Southpaw champions

Expug · Post by **Expug** » 17 Jan 2006, 12:29

The obvious-Hagler but who else? I know of a few others,Melio Bettina. Flash Elorde, Pac man, Billy Backus, Freddie Miller, Jackie Patterson,Vincente Saldivar.

witherspoon · Post by **witherspoon** » 17 Jan 2006, 12:39

Pernell 'Sweetpea' Whittaker, Micheal Moorer.

barry · Post by **barry** » 17 Jan 2006, 13:15

Al McCoy
Johnny Wilson
Tiger Flowers
Lou Brouillard
Young Corbett III
Marvin Johnson
Michael Nunn
Khaosai Galaxy
Cory Spinks
Zab Judah
Ayub Kalule
Reggie Johnson

zojo · Post by **zojo** » 17 Jan 2006, 13:23

What about natural lefties who fight as a righie: Joe Frazier and Oscar De La Hoya.

Borinken25 · Post by **Borinken25** » 17 Jan 2006, 14:14

Hector "Macho" Camacho

Expug · Post by **Expug** » 17 Jan 2006, 14:20

Man,...I forgot about alot of these guys. Oh well thats the beauty of the forums.

barry · Post by **barry** » 17 Jan 2006, 14:43

Moorer is a natural righty who fights lefty.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » 17 Jan 2006, 18:58

I think a category or list should be created in the wiki for this. Keep them coming!

JC · Post by JC » 17 Jan 2006, 19:01

Naseem Hamed was technically a Southpaw, though the strange switch hitting style he used made it hard to tell

barry · Post by **barry** » 17 Jan 2006, 19:02

Boxing Illustrated had a list of southpaw champions in an issue about ten years ago, but I cannot recall what issue it was.

Expug · Post by **Expug** » 17 Jan 2006, 23:18

few more,Sandro Lopopolo, Ben Villaflor, Fighting Harada,Paul Fujii.

Seamus · Post by **Seamus** » 17 Jan 2006, 23:24

Back in the 80's, I can't remember who it was, either Clancy, Ryan or Pacheco, but one of them said during a broadcast, that alot of Japanese fighters were converted southpaws because they took fencing in public school and it was almost natural to lead with there right afterwards. Never checked into it, but that story always stayed with me.

Grimm · Post by **Grimm** » 18 Jan 2006, 08:32

zojo, wrote:What about natural lefties who fight as a righie: Joe Frazier and Oscar De La Hoya.

Mike Tyson

sockdolager · Post by **sockdolager** » 18 Jan 2006, 09:29

Grimm wrote:
zojo, wrote:What about natural lefties who fight as a righie: Joe Frazier and Oscar De La Hoya.
Mike Tyson

often times early in his career he would fight as a southpaw in spurts. It helped his huge hooks to be more effective

zojo · Post by **zojo** » 21 Jan 2006, 12:08

David Tua, Micky Ward, and Michael Grant are all lefties who fight orthodox