{"id":551796,"date":"2026-03-21T19:33:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/551796\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T19:33:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:33:53","slug":"the-emergence-of-southpaws-and-other-possible-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/551796\/","title":{"rendered":"The emergence of southpaws and other possible trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\">I hope you\u2019re doing great and your family are too. First I want to ask you why is it that most southpaws are hardly beaten or they\u2019re good, or the best boxers. Some are fighting like orthodox boxers in a southpaw stance \u2013 for example, Shakur was born a right-handed fighter, Crawford, Boots. Southpaws that have been hard to beat include Crawford, Shakur, Usyk, Lomachenko, Gervonta Davis, Boots, Billy Joe, Pacquaio, Spence, and Janibek, even though he has since tested positive, Jai Opetaia, Abdullah Mason. How are southpaws conditioned \u2013 do they benefit from training with a lot of orthodox fighters? Have there been a lot of southpaws that were not good boxers? On this one can I differ from you for once \u2013 in my opinion I don\u2019t see Usyk not fighting Kabayel a duck \u2013 ever since Usyk moved up to heavyweight he has never ducked any smoke. Like every other boxer he deserve to have two-to-three fights that aren\u2019t competitive, or where he gets to choose the opponent. Crawford didn\u2019t fight Boots because to him it didn\u2019t make sense and that was fair. Can Usyk also get some rest? I really like Bud, by the way, and Usyk \u2013 they are very humble and down-to-earth guys. Usyk deserves this \u2013 he earned it the hard way. Let\u2019s have Kabayel fight legit guys like Anthony Joshua, Daniel Dubois or Tyson Fury \u2013 then Usyk after any of those guys. He hasn\u2019t been his mandatory for long, like how David Benavidez was to Canelo Alvarez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I hope you\u2019re doing great and your family are too. First I want to ask you why is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,710,49,48,129461,82,112956],"class_list":["post-551796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxingscene","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daily-bread-mailbag","tag-sports","tag-stephen-edwards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}