Soccer players should NEVER be compared to boxers. Boxers don't fall down and act hurt when they stub a toe. They don't go to the corner in between rounds and drink Capri-Sun and eat orange wedges. And the commentators aren't always right. Some of them are rarely right.
BULL****. Purposely using your head is WORSE than using illegal hand wraps. A full-on hit from a skull is enough to permanently disable a man. I watched that fight and those headbuts WERE ****ING INTENTIONAL.
Man shut the **** up. Your bias is clear, no one really thinks a headbutt is as bad as loaded wraps. Compare somone headbutting you to somone using brass knuckles. :-(
Headbutting causes bad damage, look at Kessler's face. A boxer is responsible of his head. When you're always charging head first, you have a good chance to headbutt. The ref should have warned Ward, that's all. He would have paid attention and still win the fight. Now, he has a bad reputation. Not anybody but himself fault. He had Kessler in his little pocket though, everybody acknowledges that.
Brass knuckles would do more damage per say, but id pick a professional with loaded gloves over a chump with brass knuckles.
I was not a fan before but I thought he was very impressive almost Hopkins like in the way he controlled the fight. I will be interested to see how he progresses from here. The Taylor fight, although he is done, should be competitive for the first half of the fight. It will be good to see how he handles a fighter who has better movement ans boxing skills.