All time great Orthodox fighters beating elusive counter punching Southpaws

James Toney beating Michael Nunn, although I'm not sure I would call him a counter puncher. He was definitely elusive and was a southpaw.

 

Mccallum's win over Graham is probably a even better example.

 

Harry Greb vs Tiger Flowers :smoke
Jose Luis Castillo Upsetting Stevie Johnston (Great fight)
Delahoya beating Sweet Pea Whitaker
Rafael Marquez vs Tim Austin
Mickey Walker vs Tiger Flowers
George Foreman vs Michael Moorer (?)
Julio Cesar Chavez vs Hector Camacho
Johnny Tapia vs Paulie Ayala (Johnny keeps it close but they are great fights regardless)

 

Benny Leonard - Lew Tendler? I've only seen very limited footage of Tendler

 

Kostya Tszyu beating Zab Judah and making him do the chicken dance.

 

Hamed v Barrera?

 

Definitely. It's "dry Mexican salty veteran" versus "slick elusive southpaw" and it's a textbook case of how to dismantle a very unorthodox opponent. I think that the total superiority of Barrera is overstated and I even gave Hamed 3/4 rounds, but Barrera showed than the textbook can beat the stylistic innovator if followed to the letter and with a bit of clever application.

 

ugly fight, but Hopkins vs Winky Wright.

 

Can I get a half point for SR Leonard-Hagler?

 

here's an over 30 min version of the first leonard-tendler fight
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASRKcEJYy3I[/ame]

 

just want to point out that both decisions here vs flowers were very disputed.

roy jones defeated 7 southpaws in an 8 fight stretch in his time as light heavy champ. i don't think i'd categorize all of them as elusive and counter punching but some of them like harding, reggie johnson and del valle were decent fighters when roy fought them.

 

Well if we are including non atg's then Mares vs Darchinyan. Vic is a good counter puncher and was certainly playing that role in their fight.