Quote Originally Posted by Walker Smith Jr.


Southies are interesting. I boggle my own mind sometimes. As for my favorite one, i cant really say. One reason, is i dont know/havent watched enough southpaw fighters. I actually go online just to find a list of names of southpaw fighters then go look them up on Youtube in hopes some of their fights are on there, So i can scope out their style and all. The second reason being, im honestly too intrigued with all the different styles. I find them all fascinating. From Winkys seemingly simplistic yet effective style of peekaboo defense, To whitakers slippery headmovement.

As far as studying videos of southpawed fighers, im way ahead of you there. I find alot of my free time i spend, sitting in front of my monitor, munching out and trying to find videos of acclaimed left handed fighters (or any fighter that caught my attention) So i can sit there for about an hour or two studying their footwork and little tricks in the ring (Whitaker was one guy who i really rewinded and replayed for). Sometimes i dont come out with much, due to my lack of understanding of the fight game. but sometimes my studying pays off and i learn a trick or two.

Currently i found a videos of Micheal Nunn, which i've never heard of prior (im not too boxing savvy on history and all), but i now find out he was voted a P4P fighter. Im watching his fight with James Toney right now. Its quite a lucky find because one of my sparring partners has Toneyesque defense and head movement. So im trying to see what i can pick up and apply myself.


p.s. Tabin you really needa recommend me some videos or southpaw fighters to do case studies on. I scour the net for new fighters to study. But I find it frustrating when i have to find and watch fighters that are brand new to me. It makes it harder to know what i should be watching for. I could find a extensive list of southpaws, but theyd all just be names to me. yknow what i mean?

like i recall seeing jiro watanbes name somewhere and trying to look him up on the tube. But i dont remember finding any of his videos.
Watching fights is one of the best things you can do. I know that Boxing seems pretty hard to understand at first because theres seemingly so much stuff going on at once but actually its pretty simple. When I was younger I used to watch fights and I had no idea what was happening or why this guy got knocked out or why another guy didn't. But if you watch enough boxing for a while it all makes sense. You'll need a couple things though

first thing you need to do is join a site where you can get all the fights you want! I suggest you go here: http://fights.worldboxingvideoarchive.com/ and sign up. Basically its kind of like file sharing with music but...with fights. I've gotten hundreds of fights from them and even some really rare ones. The site is completely free. Anyway read their FAQ section before you get started.

another thing you need is a good way watch your fights. I go on youtube and watch fights too and they got some good stuff on there. The only problem is the quality is terrible, you cant use slow motion to analyze things, and its hard to rewind to the specific location you want to.

I suggest you get this media player: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...er_Classic.htm media player classic. Its like any other media player but just real simple and without any extra stuff you don't really need. Whats unique to this player is that you can frame step forward in slow motion with the arrow keys on your keyboard. Or frame step backwards. Its just very easy to control the fight this way because when you see something you want to look closer at you can easily rewind in slow motion and then play it back in slow motion again over and over. Watching the fight in slow motion makes it very easy to see what the opponent's are doing.


Southpaws to study would be Marvin Hagler, Pernell Whitaker, Winky Wright, Joe Calzaghe, and like Grey said Jiro Wantabe. They all seem different but actually they do a lot of the same things. When you watch them you will begin to see the similarities. Its also a good idea to watch southpaw fighters who aren't so great. You can watch them and see what they're doing that causes them to get hit.

A fight I really really recommend in Vic Darchinyan vs. Nonito Donaire. Donaire (orthodox) knocked Vic (southpaw) out just brutally with the most simple counter in orthodox/southpaw. Vic was rushing in and trying to take off Donaire's head with a big looping and sometimes straight left. That was his only strategy. Actually thats all Vic could do. Donaire was using movement around the ring and forced Vic to *HAVE* to come forward to him with what else but a left hand. Well after implicitly forcing Vic to use his big left hand on him he blocks it on his right arm and counters with his left hook. Its a counter he had been throwing all night and hurting him with.

Ironic because this is a strategy the southpaw fighter is supposed to use! A moving southpaw that counters his orthodox opponent's straight right by blocking it on their left arm and rolling with it to counter with their right hook. Using Movement to create distance and thus through this taking away all of their opponent's punches except their right hand and then blocking and countering that. This is one of the most dominant strategies in Boxing. You'll see those southpaws I named doing this. You can find a bunch of their fights at that site I gave you a link to.


I was just watching the Nunn/Toney fight. I'm in round 5 or something. Nunn should use more movement. He is really mixing it up with Toney a little too much.