How to Get and Upgrade Tattered MMA Gloves in MW3 Zombies

The Season 2 Reloaded update for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has added an endgame rift activity into Zombies. The rift requires four items to unlock it, so here is how to get and upgrade the Tattered MMA Gloves.

How to Get Tattered MMA Gloves in MW3 Zombies

Players can get the Tattered MMA Gloves by completing an optional objective in the Countermeasures mission. The Act 4 mission is located in the northern section of the tier 3 red zone and is labeled on the map.

Once players spawn into the mission, a ship nearby to the left can be boarded. On this ship is a pedestal marked on the map above where my team is located. Activating the pedestal will spawn waves of zombies in an enclosed circle.

You and your team will need to kill zombies with melee within the circle to fill up the pedestal and complete it. A Reward Rift will spawn with the purple Tattered MMA Gloves.

How to Upgrade Tattered MMA Gloves in MW3 Zombies

The purple Tattered MMA Gloves can be upgraded to gold by visiting the building with the boxing ring located on the regular Zombies map. It is at the F8 coordinates on the map above.

Players must have the Tattered MMA Gloves in their inventory and activate the prompt inside the boxing ring. Jump out of the ring and go to the three punching bags hanging on the side. Punch each bag from right to left, which will cause the final bag to set on fire and spawn a zombie in the ring. 

Get back into the ring and kill the zombie with melee attacks to drop the gold MMA Gloves. The gold relic is one of four key items necessary to open the northern Dark Aether Rift.

For more on Modern Warfare 3, check out how to get the Soulrender melee weapon introduced in Season 2.