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I read many years ago,that Greg Page,said that he was a converted southpaw.I recently read that DeLa Hoya was also a converted southpaw.I know that Boom Boom Mancini was.What other famous fighters were converted southpaws?How about what fighters were right-handed who converted to southpaw?I know there are a couple,but I can't remember who.
zuru

I think Henry cooper might of been a converted southpaw

Mike Tyson

Michael Moorer converted to southpaw!

ManonFire wrote:I think Henry cooper might of been a converted southpaw

I had dinner with Henry last week.

He is left handed but has always led with his left, so I suppose he isnt strictly converted.

zuru wrote:I read many years ago,that Greg Page,said that he was a converted southpaw.I recently read that DeLa Hoya was also a converted southpaw.I know that Boom Boom Mancini was.What other famous fighters were converted southpaws?How about what fighters were right-handed who converted to southpaw?I know there are a couple,but I can't remember who.
zuru

I remember Greg saying something about it in a Ring magazine interview back in '83 or '84, he was one of the few to switch very nicely.

I believe British middleweight KO artist Tony Sibson was also a converted southpaw.

Wasn't Joe Frazier a converted southpaw?

Kalule? (or was that the other way round?)

Pinklon Thomas.

Kalule should have fought orthodox, but his older brothers were southpaws, so Kalule thought that he had to fights like that, and it stuck.

Søren

Tony ( tiger ) Baltazar was a converted southpaw

I believe Virgil Hill was a converted southpaw.