IMO I would think boxers would protect themselves from punches with their forearms. Even without padding, the forearms can take quite a descent amount of damage before showing any type of bruising. The structure the forearm bones-radius and alna-with the forearm muscles make it virtually impossible to be broken with a straight on jab or straight punch.
So block with the forearms and counter, but most boxers usually end up messing up their wrists or break their knuckles. The handwraps usually eliminate the problem of wrist alignment, so their wrists usually move around in a "street" fight and sometimes they break the hand going for a punch in the jaw.
"Don't Focus on the Fingers or You will miss all the Heavenly Glory!"
Morbicid-"Maybe some moves are made just so that, if u somehow manage to pull them off in a fight, u get some serious bragging rights.
Many famous fighters have done this (roy jones jr, chuck norris, Morbicid, etc)"