his shoulder glancing the bottom of the earhole of the helmet hardly equates to touching his head. "hardly" is commonly used to completely negate the assertion of something, not what you are attempting to claim it means, that he "barely" touched his head and have somehow contradicted myself. nice try, though.
Lets not forget that dude is practically a very tall midget. Hitting him high is bound to happen no matter what. Although when a Jet nails him straight in the midsection, that gets called too.