Orthodox vs Southpaw

This is the best advice so far. I'm a southpaw myself and the tactics mentioned do work if executed well of course, although I would be tempted to try and stay close to the guy and make it a battle between his right and your left, a fencing match between lead hands is where his familiarity with righties comes into play.

Do you know what the guys record is greg?

 

Naw, you're a bit Schmeling (not sad at all, only astute).

Aww, Jesus!atsch (Now you HAVE to win, so I don't get censured by the other ESBers for misleading you.)

You'll probably review it before I do. I'm very curious as to what you'll have to say about it.

So it was a timely suggestion then. Cool. (Now I feel better.)

 

If all else fails, Antuofermo said, "They're only southpaws until you get 'em inside." (I don't think he was the first to say it, but he's the one I remember. Of course he was also stopped by southpaws Hope, Minter and Hagler, but he did give the latter two hell first time around.)

 

I hear that you've posted some videos of you boxing, could you post a link for me mate?

 

Excellent! (I'm relieved you approve. How long had it been since you'd last seen it?) My most vivid memory was of the way Geraldo did circle to his left, controlling the movement in the ring according to his own preference instead of Marv's.

When Ali defended against Mildenberger, I felt he was sort of "pandering" to the German southpaw by continually circling right, directly towards Karl's left to the body. Mildenberger really nailed him with that blow to the stomach only once that I saw (doubling him over), but he could have tried exploiting Muhammad's counterclockwise movement considerably more than he did. (Holmes circled right with speed in the first match with Shavers, and I dare say he looked better at it than Ali did against Mildenberger. SRL also circled right a great deal, normally an awkward way for an orthodox boxer to move.) Ten years later, Ali didn't express much concern about dealing with southpaw Dunn, but went straight to work with those right leads, and picked him apart.

My favorite one round shellacking of a world class southpaw was Cuevas/Backus. Pipino was best known for his deadly hook, but he put it in storage for this one, and winged lead rights to Billy's head from the opening bell, driving him back and clockwise. Cuevas is not thought of as a strategist, but he was a competent one within his slugging limitations, and this was never more evident than when he retired Backus in three minutes with a fractured eye socket.

 

Nothing better than watching the great man box.

Good luck GP.

 

Pisses me off when people don't like watching him. People need to sort their priorities out, degenerates.

You feeling good for tomorrow?

 

You are not going to find a better fighter to watch to learn the trade in this era.

A lot of fighters in this era have watched Jersey Joe Walcott. Ezzard Charles and Archie Moore to pick up tips.

Future fighters will likley watch Hopkins.