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This is what I was referring to. You better be protecting in other ways than just gloves, because gloves only guards do not help even in hard spars. I have seen Ward defending and I have seen other top boxers like Golovkin defending. These guys use their arms, ellbows, palms, shoulders and etc for blocking, but mostly pre-emptive ducks, slips and forcing such. I have not seen a single top boxers who goes full high guard and says "yes bitch hit my gloves" besides some troll Floyd moves when he wants to show off his defence.
Maybe top boxers, but there are some top kickboxers that use that high guard with punches glued to their heads as their main defence against punches, typically the Dutch style Kickboxers (Robin Van Roosmalen, Rico Verhoeven, Nieky Holzken, etc.). The main reason why is probably because you can't be ducking, slipping and weaving too much when there are kicks, knees and head grabbing involved.