sits in live sparring and competition, not in bag work on your own. If sparring is part of your training, invest in wraps and correctly fitted gloves before anything else on this page.

What equipment standard should a boxing club or gym meet?

England Boxing's own club inspection checklist is worth reading even if you're not running an affiliated club, because it's a specific, testable standard rather than vague good practice. On bags specifically, it requires equipment to be "padded correctly to not cause hand damage with no hard spots or exposed tears," with "bag chains and fastening securely and in good repair," and bags spaced "at least 1.5 metres apart" where more than one is installed. On gloves: a minimum of four pairs "in good repair," no rips, "foam of sufficient depth across the knuckles," minimum 10oz.

None of this is optional if you're setting up an affiliated club, and all of it is good practice for a serious home or commercial gym regardless.

How much does the full Hatton range cost?

From £48 for the speed ball to £7,440 for the BOX12 Boxing Pod. Verified live on 9 September 2026.

Browse the full Hatton Boxing collection, or see the bags reviewed in depth in our dedicated bag guide.

Which Hatton products should you actually buy?

Start with a bag — that's the piece with the most training value per pound, and it's covered in full in our bag review. Add Pro Leather Velcro gloves in a weight you'll actually train in (14–16oz for solo bag work), and a Jordan bracket if you don't have a ceiling joist to hang from — or skip the decision entirely with The Boxing Setup, which bundles all three. Pads and a speed ball are genuine additions once the fundamentals are in place, not a starting point. For a gym or studio, the BOX12 Boxing Pod is worth a conversation about the room it needs to earn its keep.

Browse the full Hatton range, see the wider boxing equipment collection, or call 0333 880 3211 and we'll put a kit list together for your space and budget.

Frequently asked questions

What boxing gloves does Ricky Hatton's range include? Two lines — Lace Up (£82) and Pro Leather with Velcro (£68) — both genuine leather, both available from 8oz to 16oz. Lace-up gives the best wrist lockdown for sparring with a corner person; Velcro is the practical choice for solo training.

Do I need boxing gloves and hand wraps, or just gloves? Both, for anything beyond very light bag work. Wraps support the wrist and the small bones of the hand underneath the glove's padding; gloves alone don't protect the joints wraps are designed for. England Boxing's club standard treats wraps as standard kit for exactly this reason.

What's the difference between the Hatton 3-in-1 bag and the Professional bag? The Professional is a single straight heavy bag for power and combination work. The 3-in-1 combines a straight bag, a maize bag and a floor-to-ceiling ball in one unit — more variety in less space, at a lower entry price, but a single-purpose bag if you know exactly what you want to train.

Can I mount a Hatton bag on a Jordan bracket? Yes, directly — Jordan Fitness supplies Hatton, and the brackets and chains are designed to work together without an adapter. The Elite bracket (£238) is rated to 150kg with a 500kg-rated swivel, comfortably covering any Hatton bag.

Is the BOX12 Boxing Pod worth it over four separate bag stations? It depends on coaching model. A pod is built for one coach running a class across four stations in a single footprint; four separate stations give more flexibility in layout but need more floor space and more supervision to run safely at once. Tell us your room and class size and we'll help you compare.

How often should boxing gloves be replaced? When the foam over the knuckles compresses and stops rebounding, or the leather splits at the seams — there's no fixed interval. England Boxing's club standard requires gloves to be free of rips with foam "of sufficient depth," which is a good practical check to apply at home too.

Do I need a speed ball, or is it optional? Optional for pure fitness training, valuable for anyone working on hand speed and rhythm specifically. It doesn't replace a heavy bag or pads — it's a coordination tool that most home setups skip and most coaches recommend adding once the basics are covered.

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