Outboxing a Southpaw: Miguel Cotto's Footwork Clinic

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For a southpaw to be successful, angles are the key. Smart orthodox fighters have always understood that this works both ways.

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For a southpaw to be successful, angles are the key. Smart orthodox fighters have always understood that this works both ways.

A straight right will always be the best weapon but its the how. Its not like directing traffic. Southpaws dont all move alike and many have different power hands. Another thing is that Cotto is a converted southpaw which makes certain adaptation easier and especially with a guy that had no legs left. At that point the straight right would not necessarily be the best weapon but a mixture since the southpaw you are facing has limited movement. In addition Cotto never watched tape in his rise at 140 and beat Corley, Judah, and Quintana who are all southpaws so its not as if he had no idea how to fight one before Roach came along.