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Al McCoy, world champion in the 1910s, displaying southpaw stance with right hand and right foot to the fore Ruslan Chagaev in southpaw stance. In boxing and some other sports, a southpaw stance is a stance in which the boxer has the right hand and the right foot forward, leading with right jabs, and following with a left cross right hook.
It is a mirror image of the orthodox stance. A southpaw fighter stands with their right foot forward, with their left side further from the opponent. Some famous boxers who use the southpaw stance are Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Victor Ortiz, Sultan Ibragimov, Naseem Hamed, Joe Calzaghe, Manny Pacquiao, and Lucian Bute.
This is a list of southpaw stance boxers. Southpaw is a boxing term that designates the stance where the boxer has his right hand and right foot forward, leading with right jabs, and following with a left cross right hook. Southpaw is the normal stance for a left-handed boxer.
Jones starts southpaw, while Miocic is orthodox. Jones lands a cross, but Miocic connects with a counter hook. “Stipe” is the chant in MSG. Hard low kick by Jones. Miocic just misses with a cross.
The lead arm (left for an orthodox fighter and right for a southpaw) is placed across the torso usually somewhere in between the belly button and chest and the lead hand rests on the opposite side of the fighter's torso. The back hand is placed on the side of the face (right side for orthodox fighters and left side for southpaws).
Joshua dominated the bout, knocking down Ngannou, who switched to southpaw, with a straight right hand (a punch often dubbed as the 'southpaw killer') down the pipe in the 1st round. Ngannou beat the count and reverted to orthodox but was floored again in the 2nd.
A fight between Julio César Chávez and Héctor Camacho, two of the top fighters in the super lightweight division, had been discussed as early as 1989, though problems within Camacho's management team prevented HBO, who then held Chávez's television rights, from making the fight with then-HBO sports head Seth Abraham stating "While I'd love to do the fight, I'm not sure who to make the deal ...
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