Cleto Reyes

Cleto Reyes is a Mexican specialist in traditional lace-up boxing gloves. Its range includes a Training Gloves line, separate from its Contest Gloves line.

At 12, Cleto Reyes began working in a saddlery workshop. He also boxed as an amateur, and his glove making began when he repaired the gloves he had fought in. Cleto Reyes gloves were used in a World Championship fight in 1945. The company itself, Industria Reyes, was founded later, in 1979.

Its traditional gloves are genuine leather with a lace closure. Some glove makers say laces give a closer, more tailored fit than hook-and-loop. Laces are less convenient when you train alone, though: hook-and-loop can be tightened without help.