New era of fighters perfecting the style of using the dominant hand as their lead hand

The thing that indicates weather a guy can succeed with this is his ability to develop the off hand as well. If you can use that rear hand straight with your non-dominant hand (feels unbelieveably awkward to throw for most) and get accustomed to the requisite footwork of using the opposite style it can be deadly. Having all that power and dexterity with your closest/ most powerful weapon is a godsend but you need to develop that off hand to keep opponents from just circling away from the lead hook and jab.

 

De LA hoya also trained to be Orthodox, I don't think it was an advantage for hagler, its part of the reason he lost to Leonard.

 

Winky comes to mind. He had such a dominant right jab because of it.

 

How old are you mark?

 

I'm confused, so hagler was a natural Orthodox but fought southpaw?
He seems like a natural southpaw to me n not as sharp when fighting Orthodox.

 

Max Schmeling was an orthodox fighter, but in some ways he behaved like a southpaw, leading and probing with his overhand right, and using it to set up his left hook.

 

I was assuming he was southpaw n u were referring to when turned Orthodox he was leading with his stronger hand n why I was confused.
Any idea when he made that change, from the start or as a amateur?

 

I read an article where Angelo Dundee said that they found out that Hagler was right handed and that he didn't have as much power in his left hand. He said that was how SRL beat him. When SRL fought him they had SRL move to his right and Hagler's left regardless of which stance Hagler was using. That probably confused Hagler as southpaws are used to orthodox fighters moving away from the southpaw's left hand. Most trainers of orthodox fighters have them try to get their left foot outside of the southpaw's right foot, Hagler was probably used to that, and had probably been working with his sparring partners doing that, then SRL did the opposite...