Purpose Of A Headbutt: TO DAMAGE AND WEAKEN YOUR OPPONENT

What Bernard Hopkins and the many other fighters who have publicly supported Floyd realize is this: TO BE DAMAGED BY A HEADBUTT PUTS YOU AT A DISADVANTAGE. Now, you might say, "but they took a point from Ortiz". So what? As Emanuel Steward said on the broadcast, "Ortiz wasn't coming here to win a decision." And sure enough, Ortiz was effectively down 4 rounds to 0. Many fighters have had headbutts change the course of a fight. Or had mouth-bleeds end a fight. Notable example? Corrales lost to Casamayor because of excessive bleeding in his mouth. Shane Mosley has said that he was disoriented by the headbutt in the first Forrest fight and that contributed to the KD. Shane was never hurt that badly again for the duration of his career. What if the Fight got stopped later because Floyd was bleeding excessively? What if Floyd was thrown off because he was swallowing his own blood (he would be)? What if Floyd became less aggressive because the punches hurt him more now? Floyd made the (correct) decision not to fight as a damaged fighter. Not to give Victor Ortiz an undeserved advantage. If Victor was confident or comfortable, why would he need illegal ways to damage and weaken his opponent? http://i1021.photobucket.com/albums/af339/GinoRos/ORTIZHEADBUTTSFLOYD.jpg