Right Handed Southpaws

I'd circle to the right handed southpaw's left. Guys who aren't fighting out of their natural stance have the most weak sauce straights and crosses.

 

You could counter their left with your right.

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It takes some good footwork. Ortiz had his lead foot on the outside there, so Mayweather stepped to his right to get avoid the trajectory of the left and come over the top with his own cross.

roach has mentioned this maneuver before too. emmanuel was supposed to move his feet to set himself into position to counter Juan's right with his own left, but he failed to do it.

 

yep, the str8 is so reliant on the force of pushing off with your rear foot to turn them hips into the punch. There's not as much force to rocket off of for a converty since they're pushing off with the weaker leg. Chances are if you're left handed, you're also left footed and vice-versa. The majority of converties don't ever develop good straights.

Converties have ghetto balance to top it all off.

Is your friend Ortiz?

 

Southpaw myself but if the shoe was on the other foot, I'd circle towards the left as per, but I'd keep my hands higher and my jab working constantly, your offence opens up as standard and hopefully you occupy their right hand (power hand) by pumping your left jab. That would be important too, don't flick the jab, but pump it.

 

It explains quite a bit now that you mentioned how people are supposed to jump off with their weaker leg. If you look at how all the converted guys fight: Cotto(e), Ortiz, Oscar, etc, they all have this annoying little bounce in their step. Your rear leg is your base in boxing, and these guys end up constantly jumping with their weaker leg being the foundation. This could be why Cotto(e) is known for over committing to his jab, he just jumps into that *****, see the Zab Judah fight. Miguel looked like a flying pig in his most recent fight.

I heard that Winky is also a converty. He has an ATG southpaw jab and awkward footwork. It looks like he's trying to shake his AZZ each time he moves.

Even though fighting southpaw gives people the advantage of using awkward angles you still see more lefties going righty than righties going lefty. I'd much rather be a righty in the southpaw stance than the opposite, but we live in a right hander's world.

 

Marvin Hagler was a right-hander who fought southpaw. His left was actually good though. He was a strong puncher in either stance. SRL said he was more wary of Hagler's right when they fought though.

I assume most would be more wary of the stronger hand of the opponent, regardless of what stance they fight out of.

 

im a pressure fighter i always look for the KO

 

When you're at athletic as that, you can break all the rules you want too :smoke

 

excellent point

 

Was whitaker a natural righty?