After some clean up, the current *_gloves tags we have that don't implicate gloves yet are:

leather_gloves 1
lace_gloves 2
adjusting_gloves 15
fishnet_gloves 3
white_gloves 1003
black_gloves 130
torn_gloves 4
striped_gloves 214
paw_gloves 114
spiked_gloves 11
latex_gloves 147
boxing_gloves 224

Are boxing gloves really what most people searching for "gloves" would want in the results?

I would.

I agree with jjj14, I'm not sure if boxing gloves really fall in under what people are looking for when they type "gloves"

Done except for boxing.

sgcdonmai said:
I would.

Me, too. So, here's my late opinion:

+1 for boxing_gloves -> gloves

I agree with jjj14 that boxing_gloves aren't something I would want/expect to find when I search for gloves.

And technically boxing_gloves are mittens, which are kept separate from gloves, afaics.
Note: I'm not saying that boxing gloves should be implicated to mittens, certainly not. I just think that they are distinctive enough to be separated from these tags.