John Golomb, one of the greatest boxing equipment designers of our time and a leading expert in sporting goods restoration. John brings over 50 years of manufacturing, engineering, restoration, and design experience to every glove he touches. He learned the craft from his father Dan, who learned from his father Jack—a direct line of expertise spanning over a century.

In 1910, Jack Golomb and his brother Morris Golomb co-founded Everlast Sporting Goods Manufacturing Co. in their father Abraham's shop on the Bowery on New York's Lower East Side. Jack was the technical craftsman—the glove maker who developed many of the construction techniques that made Everlast "the Choice of Champions." Dan Golomb, Jack's son, expanded and nurtured the company, and John Golomb served as Product Designer, Industrial Engineer, and Consultant at Everlast from the 1970s until its closing in the Bronx in 2003. While the Golomb family eventually sold their stake in Everlast, the knowledge and techniques have been passed down through generations. Today, we're building the GOLOMB brand with the same commitment to quality craftsmanship that Jack brought to those early championship gloves—preserving proven techniques by putting them back into service.

Jack Golomb (Jacob J. Golomb, 1892-1951) co-founded Everlast Boxing Equipment in 1910 and transformed it into "the Choice of Champions." Jack was a marketing visionary, designer and craftsman who pioneered safety innovations in boxing—developing protective headgear, the Odontoguard mouthpiece, and working directly with fighters to perfect their equipment. Many of his safety innovations, like the mouthguard, informed protective equipment design across multiple sports and are still in use today. He worked with legendary figures like promoter Tex Rickard, supplying Madison Square Garden as its boxing equipment provider, and backed fighter Jack Dempsey on credit when he was an unknown, customizing gear that helped Dempsey become heavyweight champion of the world.

Jack created the iconic Everlast label placement on boxing trunks and gloves—solving a safety problem while creating the most visible advertising in sports. He published the Everlast Boxing Record starting in 1922, establishing himself as an authority on the sport. His genius was understanding that if the greatest fighters trusted Everlast, everyone else would too. From bare-knuckle days to the Golden Age of Boxing, Jack Golomb's innovations in equipment design, branding, and athlete partnerships set the standard for boxing equipment worldwide. That legacy of quality craftsmanship and fighter-first innovation continues through generations at GOLOMB today.

We wanted to bring back the quality and craftsmanship that made Jack Golomb's work legendary. Throughout the twentieth century, the Golomb family made the finest boxing equipment in the world. Modern boxing gloves are mass-produced overseas with shortcuts and cheap materials. We saw fighters and collectors looking for what used to exist—gloves built to last, custom-fit, made by hand. So we started making them the old way, in New York, one pair at a time. Not to recreate the past, but to keep proven methods in service. It's what Jack would have done.

New York. Every custom boxing glove, every restoration, every skived lace—all done in our New York workshop.

We're continuing the tradition Jack Golomb started in 1910—not for sentiment's sake, but because these techniques work, this quality matters, and good equipment deserves great care.

No. The Golomb family sold their stake in Everlast decades ago, and the company was eventually sold to corporate ownership. Today's Everlast is a completely different company with no connection to the family. We honor the legacy Jack built, but we're focused on building the GOLOMB brand based on his original principles: American-made craftsmanship, quality materials, and gloves built to last generations. Legacy lives on through practice.

Because it helps you recognize quality and understand what you're paying for. When you know how equipment is made—the materials chosen, the construction methods, the innovations that solved real problems—you can tell the difference between something built to last and something built to sell.

The Golombs pioneered safety equipment, developed techniques that became industry standards, and worked directly with the people using his products to make them better. That approach—listening, testing, refining—produced equipment people could trust and repair instead of replace.

Understanding craft means you can make informed decisions: which laces will actually hold up, why certain tools matter, whether a glove is worth restoring. It's also about values—sustainability over disposability, repair over replacement, quality materials over shortcuts. Some customers care about keeping good equipment in service longer. Others appreciate American-made craftsmanship or want to learn skills that give them more control over their gear.

If those things matter to you, understanding craft explains why we work the way we do.