both fighters wore eight-ounce (230 g) gloves with brands of their choosing. mayweather wore custom grant gloves with a multicolored paisley pattern, red & purple trim and the letters tbe (the best ever) on the cuff. pacquiao wore standard red cleto reyes gloves with black & white trim. in pacquiao's third professional loss to érik morales, he was forced to use winning brand gloves the first time around. pacquiao's complaints were that the gloves felt like "pillows" and they did not give him the same power as his reyes "puncher's gloves." more recently, mayweather had glove issues in his first bout with marcos maidana, stating that maidana's everlast mx gloves did not provide sufficient padding for the knuckles. the issue was later resolved with marcos maidana resorting to using everlast powerlock type gloves, leaving maidana's trainer, robert garcia, unhappy with the negotiation.