Would hard-knuckle motorcycle gloves work for fighting?

I train in MMA and am quite interested in the sport. While I'd never get into a street fight, I do like buying gear that would work in theory for self defense. Not long ago I bought some expensive Hatch Defender II sap gloves. They don't adequately protect my knuckles I find. I had looked into regular hard knuckle sap gloves before getting the Hatch gloves but read that they knuckle guard is often not correctly places thus doesn't offer proper protection and can be really uncomfortable upon impact.

So this got me thinking, what if I wore my Hatch gloves under some regular biker gloves. Then my steelshot in my Hatch gloves could absorb any impact the slightly misplaced hard knuckle gets, enabling me to punch whatever I want without hurting my fists at all. That's the theory anyway.

So I'm wondering, would gloves like these work?

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