haven't you heard? cauliflower ears make you hard as nails.
wear head gear to prevent
when i had mine they got very sore and when i tried to bend them like you would bend an ear normally, they KILLED.
Soon thereafter they started to swell and became tender, to the point where it was hard to roll, so i went to the drug store and asked for the largest guage needle they had, it was like 20 cents, and got my training partner to suck all the crap out
it didn't really hurt, and they are normal now, if you don't catch it soon enough the stuff calcifies and becomes hard, so you can't drain anything out.