Quote Originally Posted by Youngblood View Post
There's a bundle of nerves just behind your ear, and why those sort of punches are tried to be kept from happening. But given how tight Barker's guard was up the middle, it is what you do...go around it.

But yea, it's a bad place to get hit.
Barker definately looked hurt and in some pain, I don't believe there was anything fake about it, when he tried to get up from the KD he fell back down, that's when the ref stopped the fight.