How to Not Die Against a Southpaw?

Learn to adjust, I'm a southpaw myself

 

I kinda wish I was a southpaw though

 

My gym is all southpaw's So i deal with them a lot lol. I am one of like 2-3 orthodox fighters. Southpaws are weird cause they see a lot more of you than you see of them. Their stance makes them awkward at first, until you figure out how to work them.
One basic thing you HAVE to do is keep your lead foot on the outside. Since your orthodox that means keeping your left foot outside of his right. pretty basic but staying on the outside of that foot disables his right hand and he wont have much power behind his shots.
Another thing I do is keep a pretty high and tight guard. My trainer has trained me with a mayweather-ish style so that means to keep my left shoulder high and tight.
As for offense I drop bombs with my right hand to their body or head and sort of "follow" the shot. It's hard to explain but i'll make an attempt, after throwing your right hand, you'll head will be on the outside his body, once that happens you just take an extra step, pivot it and drop a left hook on him.

This is my Longest post yet to ESB... Pretty passionate about beating on southpaws . Any specific questions post em here and i'll see if i can help

 

I love the title hahaha.

And yeah I never sparred a southpaw so I couldn't tell.

 

i only fought one southpaw and i won.i only jabbad,whenever i hooked i just looked like a twat and right hand's were worse.
there were no southpaws in our BC and when i got to spar with southpaws from somewhere else i didn't fare very well.

 

I spar a southpaw multiple times a week, once you get used to the change in distance it becomes easier. If you want to land a jab in between, stick your leg between his, if you want to land it outside his right hand, put your foot outside his right foot. Move to your left to avoid his left hand, watch out for his right hook though. Let your right hand go more freely than you normally would.

Most of all it's experience though, it takes time to get used to.

 

:goodits definitely about where you plant your feet.
one of the southpaws who i was sparring with was a pro and i was jabbing him silly,but when i tried a right lead he hooked me to the body and air hissed out of my lungs like a popped football:dead

 

The straight right to the body is a southpaw killer, but watch out, the same is true for his straight left.

 

Their left hand is perfectly in position to hit you in the plexus or liver. Any punch to his liver will be smothered in my experience, because it's too close and his elbow will be in front of it. That's why I always target the plexus, jab upstairs around his right hand to pull the guard open a little and then blast a straight right downstairs.

 

this fella was exactly how i liked them apart from the leftie bit.
we were both light-welter but he was about 3 inches shorter and he was square on to try and cut the ring down on me.he had his body covered but there was plenty of head to hit
i was using all the ring (it was a small ring in a small gym) and think i just lost my concentration and he got me with that hook.i should have stuck to jabbing:good
i felt like a right mug after

 

Haha, Southpaw rules . I wish you recorded it ;p