Boxing gloves
That interesting about the comparison’s with MMA gloves and Boxing gloves.
I’ve started using boxing gloves since about feb or so, and I’ve fallen in love with them 
I do Wing Chun, and of course we have much in the way of trapping etc.
I used to only use MMA style gloves (or related), however, what I have found with boxing gloves, is that I focus less on the small things at my wrist, and concentrate more on my body, and using all of my motions (arms, body, legs etc) to trap and pin and restrict my opponents movement.
On top of that, being hit with a boxing glove hurts less 
I find that nowadays, when doing drills, or light open hand sparring, I can move better, and utilise my whole body better than I did before, and the grabbing and pinning either (a) becomes better, or (b) becomes totally surpurfluous to my overall strategy.
Anyhoo - Just some thoughts I had obviously if you are going to do grappeling on the floor as well, you will need some sort of MMA style glove.
Dumb question - how you get chocked out (he get your back?), if he was wearing boxing gloves? or wasn’t he?