Southpaw BOXING STYLE

[GrandpaBernard]

The more I watch boxing, the more I see patterns of a southpaw boxing style.

I used to think southpaw was just a stance but lefties share many characteristics. There seems to be an unpublished style among them.


-Majority of southpaws aren't inside fighters

-The 1-1-2 is the southpaw version of the classic 1-2

-Most don't land heavy punishing jabs. Their jabs control range and probe

-Straight left hand is the money shot. A southpaw whose right hook causes the most damage is rare

-Southpaws seldom hook with the lead hand downstairs


A boxing style formed due to the natural disadvantage and advantages of the southpaw stance.

Is there a southpaw boxing style or am I fooling myself?

[kilojay505]

Your pretty much on 4/5

[GrandpaBernard]

Your pretty much on 4/5

What part is off?

As a left hander it's frustrating seeing how southpaws don't have beautiful hooks unlike orthies.

Southpaw hooking doesn't dig in or get thrown with the same mean velocity.

[boliodogs]

I think southpaws have as much variety in their styles as right handers do. Why wouldn't they? Many southpaws are converted right handers like Andy Lee and Winky Wright. They are likely to have a strong right jab and right hook since they are really right handed.

[boliodogs]

Whitaker had a great right jab and Pacquiao developed a deadly right hook with Roach training him.I know that's only two boxers. I was an amateur southpaw and all things equal I tend to root for the southpaw to win. I have to admit I was much like the southpaws you described with a straight left being my best punch and my right jab and hook nothing special. Perhaps southpaws tend to be very left hand dominant so often have a strong left and a weak right. I don't know that for a fact. I am just guessing.

[Redd Foxx]

I know what you're saying. There is some sort of common thread in the movement and attack, though it's subtle. I train in both and I feel "it" when I'm in southpaw stance. I feel looser and find myself putting more weight in right hand attacks.

You don't see a whole lot of right hooks from orthodox fighters in general but you will see more of the counterpart (left hook) from southpaws. You'll see the jab being driven harder (sometimes with the fighter leaping in w/ the jab). They tend to have really good lateral movement.
Those are gross exaggerations but things that I tend to notice with southpaws. Pleanty of guys (like Rigo) don't follow suit.

[Real King Kong]

What part is off?

As a left hander it's frustrating seeing how southpaws don't have beautiful hooks unlike orthies.

Southpaw hooking doesn't dig in or get thrown with the same mean velocity.

The angle isn't that good for the right hook to the body...the left to the body is a nice shot for a southpaw.

[Boxingwizard]

I think southpaws have as much variety in their styles as right handers do. Why wouldn't they? Many southpaws are converted right handers like Andy Lee and Winky Wright. They are likely to have a strong right jab and right hook since they are really right handed.

Even right handed southpaws tend to be more left-hand dominant. Andy Lee and Chad Dawson are rare occasions. Chad Dawson has a strong right-jab and right-hook. Chad Dawson would throw double right-hooks, rare for a southpaw. The right-hook he threw to the body was brutal, and he was efficient with both hands.

[yngwie]

Sweat Pea and Nunn were great inside fighters with great jabs, Hagler jab was awesome, Manny hooks are great, Andy Lee right hook is serious, and every fighter is different, you can use the southpaw stance to take some tricks, but every fighter fights differently.
When Linares was fighting DeMarco they were saying that the fact that Linares was sparring with Manny wasn't necessarily good, because Manny was short southpaw and DeMarco a tall lanky southpaw.

[yngwie]

Sweat Pea and Nunn were great inside fighters with great jabs, Hagler jab was awesome, Manny hooks are great, Andy Lee right hook is serious, and every fighter is different, you can use the southpaw stance to take some tricks, but every fighter fights differently.
When Linares was fighting DeMarco they were saying that the fact that Linares was sparring with Manny wasn't necessarily good, because Manny was short southpaw and DeMarco a tall lanky southpaw.