Headgear doesn't help when a guy gets hit right on the chin with 3 power shots in rapid succession, especially by an opponent over 200 pounds.

That is the right cross in action.
A right cross and straight right are not the same though people use the terms interchangeably these days.

Straight Right by definition is the right hand (in orthodox stance) thrown in a straight line at the target. Usually set up by the jab for the old classic 1-2 combination.

The Right Cross is a COUNTER-PUNCH where you slip the opponent's incoming jab while simultaneously throwing your right hand over his jab, literally CROSSING his left arm with your right arm.

Requires perfect timing, speed, coordination, and reflexes because you are hitting on the slip, and it takes nerve too because you just may eat a Straight Right coming behind that incoming jab if you're not fast enough in executing your slip-and-counter ie the Right Cross.

The Right Cross is much more difficult to execute than a simple jab and Straight Right combination.



Vitali right-crosses Lennox Lewis.

^ Funny, I was gonna say Deontay Wilder has to work on properly executing his jab, and there's a video going around of Lennox Lewis showing Wilder a few things about the jab, but even Lennox got caught with the right-cross, but not knocked over by it.