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Southpaw champions
Posted: 17 Jan 2006, 12:29
by Expug
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.
Posted: 17 Jan 2006, 12:39
by witherspoon
Pernell 'Sweetpea' Whittaker, Micheal Moorer.
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Posted: 17 Jan 2006, 13:15
by barry
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
Posted: 17 Jan 2006, 13:23
by zojo
What about natural lefties who fight as a righie: Joe Frazier and Oscar De La Hoya.
Posted: 17 Jan 2006, 14:14
by Borinken25
Hector "Macho" Camacho
Posted: 17 Jan 2006, 14:20
by Expug
Man,...I forgot about alot of these guys. Oh well thats the beauty of the forums.
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Posted: 17 Jan 2006, 14:43
by barry
Moorer is a natural righty who fights lefty.
Posted: 17 Jan 2006, 18:58
by Matt
I think a category or list should be created in the wiki for this. Keep them coming!
Posted: 17 Jan 2006, 19:01
by JC
Naseem Hamed was technically a Southpaw, though the strange switch hitting style he used made it hard to tell
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Posted: 17 Jan 2006, 19:02
by barry
Boxing Illustrated had a list of southpaw champions in an issue about ten years ago, but I cannot recall what issue it was.
Posted: 17 Jan 2006, 23:18
by Expug
few more,Sandro Lopopolo, Ben Villaflor, Fighting Harada,Paul Fujii.
Posted: 17 Jan 2006, 23:24
by Seamus
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.
Posted: 18 Jan 2006, 08:32
by Grimm
zojo, wrote:What about natural lefties who fight as a righie: Joe Frazier and Oscar De La Hoya.
Mike Tyson
Posted: 18 Jan 2006, 09:29
by sockdolager
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
Posted: 21 Jan 2006, 12:08
by zojo
David Tua, Micky Ward, and Michael Grant are all lefties who fight orthodox