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Who is the greatest southpaw boxer of all time?

by YPB Team

Left-handed fighters make everyone uncomfortable, and these ones built careers on it.

  1. Tiger Flowers — ranked #11
    Tiger Flowers
    The first Black middleweight champion, who fought left-handed in the 1920s.
    1000pts
  2. Oleksandr Usyk — ranked #22
    Oleksandr Usyk
    Undisputed at cruiserweight and heavyweight from the left-handed stance.
    964pts
  3. Michael Moorer — ranked #33
    Michael Moorer
    The first left-handed heavyweight champion of the world.
    964pts
  4. Marlon Starling — ranked #44
    Marlon Starling
    Welterweight champion of the late 1980s and a classic counterpunching southpaw.
    964pts
  5. Manny Pacquiao — ranked #55
    Manny Pacquiao
    The southpaw who won titles in eight divisions and built each one on the straight left.
    886pts
  6. Antonio Tarver — ranked #66
    Antonio Tarver
    Southpaw light heavyweight who knocked out Roy Jones Jr. in two rounds.
    886pts
  7. Pernell Whitaker — ranked #77
    Pernell Whitaker
    Four-division champion whose southpaw angles made opponents look amateur.
    750pts
  8. Sergio Martinez — ranked #88
    Sergio Martinez
    Argentine southpaw who took the middleweight title at 35.
    750pts
  9. Andre Ward — ranked #99
    Andre Ward
    Switch-hitter who used the southpaw stance to break Kovalev's rhythm.
    750pts
  10. Marvin Hagler — ranked #1010
    Marvin Hagler
    Middleweight champion for seven years who switched stances at will.
    613pts
  11. Zab Judah — ranked #1111
    Zab Judah
    Fast-handed southpaw who unified the light welterweight titles.
    0pts
  12. Vasiliy Lomachenko — ranked #1212
    Vasiliy Lomachenko
    Two-time Olympic champion who turns southpaw footwork into geometry.
    0pts
  13. Guillermo Rigondeaux — ranked #1313
    Guillermo Rigondeaux
    Cuban southpaw whose technical defence was close to impenetrable.
    0pts

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Comments

Left-handed fighters get their own ranking, and it is the one Mayweather cannot enter: https://youpick.best/articles/mayweather-vs-pacquiao-ranked

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