SOUTHPAWS

Southpaws are commonly known to eat the canvass too. The guy in your pic is gonna definitely eat some, Pacquiao style, against Crawford.

 

now, willie, i thought you were better versed in the pugilistic arts. crawford bout to get wrecked.

 

I have actually been thinking the same thing for about a year. It's pretty amazing how many big and semi-big fights have a righty-lefty match up. This, of course, leads to the inevitable announcer comment that the boxer who gets his lead fight outside the other's has the advantage.

 

Spence going to TKO Crawford.

 

They used to make lefty's write and basically do everything right handed to conform to the majority.

 

From current fighters Crawford, Lomachenko and Shakur Stevenson are right-handed but actually fight as southpaws. Donaire is left-handed but uses an orthodox guard. And many don't know that Mike Tyson is a lefty that always boxed orthodox.

 

For some reason the southpaw style never appealed to me.

 

Me neither, they seem to be less fluid than orthodox fighters, the stance lends itself to awkwardness and not a little treading on the others toes ! also you could name the ATG southpaws on one hand, the above notwithstanding Maurice Hope was one of the best it gets of the genre, saw and spoke to him at a LEBA function a few years ago, a nice unassuming man, soft in voice and manner.
stay safe guys.

 

Just the aesthetics of it. A right hook is not as cool as a left hook to me. Hard to explain.

 

You shut your w***e mouth! (Joking, but I love southpaws)