The participants generally wear larger gloves to minimize punch harm or impact on the combatants, headgear, and non-boxing related clothing.
[13] About six months after Ali beat him for the world Heavyweight title, George Foreman participated in five exhibition fights in one afternoon: on April 26, 1975, he boxed Jerry Judge, Boone Kirkman, Charley Polite, Terry Daniels and Alonzo Johnson at Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
[16] In 2009, recently retired boxer Óscar De La Hoya and basketball player Shaquille O'Neal held an exhibition boxing fight as an episode of the ABC television show Shaq Vs..[17] Late in 2014, Julio César Chávez returned to the ring for an exhibition with Vicente Sagrestano in a bout aimed at collecting toys for poor children.
[18] He and former rival Mario Martinez, against whom he earned his first world championship in 1984, faced each other again on 3 July 2015, in an event to benefit Chavez's two drug rehabilitation clinics.
[19] On 31 December 2018, boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa faced each other in an exhibition boxing match at Rizin 14 Saitama.