what way do you circle ring against southpaw?

Circle to the left.

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Being at a 45 degree angle outside of the southpaw's right is the "hot spot". It creates openings for your orthodox jab. "Check jabs" are great against aggressive southpaws for the 45 degree angle reason. In Morales-emmmanuel I, Tijuana kept turning him with the jab. Tijuana would shoot and pivot.

Most southpaws are jabless fighters since it's easier for them to land their left against the majority of their opponents, righties. The left hand ends up becoming the primary punch for lefties. Even a good southpaw with a right hook like emmanuel couldn't get off properly when Sour Shot Oldsley kept turning him to prevent emmanuel from using the left. The common southpaw combo is left hand + right hook, the left sets up the right.

 

judah goes the wrong way, so khan went the wrong way aswell

 

Khan was circling to the right because Judah circles the wrong way himself (for a southpaw). That's what Roach said anyway, and Lampley also mentioned it in the HBO commentary.

 

This guy beat me to it.

 

Always circle clockwise............. The backhand is in most cases the punch to avoid..

But against converted southpaws like for instance ..Michael Moorer, was a devistating puncher through his whole career with both hands (quite often his lead punch was jarring..) very quick too.......... Michael was very deceptive that way............ But in 99% of most southpaw cases ........... To your left (Clockwise)........

 

Zab was circling the "wrong way" to get away from Amir's jab and counter hook. Amir's right hand is nowhere was good as his left hand.

 

The rule is your left, but you can move anyway as long as you are jabbing and feinting. A good jabber can off set southpaws who tend to ignore jabs because many times they think they can slip a jab and walk you into their big left or right hook.

 

This.

If you can stay out the backside of his lead hand, then you are effectively out of his range unless he resets his feet...which is hard for him to do if you are moving.

 

You can circle either way. It's not a matter of avoiding a certain hand. For a southpaw it's just a matter of being in position for an angle, so usually you do that by moving left. But you can also move right and lure them to make it easier to achieve the angle to the left (quick step or hop).

 

You don't have to circle either way if the opponent refuses to throw punches.

 

Khan is a ****ing idiot. He did some many things wrong in that fight but Judah was too shot to take advantage of any of them. He put himself in position to get hit by Judah's left time and time again Judah just couldnt pull the trigger. My jaw dropped when I heard him say that he was circling away from Judah's left hand. That really tells you Khan is very smart in the ring and relies purely on his talent. Against a better fighter he's in trouble.