Southpaw advantage?

[restless_438]

Its scientifically proven. Left handers have an advantage.

You're damn right we do.

btw, Allen Iverson looks like he could use a shower. Looking a 'tad' nappy.

[druth]

Being a southpaw, I see a distinct difference in fighting as one as opposed to orthodox. Orthodox fighters aren’t used to having someone’s lead foot close to (or on top of) their own, nor are the angles normal to them. Being southpaw, 90% of the fighters you face are orthodox, so we become accustomed to it and it’s “normal” for us.

Also, after many conversations I’ve had with other fighters who are orthodox, they have a hard time seeing straight lefts coming because of the angle. Most southpaws roll their right shoulder in a bit, which conceals your left coming down the pipe somewhat. It makes it hard to get used to a lead left when you’re getting hit by a right jab that you don’t normally see.

[.::EnRiQuE::.]

Winky Wright is an unusual fighter who is naturally right handed but keeps his dominant hand in front and fights southpaw.

DeLaHOya is kinda like dat...he is naturally left-handed, but he fights orthadox

[jabsRstiff]

Hgaler was natural right-hander....that would explain his awesome right jab....& how he hooked & uppercutted with it so beautifully.

[tjadl6386]

Most southpaw fighters fight orthodox fighters so they train mostly for orthodox ones. The angles can turn off an orthodox fighter because they rarely encounter having to fight a southpaw.

Cristian Mijares and Winky Wright are right handed fighters who use the southpaw stance.

Oscar De La Hoya and Miguel Cotto are left handed fighters who use the orthodox stance.

From what I remember, Pacquiao mentioned in an episode of De La Hoya - Pacquiao 24/7 that he was ambidextrous.

[lest26]

being a southpaw is an advantage for a very obvious reason, most people are right handed so the few south paws out there train against orthadox boxers but most orthadox boxers dont train against southpaw, plus the southpaw when learning has more to think about, when i first webt training it was a nightmare when going through routines i had to reverse the whole thing, very confusing but makes you think that bit more, when a south paw hits and moves to the right of an orthadox boxer its very hard for that right hander to cope with but very natural for the lefty because thats what they do in the gym and its likely there the only one in the gym doing it.