# Who is the greatest southpaw boxer of all time?

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

*By YPB Team · Published September 20, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/who-is-the-greatest-southpaw-boxer-of-all-time*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

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

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