The brilliance of Southpaws

[ELPacman]

Pacquaio, Usyk, Lomachenko. They're not entirely unique in that you can't find sparring partners that are lefties. Though what makes these lefties so damn good?

[SouthpawRight]

left handed myself who trained in the southpaw stance

as a FAN I prefer watching orthies fight

on average orthies land the jab and lead hook more. boxing's two signature punches

[SouthpawRight]

good southpaws manipulate space and time

southpaw stance goes away on the inside as the fighters square up

[SouthpawRight]

manny is a genetic freak and physical phenomenon. A special guy I don't think the phillipines will ever have another fighter as good as manny

Pernell and manny are the two most raw talented lefties

[SouthpawRight]

you didn't mention TBud who southpaw 80% of the time. I rank him highly on the all time list

1. Sugar Robinson
2. Harry
3. Henry
4. Sam
5. Ezzard
6. Willie
7. Muhammad
8. Roberto
9. Sugar Leonard
10. Floyd
11. Benny Leonard
12. Pernell
13. Joe
14. manny
15. Jimmy
16. Mickey
17. Archie
18. Carlos
19. Marvin
20. Barney
21. Tony
22. Julio
23. Rocky
24. Larry
25. Gene
26. Jack
27. TBud

Left handed people are only 10% of the population yet on my short all time list southpaws are 15% of the list!

[TheProudLunatic]

A clash of styles more than brilliance.
Pac, even in his prime, pretty much had the same movement
Bob left, bob right, launch a straight right.
Rinse/repeat

Lefties are rare, having 2 of them fighting each other even more so.

[SouthpawRight]

A clash of styles more than brilliance.
Pac, even in his prime, pretty much had the same movement
Bob left, bob right, launch a straight right.
Rinse/repeat

Lefties are rare, having 2 of them fighting each other even more so.

but are Usyk pre-slips inspired in part by manny's pre-slips

[TheProudLunatic]

but are Usyk pre-slips inspired in part by manny's pre-slips

Lefty vs lefty and it's less impressive.
Lefty vs Righty and you have feet being stepped on and a bunch of pawing with the jabs

Movement is movement
Punch selection and their angles is where things get.....different

[Haka]

As mentioned a big part of it is for a southpaw bread and butter to face an orthodox while in reverse it is not the case.

[ELPacman]

you didn't mention TBud who southpaw 80% of the time. I rank him highly on the all time list

1. Sugar Robinson
2. Harry
3. Henry
4. Sam
5. Ezzard
6. Willie
7. Muhammad
8. Roberto
9. Sugar Leonard
10. Floyd
11. Benny Leonard
12. Pernell
13. Joe
14. manny
15. Jimmy
16. Mickey
17. Archie
18. Carlos
19. Marvin
20. Barney
21. Tony
22. Julio
23. Rocky
24. Larry
25. Gene
26. Jack
27. TBud

Left handed people are only 10% of the population yet on my short all time list southpaws are 15% of the list!

Crawford does really well lefty, but he's a switch hitter so I don't count him. I was thinking lefty only guys.