Patagonia Black Hole Duffel Bag vs Puma Evercat Candidate Duffel

The Patagonia Black Hole Duffel Bag, 70L makes for an outstanding Gym Bag at $199. The Puma Evercat Candidate Duffel, 21", however, while overall a good product for its asking price, doesn't quite manage to stand out from its competition - there are better Gym Bags that can be found for around $25 available here.

Two highly trusted sources that perform well-thought-out in-depth testing consider the Patagonia Black Hole Duffel Bag, 70L to be a great product - it earned the "Ranked 1 out of 9" title from Wirecutter and "Ranked 2 out of 16" from OutdoorGearLab in their respective Gym Bag roundups, which is a good indication of it being a notable product.

Moving on to the Puma Evercat Candidate Duffel, 21": it was loved by divein.com and Good Housekeeping - two reliable sources that conduct their own in-depth testing. In fact, it was named "Best Womens Gym Bag" and "Best Gym Duffel Bag" in their respective roundups, which points to it being a product worthy of consideration.

We couldn't find any sources that tested both of these Gym Bags, so we only analyzed how they performed in reviews from different sites.

We first examined which sources rated each of these best and found that the Patagonia Black Hole Duffel Bag, 70L got its highest, 10, rating from OutdoorGearLab, while the Puma Evercat Candidate Duffel, 21" earned its best, 9.4, score from divein.com.