What’s the point of fighting from a southpaw stance when you’re right-handed, and vice versa?

Same reason (IMO) Benitez fought from an orthodox stance despite being left handed… because the boss told you so lol.

 

Lefties were always noted to be tricky, so converting into one definitely opened up new possibilities. Some martial arts would outright always put your stronger hand in front like the converted southpaw stance does.

I think the better question is why would some southpaw fight orthodox (DLH), and I think that Journeyman is right. You fight the way you train and sometimes how you train is up to the man who trains you.

 

And I think 'didn't know any other stance' is a strong word. As far as I'm aware footage of some great southpaws was available. It was just a matter of school of though of the yesteryear.

 

If you are doing boxing properly, the lead hand does most of the work offensively. The rear hand is the 'power' hand but the most vital responsibility of that hand is defensive.
If you are naturally right handed and you fight orthodox, your gift is that you develop your left hand and make it an effective weapon. To this day the only thing that I can do competently- very well, in fact- with my left hand is punch. In this day and age many young fighters that come to the gyms take the easy route and become southpaws while being right handed because they think it will be easier. The opposite of that is the left handed fighter that thinks that fighting that way will make boxing easy because all he needs to do is step to his right and throw his left so that he never works on his right hand.

 

Because only being able to have power in one hand is a myth, all their opponents had to worry about their non power hand as well