Bandages (Repealed)

(a) In all classes up to and including middleweights, all bandages on the hands of a boxer shall be restricted to soft surgical gauze not more than 10 yards in length and 2 inches in width, held in place by not more than 4 feet of surgeon's tape for each hand. (b) In all other classes the bandages must be soft surgical gauze not more than 12 yards in length and not more than 2 inches in width, held in place by not more than 8 feet of surgeon's tape for each hand. (c) The use of 6 inches of adhesive tape, not more than 1 inch wide, will be permitted across the back of each hand before bandaging the hands provided that no adhesive tape may be placed over the knuckles. (d) These bandages will be applied in the dressing room in the presence of the commissioner or his representative. Under no condition are gloves to be placed on the hands of the boxer until the bandages are approved and marked by the commissioner or his representative.