Why haven't we seen an all time great southpaw heavyweight? The closest anyone has come is Moorer. Perhaps i am forgetting someone but i believe all of the true ATG's were orthodox fighters. Is it simply because southpaws in general are exceedingly rate?
Rocky Balboa was a southpaw although he showed the ability to switch orthodox in the Creed rematch. Some say his opponents after winning the title were hand-picked, but I think he showed in Creed II, Lang II and the Drago fight that he could hang with the best.
Left-handed heavyweights have historically been taught to fight in the orthodox stance. Jim Corbett was left handed. So was Jim Jeffries. But they fought out of the right-handed stance.
Very true, a southpaw was like poison to fight managers, they kept their fighters away from them at any cost.
Balboa won rematches against Creed and Lang. Mason Dixon ducked him after escaping their first fight with a win and wanted no more.
I'm really interested in seeing more of Uysk at heavyweight. I have seen all of his Cruiserweight fights and he is one if the more impressive fighters that I have seen in a long while in the upper weight classes. Outside of him, Moorer, Byrd, Sanders, and Sultan were all very good but not great southpaw heavies.
