Bert Sugar: "Pacquiao is the Greatest Left-Handed of All-Time."

**Titing Kabayo** · 11-19-2009, 07:46 AM

Originally posted by Zuma

"Manny Pacquiao is the Greatest Left Handed Boxer of All-Time."
- Bert Sugar, Boxing Historian

Video plus article.

Pacquiao punches his way into the history books

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/columns/story?columnist=rafael_dan&id=4656198

Manny Pacquiao rewrote history by nabbing a seventh world title in a seventh weight class and stopping Miguel Cotto in 12 rounds on Saturday.

**denboy** · 11-19-2009, 07:47 AM

Pacquiao fights southpaw but if you see him signing autographs he writes with his right hand, aside from that I think Bert is spot on.

Check out this video

**Doctor_Tenma** · 11-19-2009, 07:48 AM

Pernell Whitaker > Pacquiao.

**Zuma** · 11-19-2009, 07:49 AM

Originally posted by denboy

Pacquiao fights southpaw but if you see him signing autographs he writes with his right hand, aside from that I think Bert is spot on.

Did you know that Manny Pacquiao is ambidextrous?

During an interview, Mario Lopez noticed Manny Pacquiao shooting darts with his right hands. Mario asked him about it. Manny said he's ambidextrous, afterwards shooting darts with his left hands. Pacquiao plays basketball, billiards, and flipping butterfly knife, equally adept in using either hands.

Ambidexterity is the state of being equally adept in the use of both right and left. Although people that are born ambidextrous are extremely rare, they may still gravitate towards performing certain types of tasks with a specific hand.

Jack Dempsey of course is one of the most famous ambidextrous boxers. Jim Lampley, as well as some writers, was right to compare Pacquaio to Dempsey.

I've seen Dempsey moves used by Pacquiao in reverse. The double shift southpaw stance of right jab, followed by a long straight left, with his left leg following, which makes it seem like he extended himself too far, that is like he's out of position. However, this is actually a switch to an orthodox position, with another straight right following up very fast, so fast indeed that it looks like a blur to the naked eye.

Source: Manny Pacquiao is Ambidextrous, a Boxer with Inborn Both-Handedness Talent

**krispy kreme** · 11-19-2009, 07:50 AM

Originally posted by Dominicano Soy!

Pernell Whitaker > Pacquiao.

I agree, Whitaker is the first person to cross my mind. But Pacquiao is still incredible.

**TRAVI$** · 11-19-2009, 07:52 AM

No disrespect to Pac, but Sugar is just obsessed with him.

**Cyse** · 11-19-2009, 07:53 AM

Stfu bert!!

Just because u wear the same straw hat and always have a cigar in ur mouth that's never lit doesn't make you a boxing expert!!

**hugh grant** · 11-19-2009, 07:57 AM

Did henry armstrong pulverise all his opponents like Pac did though, and be so dominant in the fights he was not supposed to win?

**Titing Kabayo** · 11-19-2009, 07:57 AM

Pacquiao turned ambidextrous since he used steroids..

Well, there's really a lot of things about Pacquiao that are hard to explain..

Bert Sugar: "Pacquiao is the Greatest Left-Handed of All-Time."