The 24 Greatest Southpaw Boxers of All Time

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

1. 1
   Tiger Flowers

   The first Black middleweight champion, who fought left-handed in the 1920s.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Oleksandr Usyk

   Undisputed at cruiserweight and heavyweight from the left-handed stance.
   964pts
3. 3
   Michael Moorer

   The first left-handed heavyweight champion of the world.
   964pts
4. 4
   Marlon Starling

   Welterweight champion of the late 1980s and a classic counterpunching southpaw.
   964pts
5. 5
   Manny Pacquiao

   The southpaw who won titles in eight divisions and built each one on the straight left.
   886pts
6. 6
   Antonio Tarver

   Southpaw light heavyweight who knocked out Roy Jones Jr. in two rounds.
   886pts
7. 7
   Pernell Whitaker

   Four-division champion whose southpaw angles made opponents look amateur.
   750pts
8. 8
   Sergio Martinez

   Argentine southpaw who took the middleweight title at 35.
   750pts
9. 9
   Marvin Hagler

   Middleweight champion for seven years who switched stances at will.
   613pts
10. 10
    Zab Judah

    Fast-handed southpaw who unified the light welterweight titles.
    0pts
11. 11
    Vasiliy Lomachenko

    Two-time Olympic champion who turns southpaw footwork into geometry.
    0pts
12. 12
    Guillermo Rigondeaux

    Cuban southpaw whose technical defence was close to impenetrable.
    0pts
13. 13
    Joe Calzaghe

    Welsh southpaw who retired unbeaten at 46-0 after more than ten years as super middleweight champion, with late wins over Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr.
14. 14
    Vicente Saldívar

    Mexican southpaw who won the undisputed featherweight title from Sugar Ramos in 1964 and defended it repeatedly, including against Howard Winstone.
15. 15
    Héctor Camacho

    Puerto Rico's flamboyant 'Macho' Camacho, whose blinding southpaw hand speed won world titles at super featherweight, lightweight and light welterweight.
16. 16
    Flash Elorde

    Filipino southpaw who held the world junior lightweight title from 1960 to 1967, one of the longest reigns in the division's history.
17. 17
    Young Corbett III

    Italian-born California southpaw who took the world welterweight title from Jackie Fields in 1933 and is enshrined in the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
18. 18
    Lew Tendler

    Philadelphia lightweight of the 1920s, often called the greatest southpaw never to win a world title after two famous fights with Benny Leonard.
19. 19
    Khaosai Galaxy

    Thai southpaw puncher who made 19 defences of the WBA super flyweight title between 1984 and 1991 and retired with one loss in 48 fights.
20. 20
    Errol Spence Jr.

    Texas southpaw who unified the IBF, WBC and WBA welterweight titles with wins over Shawn Porter, Danny Garcia and Yordenis Ugás.
21. 21
    Shakur Stevenson

    2016 Olympic silver medallist and defensive southpaw who won world titles at featherweight, super featherweight and lightweight.
22. 22
    Gervonta Davis

    Baltimore southpaw 'Tank' Davis, a knockout puncher who won world titles at super featherweight and lightweight and headlined some of the biggest pay-per-views of the 2020s.
23. 23
    Naseem Hamed

    'Prince' Naseem Hamed, a switch-hitter who fought mainly southpaw, unified featherweight titles in the late 1990s with acrobatic, unorthodox knockouts.
24. 24
    Daniel Zaragoza

    Mexican southpaw who won the WBC super bantamweight title three separate times and is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

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