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Innovating Since 1980

Throughout his entire life, Rival Founder and CEO, Russ Anber has been fascinated with designing, improving, and modifying all different types of sports equipment.
Whether it was his own baseball glove, goalie equipment or designing his own "home-made" boxing gym, Russ always looked for better ways to increase and optimize their performance. When he began selling boxing gear in the mid-1980s, to subsidize his amateur boxing team,
it didn’t take long for him to realize that few advancements had been made in the designs and innovations of boxing equipment over the years.

From early on in his career as a trainer, Russ was constantly thinking of new ways to improve the equipment he had! Throughout those years, his ideas began to pile up. By early 2000, he knew it was time to put these innovations and designs into place. In 2003, and at a cost of $50.00 to register the company, he officially founded Rival Boxing Gear with the promise to "reinvent the industry”. He also knew that this was going to be his chance to implement all the ideas he had come up with over his last 20 years in the game. Here are some of Russ’ designs, features, innovations, technologies, and inventions that Rival has introduced to the world as far back as 2003.