Duck and Cover

About the boxing gloves - Can you use the plated boxing gloves in the ring, or are they useless?

*Er, side note, I haven't actually boxed before there, so I don't know if they force you to use golves that the ring provides*

Anyway, if you use the barter button, the prices of the goods will be higher than if you use dialogue to initiate trade. This happened all the time in Fallout, and I am not sure why they did not fix this in Fallout 2. Maybe it is not a bug. Maybe the developers are trying to say, "If you want ...