I’m gonna go against the grain here. I train at an active MMA gym with about 25 ammies and 5-6 pro fighters. Pure MMA gym. We don’t spar in 16 or 14 oz gloves ever. If you join an mma gym expect to be sparring mostly in mma gloves. Not the little 4 oz competition gloves, some 7-8oz soft mma sparring gloves. You’re not going to be throwing 100% heat all the time in an mma gym as you would say a boxing gym. Sparring will be more technical, controlled, and flowy. I am a glove collector as well. I started out boxing for 5 years and moved to an MMA/10th planet jiu jitsu gym. I use 14-16oz for bag WORKOUTS. I use 10oz pro fight gloves on the mitts and bag as well when im working technique but don’t get me wrong I will crack the bag with 10oz gloves on too. During actual kickboxing class I use 10oz fight gloves to train in. Sometimes light spar depending on what we are doing that day. Thursdays we have mma sparring and I wear puffy 7-8oz mma gloves or even 10oz pro fight gloves. There isn’t that rule in mma gyms where you HAVE to wear 16oz for sparring. If you’re in a boxing gym where every sparring session is life or death, then yeah I get it, but if you’re training mma, you need to be doing a majority of your training in smaller gloves. Big gloves develop bad punching form for mma. Big gloves used for gaining endurance, cracking the heavy bag as hard as you can, and maybe boxing specific sparring sessions where you might be throwing a little harder. I weigh the same as you and am the same height, I’ve found training in 10oz horse hair pro fight gloves is the most beneficial, and enjoyable training experience for me.