Ranking the most skilled southpaws today: Usyk, Crawford, Bam, Shakur, Nakatani

like a boss · Oct 3, 2025

lion000000 said: ↑

I've seen every professional fight he's ever had. No matter how many times you say something it doesn't make it true. Crawford is not a southpaw. He fought MOST of his career orthodox. Southpaw is simply a tool depending on the matchup. He mostly uses southpaw when the other fight has a food jab. That's how he takes it away. He's won titles and undisputed in both orthodox and southpaw. He's knocked out people in both stances. Like i said. It's a tool for him.
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He is a predominantly - in fact very predominantly - a right foot forward fighter. That makes him a southpaw. Nice try though.

lion000000 · Oct 3, 2025

like a boss said: ↑

He is a predominantly - in fact very predominantly - a right foot forward fighter. That makes him a southpaw. Nice try though.
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Only in your mind. Ask the Crawford is he a southpaw. Check the stats and see what stance he has fought out of most of his career. I don't argue opinions.

like a boss · Oct 3, 2025

lion000000 said: ↑

Only in your mind. Ask the Crawford is he a southpaw. Check the stats and see what stance he has fought out of most of his career. I don't argue opinions.
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Watch a few of his fights. He is right foot forward nearly all the time. If you knew anything about boxing you would know that that's what southpaw is. But nice try, anyway.

like a boss · Oct 3, 2025

In boxing a southpaw stance is a stance in which the boxer has the right hand and the right foot forward, typically leading with right jabs. Like 'Bud' Crawford does most of the time and in most of his fights.

Joeywill · Oct 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM

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Usyk is having to use his skills to overcome huge physical advantages against much bigger opponents who are murderous punchers or hit very hard, especially given how power is magnified when you're fighting much or way smaller opponents

And he's doing it in their backyards on a deck stacked against him or on the road

He's playing Russian roulette with 2 bullets in the chamber and he's not running or ever stinking out the show, holding like an octopus or scared to engage even though there's a far higher degree of risk and danger for him than the others

All the others are very skilled too but they're fighting guys their size or who they're bigger than not much or way bigger than them and most are doing it at home exclusively

It's fair to say he is not in his prime and he has declined a lot with age and almost all the others are young and in their primes but is beating a much smaller Valdez, same size Herring, Zepeda and Dos Santos in your backyard/country even remotely comparable to what Usyk has been doing in his mid to late 30s?

I think Shakur is highly skilled, one of the most skilled in the sport, and an excellent boxer but let's not forget Bivol never received the respect for his defensive prowess like ''defensive master'' Shakur long has even though he literally gets hit less than anyone else in the sport and it's the same when it comes to Usyk, regarding not receiving enough credit and respect for his defensive prowess
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Great post but you gotta stop with that whole backyards thing it's really not that important

Besides Crawford fighting Canelo in Vegas is a case of someone being the away fighter fighting in someones backyard

CST80 · Oct 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM

1) Usyk, wins rounds against good pressure fighters who can cut off the ring.

2) Stevenson, struggles but wins rounds against good pressure fighters who cut the ring off relatively well.

3) Crawford, loses a lot of rounds against average pressure fighters, needs his power to bail him out sometimes.

4) Nakatani, struggles and rocked against pressure fighters who cut off the ring well, without power, he be would be toast.

5) Rodriguez, should've lost to Israel Gonzalez who isn't that great at cutting the ring off, over reliant on power. When he stops fighting old men, he's ****ed.

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