Fighters with left uppercuts like Janibek

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  1. MarkusFlorez99

    MarkusFlorez99 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    What fighters do you think best utilize the left uppercut from southpaw ?

    Janibek is my favorite, his left uppercut is monstrous
     
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    MidniteProwler Fab 4. Mayor of Aussie Boxing Full Member

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    Yep it's a quality punch from Janibek I saw him drill Mikilovic with it ringside at the Star in Sydney. You could really hear the thud on Janibek's punches from close up and when he dropped him Mikilovic hit the canvas pretty hard.
     
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    dmt Hardest hitting hw ever Full Member

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    Janibek is the best at it. I think Opetaia throws a good left uppercut though Opetaia uses his right uppercut more often.

    Marvin Johnson, former light-heavyweight champ, is a good example.

    There haven't been many great southpaws historically. So not many great southpaw left uppercuts.
     
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    Gervonta Davis, the waste of talent, has a very good uppercut...especially to the body.
     
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    zab judah, terence crawford, murodjon akhmadaliev. when crawford has people hurt he switches to southpaw and he throws big right hooks and left uppercuts
     
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    Macedoine62 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Naoya Inoue, Kosei Tanaka, Hiroki Ioka, Jean-Baptiste Mendy, Alexander Povetkin, Kostya Tszyu, Juan Manuel Marquez, Canelo.

    This is a list who notably used the left uppercuts in some championship fights.
     
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    dmt Hardest hitting hw ever Full Member

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    He was asking about southpaw fighters.
     
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    Zab put a nice one on my hero Kostya in the first round before what happened, happened.
     
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    Oh okay thanks for the correction I was not concentrated...

    Then Manny Pacquiao, Marvin Hagler when he change his guard, Errol Spence jr...
     
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