Southpaw v southpaw

[ironalex]

What have been the best southpaw vs southpaw fights?

[TBear]

Not sure about greatest, but these come to mind when I think of two lefties.

Hagler-Hamsho
Whitaker-Julio C, Vazquez
Vazquez-Winky Weight
Harding-Tarver
Hamed-Kelly
Gainer-Norwood

[ironalex]

Not sure about greatest, but these come to mind when I think of two lefties.

Hagler-Hamsho
Whitaker-Julio C, Vazquez
Vazquez-Winky Weight
Harding-Tarver
Hamed-Kelly
Gainer-Norwood

Great picks... Johnson vs parlov and Martinez vs Williams were other great fights.

[Scott9945]

Not sure about greatest, but these come to mind when I think of two lefties.

Hagler-Hamsho
Whitaker-Julio C, Vazquez
Vazquez-Winky Weight
Harding-Tarver
Hamed-Kelly
Gainer-Norwood

I definitely wouldn't recommend Gainer-Norwood for entertainment value. That fight was a hot mess of mauling and fouls.

[ironalex]

I definitely wouldn't recommend Gainer-Norwood for entertainment value. That fight was a hot mess of mauling and fouls.

It's the only one from that list I haven't seen haha

[The Old LefHook]

All Gainer fights are terrible. He was the archetype runner. His style was predicated on pure running. Same guy, right? Used to be big buddies with RJJ?

I say Gainer is the most popular last name for American blacks, but I am going by memory and could be wrong.

[Thread Stealer]

Kelley-Gainer 1 was actually a good fight.

[GrandpaBernard]

In theory there should be no difference between lefty vs lefty and orthy vs orthy

But are there any differences observed in reality

[TBear]

Kelley-Gainer 1 was actually a good fight.

I thought it was a great fight. The rematch was bad though.

[Ray Corso]

.........."I say Gainer is the most popular last name for American blacks".....?

..........:wt:.......................................

I thought it was the popular name for "high board divers"!

Hamsho vs Hagler was very tough and brutal, a real fight.
Ray