The old southpaw double attack, mirrored back against the southpaw.
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Milton never even made him go southpaw, and Milton turned everyone southpaw.
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And that is part of what is so interesting about this southpaw versus southpaw match up.
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The southpaw versus southpaw match up will give both men a lot more opportunity to play with their jab.
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As a southpaw, Nasukawa presents the usual problems of the southpaw double attack—a great left straight and left round kick.
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In our preview of the fight, I mentioned: And that is part of what is so interesting about this southpaw versus southpaw match up.
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This is a neat little technique because against a southpaw the right straight will always be the keystone punch—whether you are standing orthodox or southpaw.
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As soon as Shevchenko gets aggressive, look for the counter left hands and—probably more important in a southpaw versus southpaw engagement—counter jabs and hooks.
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Closed guard (southpaw vs southpaw) exchanges do not favor Machida because he drops his lead hand to his hip like a traditional karateka every time he punches.
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Vitor Belfort is another southpaw who, unlike those others, excels with the building blocks of southpaw striking excellence: the straight left and the left high and body kicks.
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Here Adesanya weaves from his southpaw stance to an orthodox one, cracks Brunson with a right straight, then switches again to land a long left hook from a southpaw stance.
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Another way in which Cruz throws his left high kick is the bump into a southpaw stance, getting into dominant southpaw position with his lead foot outside of his opponent's.
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Luis Ortiz, a southpaw, moved on Wilder and kept him turning in addition to using a good southpaw jab and threading the left hand down the center when he could.
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It might seem like a very limited way for a southpaw to fight, with just the left straight and the left round kick, but these are the classic southpaw double attack.
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He has performed it as a southpaw fighter against orthodox opponents and, when meeting a southpaw like Johny Hendricks, Thompson has taken up the orthodox stance to create the same opening.
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Stephen Thompson and Justin Scoggins will switch between orthodox and southpaw stance, going noticeably more side on when southpaw with the intention of lining up the side kick from their lead leg.
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In an orthodox versus southpaw engagement that is much tougher.
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The classic southpaw double attack, applied off the back foot.
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One point to note is that Brunson is a southpaw.
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SouthPaw MI PAC will endorse more candidates in the future.
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It is interesting that at the time of Leonard's popularity, fighting southpaw was still considered abhorrent, but that Leonard used the drop shift to get to a southpaw stance momentarily and continue his attack.
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He was also the first notable southpaw that Foreman had met.
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"I don't know when my career will end," the southpaw added.
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The southpaw has allowed one run over his past 12 innings.
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In the second round Rodriguez fought more from a southpaw stance.
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Taylor showed complete confusion with the handfighting of the southpaw, Ham.
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In terms of kicking though, Till's southpaw stance makes things interesting.
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When a southpaw meets another southpaw it is like a conventional orthodox versus orthodox match, it becomes all about the lead hand again and the easier opportunities for left straights down the pipe are no longer there.
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The southpaw had posted a 2286 ERA during his personal winning streak.
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It has also helped produce "Southpaw," a boxing movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
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One such was the 21-pound southpaw fighter Sorrasak in April 23.
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Scoggins changes from orthodox to southpaw to constantly keep his counterparts guessing.
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It is so much easier to do that from a southpaw vs.
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It was interesting to see dos Anjos back in with another southpaw.
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And even those shifts into southpaw out to the side have their problems.
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The rookie southpaw improved to 3-20143 against Calgary this season on Friday.
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He adds a second southpaw to the Los Angeles bullpen, joining Jose Alvarez.
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The 30-year-old southpaw has lost five of his past six decisions.
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The angles and distances are, of course, slightly different in a southpaw v.
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The southpaw dropped his opponent for the final time with a brutal uppercut.
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He's a southpaw like myself and he has the most unbelievable striking technique.
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Circling off and trying to lance in a southpaw left straight as Hunt followed.
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McGregor instead utilized an oblique kick, taking advantage of fighting a rare fellow southpaw.
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Poirier, also a southpaw, would do well to get to this early and often.
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The Mets also saw their bullpen ruin a good start from southpaw Steven Matz.
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The southpaw went 17-6 with a 3.32 ERA in 32 starts in 2017.
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In the second round Kongolo found continued success from switches into a southpaw stance.
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Anyone who knew Nate Diaz, the nature of southpaw vs southpaw match ups, and McGregor's reliance on his own reach at featherweight knew that there were a lot more interesting questions here than 'can McGregor's power translate' and 'can Diaz's chin take it?
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A 2012 Olympic quarter-finalist, the southpaw has held the IBF welterweight belt since 2017.
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Southpaw Kyle Ryan got pinch-hitter Mikie Mahtook for the final out of the seventh.
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An illustrious career Whitaker, a southpaw known for his defensive prowess, grew up in Norfolk.
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Floyd has always had problems with southpaws; Conor is a southpaw, and Conor hits hard.
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Against MacDonald, Lawler had crisped up his left straight and added a nice southpaw jab.
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A southpaw, Gastelum can thread the left straight down the centre of most opponents' guards.
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Lyoto Machida's southpaw stance allows him to play quickdraw with his lead leg round kick.
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The southpaw double attack is simply this: the left straight and the left round kick.
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But Drew Dober, a densely-muscled southpaw, saw a bigger opening — for an overhand left.
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Where Lyoto Machida constantly looks for that southpaw counter left straight while leaning outside the lead foot, and Stephen Thompson retreats to throw the southpaw counter left straight through the open side, Horiguchi is always in an orthodox stance, looking for his right hand.
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Being a southpaw, Edwards was looking to land counters through that open side when Cerrone charged, but rather than a neat straight left from the angle as Stephen Thompson and Conor McGregor use, he tried to check Cerrone's chin with a southpaw left hook.
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Ishihara was another southpaw who retreated and countered with the left hand as opponents over extended.
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Dos Santos showed plenty of it, often whipping in a southpaw jab from the new stance.
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Former Ranger Matt Garza gets the nod for Milwaukee opposite southpaw Martin Perez in the opener.
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When Jacobs switched to southpaw along the ropes against Golovkin, Triple G was ready for it.
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Wilder, standing in at six-foot-seven, was having trouble with the smaller southpaw in Szpilka.
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In the second-half, he lifts up six southpaw buckets, with an even three per quarter.
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Southpaw Sparring I can completely understand why people are following up the Mayweather versus McGregor story.
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Hitting lefties is something the big southpaw has struggled with over the course of his career.
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The southpaw was followed by fellow relievers Jose Castillo, Adam Cimber, Kirby Yates and Brad Hand.
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He even did it from a southpaw stance and transitioning to an orthodox stance mid-flow.
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Thompson, from his southpaw stance at any rate, is a kicker in the Bill Wallace style.
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But the southpaw escaped the jam with a strikeout and a groundout to end his outing.
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Both fight out of orthodox and southpaw stances but offer completely different weapons out of each.
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Waterson lashed out with side kicks while Namajunas looked for dominant foot positioning against the southpaw.
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The southpaw hasn't fought since dropping a unanimous decision loss to Paulie Malignaggi back in 2013.
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"While we were sleeping, Putin won the Italian election," the Twitter user Southpaw wrote this morning.
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Padres southpaw Clayton Richard allowed five runs on nine hits with three strikeouts in five innings.
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The swashbuckling Zarko Paspalj, rather than the future Chicago Bull Toni Kukoc, was my southpaw crush.
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The swashbuckling Zarko Paspalj, rather than the future Chicago Bull Toni Kukoc, was my southpaw crush.
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The southpaw had allowed four-plus runs in nine consecutive starts dating back to June 211.
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But as the round ended Kongolo switched to southpaw and found effect with the lead hand.
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Rothwell had tremendous trouble with the straight left of Brandon Vera when he was fighting southpaw, and tightened it up a bit against the southpaw Matt Mitrione, and didn't so much have to worry about straight blows as Overeem tentatively sprinted in and out with wild swings.
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This sets him up on that southpaw side angle that we discussed Danny Jacobs using last week.
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Venditte, 31, is able to pitch with either hand but primarily will be used as a southpaw.
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Henry Briones stabbed him up with jabs and Marcus Brimage caught him with stiff southpaw left straights.
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Secondly Till, once again a southpaw, is a constant threat with the left kick to the body.
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Jacobs had gone southpaw to try to confuse Pirog and it hadn't worked to slow him down.
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The five-time All-Star southpaw permitted just three hits and a walk over seven scoreless innings.
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A typical combination from the southpaw involves knifing jabs that give way to perfectly-timed left hooks.
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We're told it still has his southpaw stringing, scratches from his belt, and bonus ... Pepper still shreds.
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The tell for the southpaw left straight and round kick both come at the shoulders and hips.
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Then Chikadze scored a body kick out of the southpaw stance, set up by a high kick.
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And as the fight progressed it became more and more clear that while Nate Diaz was a southpaw who could box—jabbing and hooking—McGregor was a fighter who relied on the tremendous advantage of being a southpaw and being able to lance that left straight through cleanly.
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The champ is a southpaw after all, against whom the path will be clearer for rear hand leads.
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Southpaw Justin Wilson opened the eighth and left-handed hitters Odor and Nomar Mazara greeted him with singles.
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When Pettis went southpaw, Holloway would step up and use his lead leg to punt Pettis' across himself.
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"He's a southpaw, and it looked like Jack had a pretty strong, pretty mean left hook," quips Ventimiglia.
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Southpaw Drew Pomeranz stepped in after the delay and pitched four scoreless innings to keep the game close.
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Often he will switch to be in open guard—a mirror image of his opponent, orthodox vs. southpaw.
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In many respects, Johny was the mirror image of Josh: a southpaw wrestler with the big left hand.
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Red Sox southpaw David Price gave up just three hits and struck out six over six scoreless innings.
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The 28-year-old southpaw was 0-0 with a 13 ERA in eight relief appearances this season.
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The fifth-year southpaw struck out at least one batter in six of the seven innings he worked.
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Alas, time off from high-level competition was not rehab enough for the 24-year-old southpaw king.
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With a southpaw in Jamie Garcia starting, Kike Hernandez, and not Joc Pederson, got the start in center.
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Once again, Pud was coming in light (133 pounds) against Sirimongkol (136 pounds), a dangerous and unpredictable southpaw.
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However, Ward will often mitigate this risk through intelligent switching of stance as against the southpaw Chad Dawson.
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That is the 'outside angle' which is still the bread and butter of a southpaw versus orthodox fight.
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This is why good southpaw ring cutters will develop either a cracking lead hook or a back kick.
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For six rounds, Wilder, the W.B.C. heavyweight champion, was befuddled by the awkward southpaw style of Luis Ortiz.
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It would also be interesting to see Thompson attempt more of his counter punching from the southpaw stance.
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Over his last four contests, the southpaw has thrown 13 more than the average featherweight, according to CompuBox.
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After Whittaker switched back to orthodox, Romero switched to southpaw and attempted his favourite foot-trap-to-left-hand.
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By abandoning the southpaw stance, and the open guard position it created, Romero was losing that brutal straight kick.
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A southpaw, Till's left straight is his money punch and he can land it from all sorts of positions.
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Oakland trailed 26-28 entering the top of the seventh before rallying against Giants southpaw Tony Watson (2-3).
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Tigers lefty Blaine Hardy (2-0, 2.77 ERA) opposes Red Sox southpaw Eduardo Rodriguez (6-1, 3.88) Wednesday night.
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Beckham will take his hacks on Saturday against Detroit right-hander Drew VerHagen, who opposes Orioles southpaw Wade Miley.
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Even a mediocre southpaw can make the jabber's job very hard if his lead hand keeps obstructing the path.
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This kick in particular could come in handy if he ever gets that rematch with the bladed southpaw, McGregor.
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An interesting twist on this orthodox method was Adesanya's use of the same blow, starting in the southpaw stance.
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It took him the best part of a minute to work out the last southpaw he fought, Dustin Poirer.
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Fuqua, the director of movies like "Training Day" and "Southpaw," conducted extensive interviews with Knight in 2011 and 2012.
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Evans had few answers for Kelly's timing and unorthodox striking from his southpaw stance throughout 15 minutes of fighting.
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During the early 1970s, our man was the southpaw king and his powerful left round kick was the leveller.
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Taiga is a southpaw so Takeru's lead leg was kicking into the closed side rather than the open one.
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In a southpaw versus orthodox match up the rear leg of both men is kicking into the open side.
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Tarec Saffiedine went southpaw for some of his bout with MacDonald but never really took away MacDonald's lead hand.
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Sports Illustrated's Curry Kirkpatrick wrote in 1978 that the southpaw hurler was "America's paragon of lefthandedness," sports or otherwise.
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The All-Star southpaw lasted just three-plus innings, giving up five runs on eight hits with two strikeouts.
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Oakland trailed 3-2 entering the top of the seventh before rallying against Giants southpaw Tony Watson (2-3).
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Lomachenko showed not only an accurate jab, but the stunning left straight for which the southpaw should be feared.
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It is also worth noting that Jon Jones fought much of his fight with Cormier from a southpaw stance, and on the occasions that he fought orthodox he would withdraw his lead leg back into a southpaw stance whenever Cormier reached to pick up his favourite high crotch on the left leg.
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Drawing da Silva forward, Saki repeatedly switch to a southpaw stance to land heavy high kicks against da Silva's guard.
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Foreman's moment to take the title, however, came against Michael Moorer, the first southpaw to ever win the heavyweight title.
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The Mexican-born southpaw is 2-2 with a 4.61 ERA in six career games (five starts) against the Dodgers.
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Moraes was able to thread his right hand down the center of the southpaw Arce's guard whenever the latter jabbed.
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There was his shaggy look in The Good Girl, his dark mane in Donnie Darko, and his buzzcut in Southpaw.
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One thing the vast majority of people didn't pick up on was the fact that McGregor was sparring a southpaw.
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Left-hander Scott Alexander, who had been with the team for the NL Division Series, replaces fellow southpaw Caleb Ferguson.
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A rangy southpaw who is known for his jab and straight, Wallace has won the All-Ireland championships six times.
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Boxing out of the red corner, Sangmanee used every weapon in his southpaw armoury to try and nullify Superlek's rhythm.
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A few good fighters have been able to throw right hands while shifting back into a southpaw stance under fire.
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The eccentric southpaw has a history of teasing reporters, and the veracity of his latest explanation remained up for debate.
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The southpaw allowed two runs in 5 1/3 innings, giving up five hits, one walk and striking out five.
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We meet Gwen, a young southpaw with long fingers and hair dyed the color of a David Hockney swimming pool.
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Giants' president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi is open to offers for the Cy Young-winning southpaw, according to MLB.
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Benson Henderson had good success with low kicks against Edgar and might well have been the last southpaw Edgar faced.
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Furthermore, the southpaw counter right hook was a good part of Max Holloway's success against Cub Swanson... so there's a chance.
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He was also the first awkward southpaw opposition for Joshua to face since his 2012 Olympics final against Italian Roberto Cammarelle.
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Atlanta will send veteran right-hander Julio Teheran (2-3, 5.40) against rookie San Diego southpaw Chris Paddack (1-1, 1.67).
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Southpaw Hoby Milner pitched a scoreless ninth for the Phillies and they secured a series win for the second straight time.
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Recomposing himself, Jacobs switched to his southpaw stance to try to puzzle the Russian and only found himself getting more confused.
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The southpaw didn't allow more than one Brewers baserunner in any of his five innings, yielding four hits and fanning six.
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The 22-year-old southpaw scattered four hits, walked two and struck out five while recording his sixth consecutive quality start.
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The 23-year-old southpaw had been option to Triple-A Pawtucket to fix mechanical issues before returning to the rotation.
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That contest served as the first time in eight outings that the veteran southpaw has yielded more than three earned runs.
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The southpaw will be especially useful as the Red Sox open a four-game weekend series with the Rays on Friday.
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Johnson is fast southpaw whose style largely consists of movement and straight hitting, with the odd snappy low kick thrown in.
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A jab into the switch forty-five stance change of karate, followed by a nice southpaw right hook into left straight.
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From there he waited for Pearson to step in so that he could counter with different strikes from the southpaw position.
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The 31-year-old -- who also had roles in 'Expendables 3' and "Southpaw" -- surrendered to authorities in Oxnard, CA on Tuesday.
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Note how Ward steps into his southpaw stance as he moves past Dawson's lead leg and out of Dawson's firing line.
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It did, however, make Gastellum a more promising mark for the wheel kick which famously knocked out fellow southpaw, Luke Rockhold.
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Against the southpaw Robbie Lawler, dos Anjos used his step up lead leg kick to the body instead to much effect.
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Against southpaw opponents the lead leg round kick goes into their back—largely pointless compared to a good kick into the front of the body—and lead leg front kicks tend to be easily knocked off line by the opponent's lead elbow or knee just as the jab is inconvenienced by a southpaw opponent's lead arm.
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Each time the southpaw stepped in to build a combination, one big right hand came down the pipe and broke his combo.
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He has been working on darting in with the southpaw one-two, with the jab coming perfectly inside his opponent's lead hand.
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Against Cole Miller, Holloway flowed gracefully between both, often working from southpaw to shoot the left straight down the centre on Miller.
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Last year, Wanda helped produce "Southpaw," a boxing movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Rachel McAdams, which was released by the Weinstein Company.
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He won't meet many more southpaw boxers who are going to light him up at range in the featherweight division after all.
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Machida's best weapons have been his left round kick, his left straight, and his left knee, all out of a southpaw stance.
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Making his professional boxing debut in 1982, Samart threw himself in at the deep end by relearning the game as a southpaw.
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Whenever Pettis stood southpaw Holloway also applied nice outside low kicks with his lead leg into the back of Pettis' lead leg.
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In the southpaw versus orthodox match up, the round kick and the straight can be a lot more than just two strikes.
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But Wallin, a Swedish southpaw, opened a cut so bad in the third round that it left Fury's face a bloody mess.
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But, Martin—a long, rangy southpaw—has proved a difficult proposition so far in his career, accruing 21 knockouts to his resume.
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Against a southpaw, the double jab works but can get caught up in the lead hand if the opponent is actively handfighting.
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Rather than learning to fight side on and square from both sides, Thompson typically only goes side on from his southpaw stance.
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Though there was a nice southpaw right hook he showed a couple of times against Pettis which the latter was flummoxed by.
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But the Yankees finally got to Vargas again in the sixth, when Didi Gregorius chased the southpaw with a one-out homer.
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Then, in the sixth round, Martin finished him with that trusted southpaw left which he had been practising throwing throughout the bout.
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But Belt beat the percentages by homering on a 1-0 pitch for his first round-tripper against a southpaw this season.
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A pair of 8-5 starters square off Wednesday night, as right-hander Jimmy Nelson goes for Milwaukee opposite southpaw Gio Gonzalez.
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The 3.523-year-old southpaw is winless in two career starts against the Mets, but hasn't allowed a run over 23.52 innings.
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While Thompson can hit his open-side counters off both stances, his kicking game seems very different in southpaw and orthodox positions.
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Darren Till being a southpaw means that when Thompson fights with his strong leg forward he is in a closed guard engagement.
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Note that Lobov, who often does his best work as a southpaw, switched to an orthodox stance specifically to use this set up.
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Dressed casually, the Southpaw star ate a chicken Caesar salad, while the group shared some tomato, mozzarella and basil from Scampo's mozzarella bar.
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Left-hander Tyler Webb was optioned to Triple-A El Paso and fellow southpaw Kyle McGrath was designated for assignment in corresponding moves.
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Open Guard (southpaw versus orthodox) 101 is to get the outside angle on that lead foot because it provides such an easy escape.
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Aside from the discomfort of Jones not having prepared opponent specific the match up offers the intrigue that St. Preux is a southpaw.
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Michael Fulmer, whose name has surfaced in recent trade rumors, gets the start Saturday for the Tigers opposite Blue Jays southpaw Francisco Liriano.
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The rookie southpaw matched a career high with eight strikeouts, and the Yankees survived a turbulent ninth inning for a 103-5 win.
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For instance, as he circled to his left (fighting southpaw) against Joe Lauzon, he threw up a high kick from an inside angle.
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One such nak muay (Thai kickboxer) is Pernkun Tor Surat, a machine gun southpaw who fights out of 2115 Coins Gym in Bangkok.
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Alistair Overeem's cheat punch is the next logical step on our path because it is another left straight punch into a southpaw stance.
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As a southpaw, Gastelum was treated to a match up which allowed him to work his usually active lead hand far more freely.
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To say that the southpaw double attack is bolstered considerably by athleticism is not to detract from the fighting science at play though.
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Early on Whittaker connected a nice lead uppercut under a lazy Brunson jab, a great open guard counter for orthodox vs southpaw situations.
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"Whoa," they exclaimed after another swashbuckling southpaw forehand accompanied by the guttural Nadal soundtrack and that familiar curled-lip sneer of momentary satisfaction.
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El-Sayed's new group, SouthPaw MI PAC, aims to bolster liberal down-ballot candidates in Michigan and to weigh in on ballot initiatives.
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Not only can he fight out of an orthodox and a southpaw stance, but he can seemingly win in any number of ways.
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We all recall this sneaky southpaw hook from the ninety degree angle as Mike Tyson's favorite punch, but it is hardly a modern invention.
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"No one's keeping score of that," said Rangers center fielder Ian Desmond, one of Texas' two AL All-Stars along with southpaw Cole Hamels.
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Red Sox southpaw Eduardo Rodriguez (9-2, 3.86) is on the mound Friday to begin a three-game set at the New York Yankees.
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An interesting look that Dos Santos was showing throughout was a side step out into a southpaw stance, ducking down behind his right shoulder.
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His single in the first inning was the first hit by a left-handed batter against Kansas City southpaw Danny Duffy since July 22.
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In the first round Lawlor's southpaw right hook, and particularly rear hand parry into the right hook was on point and had Anderson wobbling.
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Luke Rockhold found himself in his first extended striking match with a southpaw and he actually brought the tools to do some good work.
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Seven months after defeating Timothy Bradley in his much trumpeted farewell to the sport, the Filipino southpaw will return to the ring on Nov.
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Dodson throws southpaw high kicks and sprints in, running to the outside of his opponent's lead foot and doubling up on the left straight.
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Gabriel Benitez put on a cracking showing against Sam Sicilia, utilizing that classic southpaw double attack of the round kick and the left straight.
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But Pacquiao fought back, throwing punches as he moved forward, landing southpaw jabs, straight lefts, and uppercuts on the inside, dictating the fight completely.
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His ability to switch from southpaw to orthodox to open up his big left uppercut caused Henrique a lot of trouble in his debut.
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After more studying, which probably didn't involve repeated viewings of Donnie Darko and Southpaw, the sheep identified their trainers seven out of ten times.
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When Lee switched to southpaw, Ferguson also found a hole for the Chinzo Machida special—a right front kick into a stepping right straight.
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Stepping up to throw a powerful inside low kick with his left leg, Brooks will retract the leg behind him into a southpaw stance.
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"For the last fight I was preparing for Dos Anjos for the lightweight belt, a small stocky southpaw," said McGregor, as reported by Balls.ie.
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The final round proved a wild finish as Fury went for the kill before being hit with a powerful left from the southpaw Wallin.
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Nevertheless ... Abel -- who wore a white robe with the American flag emblazoned on the back -- has proven he's got potential as a powerful southpaw.
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Once again the simple control of the lead foot and hand shows why it is the bread and butter of southpaw vs orthodox strategies.
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Holzken throws his left hook against the guard and switches out to his left side into a southpaw stance, throwing a left round kick.
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He's also only the 6th southpaw heavyweight champion in the history of sport, has an entertaining and competitive attitude, and Mormonism saved his life.
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Instead of coming out southpaw, as he had in the first match, Romero spent almost the entirety of the bout fighting from an orthodox stance.
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With the addition of kicks the southpaw Holm could get dominant footing, step out the side door, and throw up a leg when she left.
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He'd switch to southpaw, he'd walk with his punches, he'd hand trap, he even began to utilize some hands low offence and the shoulder roll.
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Adrian Gonzalez, Chase Utley and Corey Seager likely will return to the lineup Tuesday after sitting out the opener against Miami southpaw Wei-Yin Chen.
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Here, Jacobs begins in a southpaw stance, throws a counter left hand, and then shifts into an orthodox stance and walks with his left hook.
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The southpaw allowed a hit to a left-handed batter for the first time since July 22, as David Ortiz singled in the first inning.
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The southpaw has roughly $224 million still due on his $248 million salary this season, the final year of a five-year, $222 million contract.
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Remember how often Alexander Gustafsson had Jones reaching down or focusing on body jabs and imagine if that was a full fledged southpaw left straight.
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Henry will look at his opponent's stance and will switch to mirror it: if his opponent is orthodox he will go southpaw, and vice versa.
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Still, he recovered after the second inning, and with fellow southpaw Ranger Suarez combined to retire 13 straight White Sox hitters following Garcia's grand slam.
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Teammates grinned from the dugout upon seeing the unlikely display of offense from the veteran southpaw, who entered the game with a career average of .
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Screens were routinely set by whoever those two were guarding, usually in a way that allowed the southpaw to launch himself up the left sideline.
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More an annoyance than a hurting combination, this is a dart into a southpaw stance and a side kick as the opponent attempts to follow.
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The genius of it is that it closes the gap and puts Overeem into a southpaw stance, from which he can land his left knee.
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Really the southpaw double attack is a triple attack, or a quadruple attack, or whatever number of targets you can find with those two strikes.
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Switching to southpaw, Rodriguez can throw powerful left high kicks to keep Jung's right hand—which is famously undisciplined in its position—tucked in tight.
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Denis Shapovalov, an 18-year-old Canadian and perhaps the game's most intriguing comer, displayed breathtaking southpaw strokes in stunning eighth-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
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At 13, she played Jake Gyllenhaal's daughter in 2015's Southpaw, about a professional boxer fighting to gain back custody and revive his flagging career.
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Playing short-handed because of injuries, the Mets were forced to slot five left-handed hitters into the starting lineup against Lester, a tough southpaw.
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Dropping it below the opponent's line of sight in order to bring it up from underneath, Nasukawa avoids the "crossed swords" of the southpaw vs.
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Drawing out the left straight and countering with the right to the body underneath is also a great way to punish a southpaw sharp shooter.
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Here's Kipnis knocking over a hot dog with ketchup: Here he is stealing the Phanatic's ride: Here he is with teammate Francisco Lindor beating the snot out of the Tampa Bay Rays mascot, Raymond: And here he is being stalked by Southpaw, the hairy peanut of the White Sox: No doubt Southpaw soon found himself in a dark alley, regretting ever tangling with Kipnis. 10.
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This use of the southpaw right uppercut to both close the distance and stand the opponent up was a staple of the great Nak Muay, Yodsanklai.
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In the final round, Whittaker switched to southpaw to attempt some intercepting side kicks as Romero came forward, more aggressive than in the previous four rounds.
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He battled back from an 212-22 count against southpaw Scott Alexander by hitting an opposite-field line drive on a pitch off the outside corner.
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Rockhold showed some biting low kicks against Dave Branch, switching stances to do so, and against Chris Weidman in the moments that Weidman switched to southpaw.
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At one point, Cabrera was 2155-for-33 off Sabathia but he is hitless in his last 23 regular-season at-bats against the veteran southpaw.
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Where Lyoto uses round kicks a good deal more, particularly the left kick to his man's liver from a southpaw stance, Chinzo attacks the centre line.
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Moraes's left hook—without a doubt his money punch—began to snap in over Dodson's shoulder as he squared up to throw the southpaw left straight.
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The team said further details will be provided upon completion of the surgery, though manager Bob Melvin hinted the southpaw could be sidelined a full year.
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Tyrone Wallace is a Right-Handed Southpaw The Los Angeles Clippers played 18 different starting lineups last year, and in 2015 they only trotted out nine.
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The dart is one of Alvarez's favorite weapons which he tells me he learned from Bernard Hopkins, it becomes even more valuable against a southpaw opponents.
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Three of those players are on a max contract and the fourth is a 83-year-old southpaw who's shooting 47 percent from above the break.
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He's technically sound but without power, and makes a failed attempt to snatch a bantam title from a southpaw Frenchman whose back is all knotted muscle.
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There are exceptions: clubs sometimes hire local lefties, whether an amateur or recent retiree, before facing a southpaw if every coach on staff is a righty.
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Felder, a heavy counter striker who excels with intercepting knees, was drawn out with feints and the scrappy southpaw, Trinaldo, capitalized on Felder's overcommitments each time.
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After some months of training Sangmanee, he got on his motorbike to scour the Thai countryside and set up fights for the 219-year-old southpaw.
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It was as if Saban had spent the entire season giving minimal playing time to this reserve, a slinging southpaw named Tua Tagovailoa, on a dare.
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But now that the southpaw traded his glove for a guitar, would he give up the highest pitching honor to be recognized in the music industry?!
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Duke, a team often laden with unique talent, now features Zion Williamson and his fellow southpaw R. J. Barrett, the two best lefties in college basketball.
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Facing southpaw Kolarek later in the inning, lefty pinch hitter Ruiz grounded an RBI single to left to give Baltimore its first lead at 3-2.
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The Weeknd has produced tracks for Southpaw and the Fifty Shades of Grey films, and all three artists were featured on Kendrick Lamar's Black Panther-themed album.
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But both also hold vast wells of amateur experienced that they can draw on and are hardly going to be stumped for ideas when meeting another southpaw.
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And here he shows the same thing with a feinted jab before it, this time against another southpaw, which can make landing the left straight more difficult.
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Who knows how viable 'the lace' it will be against the predominantly southpaw Silva, but it was always one of my favorite nasty touches in Bisping's game.
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Twenty-four-year-old left-hander Jalen Beeks makes his major league debut for Boston in Thursday's finale opposite Tigers southpaw Matthew Boyd (3-4, 3.23 ERA).
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Punishing the Southpaw Straight You need only compare the Assuncao fight to Moraes's next performance against John Dodson to see his versatile and adaptive mind in action.
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The 6-6 southpaw did not factor in the decision at Kansas City in his previous turn despite limiting the Royals to two runs over seven innings.
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LHP Ryan Merritt got his scheduled start rained out Thursday in Detroit, but manager Terry Francona said afterward his rookie southpaw will start Friday in Kansas City.
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Moving fluidly between orthodox and southpaw stance, Adesanya was fairly minimalist in the techniques he actually used but his first opponent, Robert Thomas, was a stylistic dream.
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As Bisping froze up, Silva did the old Naseem Hamed special, ducked out the window and came up with a lead southpaw uppercut into a left straight.
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However, he knuckled down and soon became known on the circuit as a gutsy, come forward, technical southpaw who would have a go with just about anyone.
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Southpaw Pud Pad Noy may have been the smaller fighter but he had a habit of making orthodox boxers, like Apidej, look like joeys in the ring.
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Anthony Johnson had a degree of success with his left round kicks both from his usual step up in orthodox stance, and when he switched to southpaw.
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Making the homer all the more improbable was the fact that Woodruff, a right-handed pitcher, bats from the left and still took the southpaw Kershaw deep.
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In 2018, Estrada lost a close decision to his super flyweight rival Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, a Thai southpaw rated among the planet's top pound-for-pound boxers.
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From his southpaw stance, he could pick and probe at Woodley's lead leg while inviting him forward and checking him each time—as Jon Jones often does.
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In addition to appearing in several movies -- including "Southpaw" and the"Fifty Shades of Grey" franchise -- she had deals with brands like Adidas, Rimmel and lingerie brand Tezenis.
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The South Side southpaw then wound up and delivered a looping pitch that ended up in the left-handed batter's box, nearly scooting past Nationals legend Ryan Zimmerman.
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The young southpaw held the Yankees to one run on three hits and a walk with six strikeouts over seven innings, but walked away with a no-decision.
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On the Goofy Foot NES controller, the directional pad and the A+B buttons are reversed, so southpaw gamers can finally feel comfortable playing their favorite classic games.
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Elias posted a 15-20 record over two seasons with Seattle, but he was shipped to Boston along with reliever Carson Smith in exchange for southpaw Wade Miley.
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Page began the bout in an orthodox stance but after Daniels had attacked the body underneath his lead hand a few times, Page switched to a southpaw stance.
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The shifting southpaw right hook that Volkanovski showed is a beautiful punch to punish a circling fighter and one which George Foreman used to great success in boxing.
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Danny Roberts and Mike Perry also had a thoroughly entertaining scrap, Perry fighting with his head upright and hands low, eating flush left straights from the southpaw Roberts.
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The low line side kick (not such a factor against a fellow southpaw), the front snap kick to the midsection, the back kick and the jumping back kick.
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The Dodgers will counter with left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu in Game 225, righty Walker Buehler in Game 22018 and southpaw Rich Hill in Game 232 on Tuesday.
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Stearns could conceivably go on a similarly aggressive promoting streak this year, with southpaw Josh Hader and outfielder Brett Phillips each making sense as a plausible call-up.
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What is interesting about Ward is that he fights orthodox, building off of his tremendously dexterous and powerful lead hand, but will often switch to southpaw for periods.
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When Ricci stood southpaw, Felder attempted to step in with the jab on the inside angle as Michael Bisping did so successfully against Anderson Silva and Luke Rockhold.
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The MMA aficionado's favourite old man got up to his usual southpaw antics in the first round, stuffing Lee's takedowns and counter punching with his powerful left hand.
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In the other quarter-finals, Russia's Misha Aloian beat Colombia's Ceiber Avila to set up a semi-final with China's Hu Jianguan, who defeated Cuban southpaw Yosbany Veitia.
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Though he stands 6 feet 9 inches, he moves with the agility of a smaller man and can switch from a southpaw to an orthodox style with ease.
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Out in the open Alvarez's favourite darting right could be an excellent weapon against the southpaw and could even set up a nice high kick or body kick.
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Pirates rookie Jameson Taillon will be making his 21th start and is in search of his first home win as he opposes southpaw Christian Friedrich in the finale.
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The Seattle chef John Sundstrom just opened Southpaw, a 393-seat pizzeria on the original site of his fine-dining restaurant, Lark, which has moved to bigger digs.
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The first baseman battled back from an 0-2 count against southpaw Scott Alexander by hitting an opposite-field line drive on a pitch off the outside corner.
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Open guard (southpaw versus orthodox or vice versa) 101 is the battle of the lead foot, attempting to line up rear handed strikes and kicks inside of the opponents.
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A sharp jab and southpaw left straight are good weapons on the outside, but Lomachenko does his best work cutting angles and letting his hands go in mid-range.
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Mets 7, Giants 0 Jason Vargas continued his unlikely resurgence, when the 36-year-old southpaw tossed his eighth career shutout to lead host New York past San Francisco.
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Lee believed in standing southpaw, so as to lead with the strong hand and leg, and put the lead leg in line with the (normally orthodox) opponent's lead leg.
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Dillashaw fights southpaw pretty well, it would be interesting to see him draw out Garbradnt's rushes and hit him with the left straight to counter as Marcus Brimage did.
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Evans confounded everyone by standing in front of the southpaw Nogueira for three whole rounds doing nothing but tapping his lead hand and shooting jabs straight into his palm.
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With one out in the 11th, the left-handed hitting Harper battled Mets southpaw Josh Smoker (0-1) for seven pitches before he doubled down the left field line.
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Robles "sliced an eighth-inning single off Jalisco southpaw Jose Ivan Salas," Baskin wrote on his website Baseball Mexico, which he rebooted this November after a three-year hiatus.
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Tyson shifted into a southpaw stance and found Spinks' chin with another left uppercut, followed by a lead right hook to the ribs which sent Spinks to a knee.
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Even turning Khabib southpaw just for this fight—placing his lead shoulder between his jawline and McGregor's left hand—would serve to complicate the path of McGregor's favorite punch.
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Creditors, including hedge funds BlueMountain Capital Management LLC, Southpaw Asset Management LP and Pentwater Capital Management LP, won control of the company last year as part of the bankruptcy.
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"We decided overnight it was probably best" to place Griffin on the disabled list, manager Jeff Banister said, and recall southpaw Alex Claudio, which the Texas Rangers did Sunday.
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The 22012-year-old southpaw got off to a great start to the season but has since gone 2-6 with a 6.78 ERA over his past 11 starts.
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The Rangers won the first and last games of a three-game weekend set at Comerica Park, beating two southpaw starters and improving to 8-13 away from home.
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McCann had fast hands and put them to good use as he used Larios as target practice, hitting him with southpaw jabs, lead left hooks, and spiteful body shots.
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Hall of Fame southpaw Sandy Koufax, who retired in 1966, pitched B.P. to the Dodgers before his old club faced four lefty Yankees starters in the 1981 World Series.
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Until the last couple of generations of fighters, the southpaw versus orthodox match up was considered to be all about the rear hand and stepping outside the lead foot.
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But in the past two decades especially we have been seeing a greater use of the lead hand and of the inside angle in southpaw versus orthodox match ups.
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The angles change, any advantage a southpaw might gain from being unusual to orthodox opponents is lost and it becomes more like a match up between two orthodox fighters.
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For instance, Ricci went to throw his left kick from a southpaw stance, but decided against it, leaving Felder to fail the kick-under-kick counter he was attempting.
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In the fifth round Holzken looked much better, he shellacked Groenhart with low kicks from the southpaw stance which he had used effectively and then abandoned in round one.
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The Cubs' futility at the plate spoiled a terrific outing from veteran southpaw Jon Lester (4-2), who limited Cleveland to one run on six hits in seven innings.
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In the above example, Moicano actually shifts off to his left side as he throws the check hook, taking him into a southpaw stance to land a right hook/uppercut.
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By matching New Orleans's offer sheet for Tyrone Wallace (who's a right-handed southpaw) this week, they guaranteed 17 contracts, which means two players have to go before opening night.
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The knockdown provided the confidence that Cruickshank needed and he began to find his mark with his right straight both in combination and on the counter against the Japanese southpaw.
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The 37-year-old southpaw returned to the ring after a seven month retirement to claim the WBO welterweight title by beating Jessie Vargas in Las Vegas earlier this month.
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Staying southpaw against Brunson will result in a closed guard matchup, where Machida's rear-handed counterpunches often make him a bit more susceptible to being clipped on the follow-up.
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We sometimes refer to it as 'the old southpaw double attack', but in an open guard engagement the rear leg round kick and rear straight will always pair up wonderfully.
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Dude not only left the mustard on, but he appears to be a southpaw—using his phone on his left ear, perilously hovering it over his conspicuously gigantic mustard blob.
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Wilder and Ortiz fought once before when, in 2018, the 40-year-old Cuban gave a good account of himself with his southpaw stance, probing jab, and counter left hand.
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Against Mark Hunt it was the wheel kick, against Miocic it was the calf kick, against Miocic and Rothwell it was the side step into southpaw stance along the fence.
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The southpaw double attack doesn't work unless you can snap out that left straight quick enough to sneak it through and with enough authority that the opponent must do something.
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Wilder, America&aposs hard-hitting heavyweight, made the 10th defense of his WBC title on Saturday when he came from behind to knock out the technically skilled southpaw Luis Ortiz.
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Mullin didn't know what hurt more, his son's disappointment or the fact that his children would never get to see him draining southpaw jumpers with the perfect arc and spin.
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In recent years Rockhold has walked his man down, punting their arms and body whenever they stand still, only to skip back with the southpaw check hook whenever they advance.
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The corkscrew lead uppercut, a favorite set up of Naseem Hamed and Marvin Hagler, would continue to find Holzken's jaw from Kongolo's switches into the southpaw stance throughout the bout.
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After struggling against another southpaw Friday, the Dodgers hope they can remain undefeated against right-handers one day later as they continue a three-game set in Colorado against the Rockies.
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Here a jab begets a counter, which Smith evades with a check hook while back stepping to an angle, and attempts to follow with a southpaw right hook from said angle.
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And the southpaw McGregor kept his right hand up in Mayweather's face at all times, a tactic that clearly irritated Mayweather, who kept batting the hand away to get an angle.
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After Joe Panik bunted Rosario to third, the southpaw Hand intentionally walked Pete Alonso to bring up left-handed hitting Michael Conforto, who hit a potential double-play ball to first.
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It's been a minute, as evidenced by the fact that the most recent Getty Image search results for our dude are from the 2015 premiere of the Jake Gyllenhaal film Southpaw.
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Southpaw Kyle Ryan gave up a leadoff single in the ninth but then retired three in a row to complete the three-hitter against a New York team that had batted .
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The Indians' vaunted bullpen did the rest, with left-hander Boone Logan, right-hander Brian Shaw, southpaw Andrew Miller and closer Cody Allen combining to work 3 1/3 hitless innings.
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The veteran southpaw won the rubber match of his trilogy with Timothy Bradley Jr. in April of 216, dropping the American twice and receiving 116-110 marks from all three judges.
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But then Johnson was a southpaw whose game was outfighting and Gaethje is an orthodox fighter whose game is throwing himself against his opponent over and over until they fall down.
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He's aggressive and steady at the same time, and, as a smooth southpaw, almost prefers to finish with his right hand, be it in traffic or off balance, whenever he can.
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Keeler would not be fazed by his southpaw stance or his slick skills, as he says he learned a lot sparring a similar fighter — the British super middleweight Billy Joe Saunders.
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Scoggins back kicks out of his southpaw stance and as we examined how ineffective Valentina Shevchenko's back kicks often are from this stance it might be a good idea to compare.
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Switching to the southpaw stance will also open up the body kicks that Cormier loathes, and perhaps even the left straight down the middle if Johnson feels confident with that weapon.
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Through fighting without gloves, Saenchai has been developing his left straight into the kind of speedy, sneaking left straight which can carry a southpaw to a decent career on its own.
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Reyes's boxing isn't great past the first punch and his kicking is not very varied, but the southpaw double attack continues to be the great game breaker in kickboxing and MMA.
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Just like Reyes, Cro Cop didn't work well in combinations and his right hand was almost an afterthought, but he had the most important part of that southpaw double attack: speed.
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All Newell is thinking about is victory, taking fights that will improve his ranking in Bellator's lightweight division, then targeting the Brazilian southpaw Patricio "Pitbull" Freire, the current Bellator lightweight champion.
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It all went down at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn during Showtime Boxing&aposs main event bout between prominent Philadelphian fighter Danny Garcia and the Ukrainian southpaw Ivan Redkach on Saturday.
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The White Sox want to be cautious with the 24-year-old southpaw and former No. 3 overall draft pick who figures to be a long-term fixture in the rotation.
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Why he's ranked: The 28-year-old southpaw is one of three fighters on this list who have benefitted from participating — and winning — the prestigious World Boxing Super Series (WBSS) competition.
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Not punching as he stepped and opening himself up to a counter, but stepping into a southpaw stance and staying on guard, before opening up with punches after closing the distance.
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When he went southpaw and then threw his wickedly fast left round kick into the open side, he was able to land body kicks and slow Jung down through the middle rounds.
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Among the possible outcomes, Kershaw and the Dodgers could agree to a new long-term agreement, add to the existing deal or the southpaw could be allowed to talk to other teams.
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When Jacobs caught Sergio Mora overcommitting he was able to slide out the side door, shifting into a southpaw stance and throwing a tight right hook through the front of Mora's stance.
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Fighting with a more familiar style from the orthodox stance and that Superfoot triple threat from the southpaw stance, Scoggins picks his man apart with side kicks, round kicks and hook kicks.
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Nasukawa also has a brilliant check hook and a solid southpaw kicking game—pounding the opponent's right arm with the round kick and looking to drive stepping knees in when he can.
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Playing matchmaker, Bernstein wants to see Davis put his title on the line against Philadelphian southpaw Farmer, a world title unification bout that would also put Farmer's IBF strap up for grabs.
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Bisping had been doing decent work with a nice jab—stepping inside of the southpaw Silva's lead foot to create the straight line between shoulder and face inside of Silva's lead arm.
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Here McGregor's sparring partner circles past his lead leg (a difficulty for any southpaw in a long, bladed stance), shows direction changes, and uses a dart to get out the other side.
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Pacquiao match-up would certainly produce big numbers and victory for the Ukrainian southpaw would certainly fast-track his rise to superstardom while bolstering his position in the pound-for-pound stakes.
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When the two fight out of a southpaw stance they fight side on, do most of their kicking with their lead leg, and look to turn with back kicks and wheel kicks.
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Overeem uses this to enter clinches, to run into his knees, to score low kicks, to land a southpaw right hook, and for just about every other task you can think of.
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You can hide the stance changes in constant motion or in small walking steps—here Dillashaw steps ever so briefly into an orthodox stance before slowly stepping back into a southpaw one.
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Whether Thompson is southpaw or orthodox, he fights from a lengthy stance that allows him to push off of the mat in front or behind him and create or close distance rapidly.
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The Southpaw, 35, actor stopped by Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston's Charlestown neighborhood on Thursday in preparation for his upcoming film Stronger in which he stars as Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman.
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Alex Bregman and Carlos Correa worked walks against right-hander Pedro Araujo (0-1), leading to a pitching change that called upon southpaw Nestor Cortes Jr. to face the left-handed-hitting Reddick.
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Sipp, expecting the birth of his second child, is the lone southpaw in the Houston bullpen, a fact that presents a bit of concern against the Mariners and their seven left-handed hitters.
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As limited as his striking is, lacking combinations and dropping his right hand every time he throws his left, St. Preux still has that weirdness as a southpaw with a powerful left hand.
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This principle is built on the same idea that makes a southpaw counter puncher so dangerous—the opponent's lead shoulder and back aren't protecting him when you are striking into the open side.
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Warner had fallen seven runs short of a century in Wednesday's fourth ODI at Canberra but there was no such heartbreak this time as the southpaw brought up his run-a-ball century.
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It is said that his "irresistible left hook" earned him his fighting name, 'the Eastern Southpaw', and Lee would enthral the wide-eyed young twins with tales of fighting bareknuckle in Victoria Park.
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Fast forward to Jon Jones versus Daniel Cormier and it was Jones' constant body work with kicks and long left straights from a southpaw stance that made Cormier slow from round to round.
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"You don't want to jump too far ahead but to have it in the back of your mind is totally O.K. with me," said Mitchell, a 225-foot-23-inch southpaw-shooting guard.
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LAS VEGAS — An American southpaw knocked his UFC opponent down with a counter left hand, held him down with one fist, then punched him 11 times while he lay defenseless on the canvas.
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Almost all of Thompson's lead leg kicking is done from his more bladed southpaw stance, while he throws more bread-and-butter kickboxing stuff focused on the rear leg from his orthodox stance.
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Nasukawa, giving up some height and range, could not place that flicking upjab that he leaned on against Visanlek and often found himself struggling to control the "crossed swords" of the southpaw vs.
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Southpaw McGregor downed Alvarez three times in the opening round, leaving the champion stunned and on the back foot for the entire five minutes, and it didn't get any better for the Philadelphia native.
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The southpaw Johnson's left straight to the body and left kick to the lead leg allowed him to score points, break Ferguson's stance before he could step in, and slow him down a little.
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That caused manager Don Mattingly to alter the position of three other players while also taking the lefty-hitting Dietrich off the bench and putting him in left field against Colorado southpaw Tyler Anderson.
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Dos Santos rarely kept his left hand up as he changed into the southpaw stance, however, so when he used it to circle away along the cage he often ran onto the right hook.
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If he could land a few of these it would serve to distract from the gorgeous drop onto the lead leg that he likes to do from southpaw stance, setting up a takedown attempt.
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Later that day, Tone headed over to a studio run by Steel Tipped Dove, a producer and engineer who works out of the building that housed the now-shuttered Southpaw music venue in Brooklyn.
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The southpaw has a 59-6-2 win-loss-draw record and is the winner of world titles in eight different weight divisions and the first sitting Senator to win a world boxing title.
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Uzbek Shakhram Giyasov, 23, reached the welterweight semis with a victory over Roniel Iglesias, a southpaw Cuban, while Morocco's Mohammed Rabii, France's Souleymane Cissokho and Kazakh Daniyar Yeleussinov also advanced to the last four.
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If I had to put my money on it, I'd say Charles Martin stops Joshua as he's a 6ft 5in punching southpaw with combinations, who's not afraid of people just because they've got muscles.
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Notice how Ward's combination carries him back into orthodox stance and he immediately goes back to the body with the straight right hand which is the keystone punch of the orthodox versus southpaw scenario.
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Braves 11, White Sox 23 Southpaw Dallas Keuchel won his third straight start and highlighted a six-run first inning with a two-run single to send Atlanta to a win over visiting Chicago.
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Quintana, who is scheduled to face Seattle LHP Wade Miley on Tuesday, hasn't beaten a fellow southpaw since the White Sox handed Texas and LHP Martin Perez a 33-0 loss on April 22.
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The former Detroit Health Department executive director, who said he plans to run for office again someday, is hoping SouthPaw MI PAC will focus supporters on candidates up and down the ticket in November.
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It started in the sixth inning when southpaw Eric O'Flaherty (25.74-28) allowed back-to-back doubles to Rosario and Juan Centeno, a pair of left-handed hitters, to snap a 28-43 tie.
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St. Louis C Yadier Molina is 43-for-32 with three doubles and a homer against Lester, but the rest of the Cardinals' roster is a combined 29-for-159 against the southpaw. 3.
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Ellenberger would begin in his usual orthodox stance, circle out to his left while retreating into a southpaw stance, and fire the kick into the open side before his man had recognized the change.
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Against southpaw opponents dos Anjos can punt straight out of his stance into their lead leg, which is especially effective against fighters who have their lead foot slightly toed in as Lawler often does.
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Diaz, a 5-foot-5 southpaw has only a 67-inch reach, so he effectively abandons his jab in favor of power shots, which account for 87% of his landed punches, according to CompuBox.
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The two men touched gloves and Pirog immediately pursued Jacobs to the ropes—shifting in from orthodox to southpaw and orthodox again, and sending the flustered Jacobs to the mat with a short right hand.
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Making his first Wrigley Field appearance since no-hitting the Cubs in 2015 with the Phillies, the Texas Rangers' southpaw worked eight innings as the Rangers salvaged the series finale with a 3.013-1 victory.
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We noted of Adesanya in our pre-fight analysis: That flicking jab from below the guard—the blind angle—worked a treat throughout the fight, switching to a powerful left straight when Adesanya went southpaw.
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With cheers of 'Ali, Ali' echoing around the arena from a home crowd enjoying the chance to hail his late heavyweight world champion namesake, Ali was outmaneuvered 3-0 by Venezuelan southpaw Yoel Segundo Finol.
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In fact, while the angles change slightly for most of the game out at range when one fighter is southpaw, everything opens up just the same the moment they square up, inside of punching range.
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As Maia is a southpaw the angles won't be quite the same, and given Maia's love of the single leg takedown and desire to fight on the ground, Masvidal may well eschew low kicks altogether.
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He beat Tom Schwarz with ease as he knocked the German out in just two rounds earlier in the summer, but was made to labor for his win against Swedish southpaw Otto Wallin this weekend.
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Em's last dalliance in the film world was almost having Jake Gyllenhaal's role in the boxing flick Southpaw, and his new project is still competition-oriented, except it's about his beloved field of battle rap.
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By squaring the shoulders and hips, and then stepping into the southpaw stance, you can throw a left straight with power out of what would have been a jab—hence it is a 'cheat punch'.
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Jackson desires an Etch A Sketch clearance of his team's culture, the kind now afforded Divac, who will hand the ball to Fox, a southpaw who is 6-foot-4 with a seven-foot wingspan.
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Here's a lovely instance in which Holzken retreats on an angle after just switching to a southpaw stance, shelling himself in the long guard, and immediately returns with a pair of knees to the midsection.
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Mix all of that with a precise striking accuracy, the ability to switch stance between orthodox and southpaw, and a decent ground and submission game, and you are getting close to the perfect mixed martial artist.
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Manu Ginobili might be the most unique, engaging, and adored player of his time, a breathtaking southpaw whose competitive aggression and boundless ambition co-existed to create someone who redefined what it meant to play free.
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Golovkin jabs well but he will just as happily jump in with a left hook, throw a right hand lead off the bat, or shift into a southpaw stance as he takes a double step in.
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Before pressing in along the fence, Stephens will always show an unconvincing fake double jab, or a right straight which he steps into a southpaw stance to make a jab, then the big swing will come.
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"It's funny, because I did this movie Southpaw right before, and at the first act of that movie, my wife dies, and then I was reading the script, and I went, 'I don't know …' " Gyllenhaal said.
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The 40-year-old Cuban, with his southpaw stance, probing jab, and counter left hand, won rounds off of Wilder in their WBC heavyweight world title fight, but was eventually dropped and stopped in the 10th.
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Even after being knocked down in the fourth round, Jacobs seemed to get stronger in the 10th and 11th, occasionally switching to a southpaw stance and using his right jab to create some room to work.
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Should a left-hander opt to fight as a southpaw (with his right foot forward) he is something exotic and unusual with full, powerful left hands sneaking through from unusual angles with slight steps off line.
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Prograis boxed with a distinctive guard in which his left glove protected his chin and his right stayed loose, and he southpaw jabbed Taylor, boxing cute, showing superior activity in the early stages of the contest.
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As part of its launch, SouthPaw MI PAC is rolling out its first set of midterm endorsements, backing Democratic attorney general nominee Dana Nessel and two candidates for state Supreme Court, Sam Bagenstos and Megan Cavanagh.
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There is no shoulder to duck down behind and protect you from the opponent's rear hand when standing in an open stance match up, so southpaw – orthodox match ups can turn into quick draw on the straight.
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Smiling despite a unanimous decision that awarded the gold to Dusmatov, a southpaw and winner of last year's Asian championships, Martínez paraded around the ring with his arm around his victor, pointing at the winner in tribute.
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Californian southpaw Dominick Reyes proved to be a game challenger for the champion's light heavyweight title, attacking Jones with a combination of strikes and varying his target from the head to the body and even the legs.
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Bumgarner is 24-23 with a 2.70 ERA in his career against the Dodgers, who figure to give reserve outfielder Enrique Hernandez a rare start, as he is 12-for-24 with three homers against the southpaw.
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Fellow southpaw Alex Wood upstaged his three-time Cy Young Award-winning teammate one night later, striking out 10 over six scoreless frames in a 33-0 win - the Rockies' second home shutout loss of the season.
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The southpaw has faced Chicago on three occasions this season, collecting a pair of no-decisions in May before scattering three hits and striking out 10 in six innings in a 4-1 victory on June 11.
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If you're looking for shreds of doubt to bolster the chance that McGregor—a tall, lanky southpaw with unorthodox footwork and a left hand that hurts—might really win, his UFC career is ripe for cherry picking.
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Use of the southpaw left straight to the body could open up some options for Maia on the feet—making his level changes a two part threat and possibly setting up shots to the head later on.
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Merge them and you might have a player bearing some resemblance to Fox, whose speed dribble and southpaw savvy were dominant as his Sacramento Kings crushed the Knicks on Sunday night at Madison Square Garden, 242-219.
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The crowd packing Ashe could appreciate the late-blooming Kerber with her counterpunching southpaw strokes and grew acquainted with Pliskova mighty fast as she worked her way past a Grand Slam third round for the first time.
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The first-time All-Star southpaw is 0-2 with three no-decisions and a 2.013 ERA after allowing 15 runs over 25 2/3 innings since being acquired in a July 14 trade from San Diego.
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When Lee knocked Ferguson off his feet with a southpaw jab on one of his earliest kicks, Ferguson scrambled and Lee pursued straight onto Ferguson's first effective check hook of the fight, sending Lee to a knee.
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But, on Saturday, in the penultimate bout of an event headlined by Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury, Martin boxed patiently for the first half of each opening round, then pumped the southpaw straight left into his opponent.
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It would be good to see Thompson switch to southpaw and attempt to retreat to his left side in order to line up that left hand over the right shoulder, through the angle on the open side.
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A cursory check yields a bunch more from recent years, like Southpaw (2015), Foxcatcher (2014), The Fighter (2010), Fighting (2009), The Wrestler (2008), Warrior (2011), Cinderella Man (2005), and Million Dollar Baby (2004), rare for its female lead.
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The 2394-year-old is 22-21 with a 215 ERA in his career against Milwaukee, while Keon Broxton (143-for-214, double) and Jonathan Villar (26-for-25, two doubles) have had their way with the southpaw.
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Meanwhile, Mayweather has been working with men like Zab Judah—the original lightning-fast southpaw who gave him trouble—and he has gone the distance numerous times with the finest names in boxing over the last two decades.
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Every time Wilson Reis turned to correct for Cejudo's slight angle, Cejudo could step outside of Reis's lead foot—occupied in pivoting—and go to classical southpaw vs orthodox offense: the rear hand straight or the stepping knee.
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Urias became the youngest Dodger to appear in a game since the Mexican-born southpaw Fernando Valenzuela was called up at 19 toward the end of the 1980 season from the Dodgers' Class AA affiliate in San Antonio.
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Although the studio found various levels of success last year with "Southpaw" and "Woman in Gold," recent releases like "Hands of Stone," a boxing drama, and the period musical "Sing Street" have failed to connect with ticket buyers.
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After Roberts called on southpaw Grant Dayton to face left-handed-hitting Jake Lamb, who has 23 home runs and a team-high 24.94 RBIs, Diamondbacks manager Chip Hale sent Rickie Weeks Jr. to pinch-hit for Lamb.
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The Muay Thai switch hitter settled on southpaw for his hands-only style, and, after working his way up the rankings, won the WBC super bantamweight with a fifth round demolition of Mexican warrior Lupe Pintor in 1986.
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Ocampo fought southpaw for a good portion of the fight meaning that Machida abandoned his lead leg front kick in favor of the rear leg front kick, and connected stepping rights off it on a couple of occasions.
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His confidence grew as the rounds wore on, and his effectiveness increased as he shifted from a conventional to a southpaw stance, with Jacobs, 30, discovering he could hit the onrushing Golovkin with right jabs seemingly at will.
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While Roach quips that Pacquiao's embrace of Christianity has stopped the knockout blows from coming pundits have questioned whether the southpaw still has the power that accounted for the likes of De La Hoya, Shane Mosley and Ricky Hatton.
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Dillashaw doesn't tend to wade between stances as he strikes as much as Cruz did, instead he much prefers a drop shift, essentially a jab while stepping into a southpaw stance to the outside of the opponent's lead foot.
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Sibling scribes Shea and Evan Mirzai, who wrote the high school comedy Ultra for Sony and Will Smith's production company, have teamed with the father-and-son producing team of Alan and Peter Riche (Southpaw) to develop The Olympians.
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Often the right kick pushed Romero away, but Whittaker also looked to step in with southpaw overhand lefts, or to put his right foot down behind him so that he could spring into his money punch, the left hook.
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Facing elimination, the rotund southpaw Lolich gave up three runs in the first inning of Game 2500, then held after that as the Tigers staged two rallies, one begun by a Stanley triple, for a 2000-2301 comeback win.
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It used to be that promoters were uninterested by southpaw versus orthodox match ups because they were not very fan friendly with a ton of front hand slapping at the opponent's front hand and loading up on power punches.
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C Brian McCann hit his 10th home run of the season off Red Sox LHP Drew Pomeranz, his fifth homer against a lefty, which leads the American League for homers by a left-handed-hitting batter against a southpaw.
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In his writings on Jeet Kune Do, Bruce Lee advocated fighting southpaw to put the strongest foot in front, and in order to place this foot as close as possible to the opponent's lead leg: longest weapon to nearest target.
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Since then she's hosted the reality shows America's Next Top Model and Boy Band, landed small roles in the Fifty Shades of Grey films and Jake Gyllenhaal-led boxing movie Southpaw, and collaborated with brands including Rimmel, Adidas and Samsung.
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And on the couple of occasions when Rodriguez has stayed southpaw for a while and thrown out a few of those low line side kicks to get the opponent biting on them, he's been able to score with the set ups.
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The one Nogueira twin who could box, 'Little Nog' used a flicking southpaw jab to draw out the big swings of his opponent, giving ground and returning with the left hand or catching them with the right hook as they followed.
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The 23-year-old southpaw is 289-25 with a 4.50 ERA, two strikeouts and no walks over two innings in two major-RHP Rick Porcello seeks his fifth straight win to start the season Saturday against the New York Yankees.
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Race, riot and a fight between two southpaw boxers in the peak of their prime, the middleweight championship between England's Alan Minter and Marvin Hagler of the USA in September 2000 was a politically incorrect sporting contest that had it all.
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Hypothetically speaking, if McGregor was getting ready to fight one of the greatest proponents in the history of boxing, Mayweather, who is an orthodox fighter, why would he draft in the services of former IBO welterweight champion van Heerden, a southpaw?
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Southpaw Pacquiao (57-6-2) has won world titles in eight different weight classes during a stellar 20-year career but Bradley is confident that he and Atlas have established a winning strategy for the April 9 showdown in Las Vegas.
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The 23-year-old southpaw Rodriguez allowed a run and struck out seven in seven innings, throwing 102 pitches (69 strikes), in his latest rehab start for Triple-A Pawtucket on Tuesday and is scheduled to make another this weekend.
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Stepping outside his opponent's lead leg, the southpaw will wheel around—often with a cuffing right hook over the top of the head—and hammer in a left hook or uppercut under the heart as the opponent turns to face him.
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Now, in 2019, it&aposs got a distinctive American flavor with the Texan technician Charlo, the Brooklyn boxer Danny Jacobs, and the Providence southpaw Demetrius Andrade all ranked in the boxing record keeper Boxrec&aposs top five middleweights in the world.
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But the kick could also be used in combination, Whittaker would step down into a southpaw stance off the kick and chuck an overhand left, or retract his foot and drop into his sprinter's stance in order to throw his lethal left hook.
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As Lawler's favorite counter punch has always been the southpaw right hook Woodley might want to have spent the time in camp working on keeping that left hand up and closing the door with the left hook or jab at every opportunity.
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The record-setting southpaw figures to benefit from more run support in 2016 and looks to take advantage of it beginning Monday when the retooled White Sox travel to Oakland on Opening Day to start a four-game set with the Athletics.
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Professional boxer Victor Ortiz, who appeared on Dancing with the Stars as well as films The Expendables 3 and Southpaw, has turned himself in to authorities for allegedly raping a woman in March, the Oxnard Police Department confirmed in a news release.
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Switching from orthodox to southpaw and back again, Saki looked to land single shots and displayed none of the multi-punch combinations-into-low-kicks that many fans would expect to see when a world champion, Dutch-trained kickboxer enters the cage.
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Jedrzejczyk attempted to time the crouching Andrade coming in, attempted to flick them in after the jab, and even used the left low kick to step back into a southpaw stance and then attempt a long left high kick from her new stance.
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Moreover, "standard" reliever usage takes no account of matchups: if three consecutive lefties are scheduled to bat with the game on the line, a southpaw reliever who specialises in retiring same-handed hitters might be a wiser choice than a right-handed closer.
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Always meticulous in his preparations, it is unlikely that Mayweather has ever faced a southpaw with McGregor's power and style of movement before, and unlike his previous 49 opponents, there is little or no footage of McGregor sparring for him to study.
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Southpaw 101 is to take the outside angle with the lead foot and shoot the straight down the center, getting the head outside of the opponent's lead shoulder in order to make it harder to hit and make the exchange an unfair one.
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Clayton Kershaw — the same southpaw who decimated National League lineups this spring with six consecutive starts of 10-plus strikeouts, the same bundle of sheer willpower and deadly curveballs that struck out 150 batters while walking just nine — broke down in June.
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But, it was largely a boxing match which looked more like an exhibition fight, with Ward taking the liberty to switch from orthodox to southpaw and back again while nailing Brand with hooks to the body and the head with both hands.
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I know what you're thinking: Just one year after seeing Michael B. Jordan and Jake Gyllenhaal climb into the ring in Creed and Southpaw, respectively, we're getting another boxing movie starring another young actor eager to prove himself by stepping between the ropes?
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Golovkin knocked Jacobs down in the fourth with a double dose of rights, but as the fight wore on Jacobs confused the Kazakh by sliding into a southpaw stance, scoring on stinging combinations, holding his own against the dangerous power of the champion.
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Cashman — the last general manager hired (and never fired) by Steinbrenner — made a stunning acquisition with his deal for the southpaw Chapman, who routinely hits 100 miles per hour on the radar gun, amazing to no less a flamethrower than Dellin Betances.
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In the first round, realizing that Holloway would follow with the double jab if he gave ground, Ortega shifted back from a southpaw stance into an orthodox one and cracked Holloway with a counter elbow similar to the one that wobbled Frankie Edgar.
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Rawlings troubled Ham with a right hand in the final two minutes of the first round, but other than that, the Korean enjoyed the better of the exchanges and had a lot of success with a jab-cross combination from her southpaw stance.
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Another favorite his using a lead leg low kick to pick up his opponent's lead leg (as Saenchai is a southpaw he often finds himself in Open Guard, against orthodox fighters) and follow with a high round kick to the off balanced opponent.
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There is only so much footage available of Reyes because he keeps being scheduled to fight fifteen minutes and refuses to fight for even two but if you want the low down on his ability here it is: the southpaw double attack.
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The best southpaw double attack above middleweight belonged to Cro Cop and it (combined with a nice counter left straight from the open side angle) was pretty much all he needed to be the scariest striker in MMA for a very long time.
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McGregor and his team have since campaigned for an immediate rematch, which Nurmagomedov is loath to grant him — he challenged the southpaw puncher to return to the sport of mixed martial arts and win a bout before fighting for the lightweight title.
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What his players did know, or had been told, was that four years later, Mullin was at the Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, alongside Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and Larry Bird, cranking out textbook southpaw jump shots for the one and only Dream Team.
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LHP David Price threw his first bullpen session Monday since the last day of February, and manager John Farrell said it went well, though it is still going to be a long time before the southpaw returns to pitching a major league game.
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Obviously if he fights southpaw against Till that lead leg hook kick becomes a lot higher risk and a lot lower reward—with Till being a turn of the shoulders or a duck below the shoulder line away from the kick being worthless.
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Overeem has reinvented himself more times than anyone in the heavyweight division and his new focus on fighting from a southpaw stance—where this was more of an occasional gimmick in his K-1 and early UFC days—showed its value throughout this bout.
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As we mentioned in our Tactical Guide last week, Dos Santos circled out to his left in a southpaw stance behind his right shoulder a lot in the original fight, but his left hand was always low and he ate blows from that side.
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Canelo Alvarez had a great deal of trouble cutting the ring when forced to play the aggressor against the slick southpaw Erislandy Lara (a fight which would Danny Jacobs versus Canelo Alvarez particularly interesting), but Golovkin has never had much trouble forcing the action.
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The New York Yankees will counter ace left-hander Chris Sale with a southpaw of their own, sending J.A. Happ to the mound against the Red Sox for Game 226 of the teams' American League Division Series on Friday night at Fenway Park in Boston.
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Photo via Instagram Liverpool's Tony "Bomber" Bellew realised his dream on Sunday night when he defeated Congolese southpaw Ilunga Makabu with a devastating third-round knockout at Goodison Park—the home of his beloved Everton Football Club—to win the vacant WBC cruiserweight title.
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Hearn reacted to Wilder&aposs devastating knockout victory over the technically-adept Cuban southpaw in Las Vegas on Saturday, while travelling to London after his own combat sports show in Liverpool, England, on the same night Wilder made the 10th defense of his WBC championship.
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The second features an all-Russian world title fight, and the third includes a 6-foot-6 Chinese southpaw in Zhang who could open up massive events at the 80,000 capacity Beijing National Stadium or the gambling hotbed of Macau, in China, Hearn told us.
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As we previously reported, Ortiz -- who appeared in movies like 'Expendables 3' and "Southpaw" -- was arrested last month and charged with forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and forcible digital penetration for an alleged incident that went down in an Oxnard, CA home on March 19.
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With Henry Aaron's three-run homer off Roger Craig supplying the crusher in the third, and the 23-year-old southpaw Denny Lemaster striking out 10 Mets, this was just another night in a long series of sorry nights for the first-year club.
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Sure, he was just the pop-oriented Southern hook, but, like Joe had already seen, that was the direction things were headed: "Change your style up, switch to southpaw," he encourages in that second verse, adding onto the idea of everyone being mad at the South.
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What allowed Weidman to get the better of the savvy southpaw counter strikers Anderson Silva and Lyoto Machida was his patience and his pressure—yet against Yoel Romero and Gegard Mousasi, Weidman rapidly went from slick boxer-wrestler to mouth breathing and swinging awkwardly between sloppy shots.
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Niese, acquired by the Pittsburgh Pirates in an offseason deal with the New York Mets, checked Detroit on five hits over six innings Monday to help the Pirates take a 2111-210 decision from the Tigers, who lost their second straight game to a softer-tossing southpaw.
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"I used to be more of a clinching of fighter, but when I moved to Fairtex about 12 years ago, my trainer and manager decided to improve and change my skills," says the Thai superstar, who was also encouraged early on to switch from orthodox to southpaw.
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Brook's TKO wins over Kevin Bizier and Frankie Gavin were stopped mid-round, and the figures from his 2015 win over Ionut Dan Ion suffered only because he had to wait for the Romanian southpaw to pick himself up off the canvas four times in four rounds.
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Holm being a fellow southpaw means that where the wheel kicks and backfists would have to approach through the shoulder of an orthodox fighter, they will now come in on Holm's rear hand side without the durable surface of the shoulder and back getting in the way.
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Pep's favorite strategy was to leave his stance and side skip to his left, turning his opponent before he bounded back in off of his left foot into a southpaw stance and connected a left straight to the face or uppercut to the body depending on distance.
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Next, it would be interesting to combine these two findings and see if there is some time pressure threshold beyond which it would be exceedingly difficult for players to train against the southpaw edge — some threshold "beyond which being rare really pays off," he said. Opinion
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His name is Andy Hiraoka, and he's a 20-year-old, half-Ghanaian, half-Japanese junior-welterweight southpaw who turned pro at 17, won some matches in Japan, and then put his competitive career on hold for two years to hone his game in the Mayweather gym in Vegas.
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Rawlings Grinds Out Ham at Home It might not have been the 30-27 that two judges scored it, but 'Rowdy' Bec Rawlings' gutsy performance in front of her home crowd certainly won her the nod against slick southpaw Seo Hee Ham to kick off tonight's main card.
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And here T.J. Dillashaw demonstrates an attack from the same angle as Pep's favourite left straight, but rather than circling out onto it, he uses a faked overhand to jump out and switch into southpaw stance, before coming in on that forty-five degree angle between Barao's legs.
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There might not be a need to overcomplicate this fight for Rodriguez, if he is confident enough to kick comfortably the simple southpaw double attack of left body kick and left high kick could well be enough to work over Edgar and eventually land a flush high kick.
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Till has shown an understanding of feints to go along with his pressure, constantly pumping his left shoulder and hip, and while he rarely uses his jab as much as he should, let alone shows a double, it will certainly come in handy—especially when Thompson is southpaw.
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EditorsNote: Fixed Beede's line to six runs (five earned) in final graf Jason Vargas continued his unlikely resurgence Wednesday night, when the 26.32-year-old southpaw tossed his eighth career shutout to lead the host New York Mets to a 223-20183 win over the San Francisco Giants.
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Most people kick hardest with their right leg but the only way to line up the side kick off that leg seems to be standing in a bladed, southpaw stance—that's a long way from the more square on, orthodox stance most will rely on for the rest of their game.
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But the intention of changing stances is to try to catch the opponent before he makes the mental adjustment to the different dynamic, and a fighter can do just as much damage to his own chances if the opponent sets to work on the tactics of Anti-Southpaw 101 immediately.
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As Jones' favorite one-size-fits-all range keeper is either the right leg oblique kick from an orthodox stance, or the right leg low line side kick from a southpaw stance, it will be interesting to see if Jones is anywhere near as good jamming the advances with his left.
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Pacquiao's southpaw stance and strict conformity to the pattern of offense—entering on an angle, leaving on an angle, and never doing so without moving his head—has meant that the more aggressively an opponent follows him, the more he can land his blistering combinations and weave out the side door.
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The Old Southpaw Double Attack This writer's thoughts from the signing of the fight were that it would be interesting to see how Vannata's rapid advances and weaves worked against Teymur's old school Cro Cop style, circling out to the left and hammering in left round kicks and left straights when possible.
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But even in this realm, the southpaw advantage may vary, being more pronounced in sports where a player has less time to react to an opponent, like table tennis, according to Florian Loffing, a sports scientist at the University of Oldenburg in Germany and author of a study published Wednesday in Biology Letters.
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None is as tough right now as "Tank" Davis, a two-weight world champion southpaw who has proven to be a bona fide ticket-seller in Baltimore, as well as Atlanta, and is a fighter who will soon be headlining his own pay-per-view shows on the Viacom-CBS owned broadcaster Showtime.
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As a southpaw Till should have had to contend with Cerrone's lead hand when jabbing, but through good handfighting, feints, and dropping his lead hand below Cerrone's vision, Till could sneak through crisp jabs that drew flinches and overreactions from Cerrone in the later going, and raised his head for the left straight in combination.
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Like a 6-foot-6 cornerback stalking his prey, Ginobili sniffed out a pass to Phoenix's Mirza Teletovic, wrestled the ball away and fell onto his back, but he still had the court vision and body control to rifle a perfect southpaw pass upcourt to Kawhi Leonard for a layup ahead of three trailing Suns.
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Lyoto Machida prefers to fight out of the southpaw stance for the majority of his time in the cage, and this means that he can check or parry the lead hand, step to the outside of the lead foot, or lean his head out the window to place himself away from his opponent's other hand.
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These included Willie Pep's go-to set up, circling from an orthodox stance out to the left, before rebounding in with a southpaw left straight, and side stepping into the other stance in order to set up a back kick which just wouldn't exist from his original stance, that's how you make the most of a stance shift.
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Walmart is the only retail sponsor of the Oscars, and it has worked with Hollywood directors Antoine Fuqua ( "Southpaw") and Marc Forster ("Monster's Ball") and "Superbad" creators Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg to produce one-minute films based on six items on a Walmart receipt: bananas, batteries, paper towels, a scooter, wrapping paper and a video baby monitor.
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Red Carpet Watch 7 Photos View Slide Show ' Rachel McAdams, 37, is perhaps best known for her lead roles in lighthearted films like "Mean Girls" and "The Notebook," yet she's tackled meatier fare recently: as a boxer's doomed wife in "Southpaw" and a hard-hitting reporter in "Spotlight," for which she has been nominated for her first Academy Award.
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Lyoto likes to fight southpaw more than orthodox, leaning 'out the window' when he throws his reverse punch to thread it down the centreline: Chinzo prefers to fight orthodox, which means against an orthodox opponent he will use the inside parry or hand trap to clear the line from his right shoulder to his opponent's chin.
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The young southpaw, who is expected to be a factor out of the HarbourCats' bullpen all summer, is especially known for her knuckleball—which is closer to a knuckle-curve according to her coach with the Canadian National Women's Team—and said she used the pitch between six and eight times throughout her two-inning debut.
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It was Ray's turn one day later, however, as the young southpaw allowed one hit and struck out a career-high 13 over seven frames en route to a 2-1 win for Arizona, although San Diego's Patrick Kivlehan also made a name for himself by clubbing a long home run in his big-league debut.
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For a classically trained fighter like Barao, this is a whole new world to deal with: Or in lateral motion as in the Pep Step above, and here in Dominick Cruz's pivoting uppercut to his right, stepping through to an orthodox stance before changing direction with an orthodox right straight, carrying him back through the other way into a southpaw stance.
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One factor that has the potential to make this hypothetical match up a lot of fun for the viewer (though not so much for the men involved) is that Rockhold is a southpaw who loves body kicks, Werdum is an orthodox fighter who loves body kicks Both Werdum and Rockhold rely heavily on draining and winding their opponents with body work.
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EditorsNote: Notes in lead Braves scored 6 runs in 1st; clarifies in Graf 3 Freeman hit on foot in 2nd; clarifies in Graf 5 Lopez's stats in 1st; other minor edits Atlanta southpaw Dallas Keuchel won his third straight start and highlighted a six-run first inning with a two-run single to send the Braves to an 53-5 win over the visiting Chicago White Sox on Saturday.
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Whether it was picking up on Mario Navarro's tendency to duck each time Chinzo showed a feint, and capitalizing with an uppercut—not really a competition karate weapon... Or, after throwing dozens of right leg front kicks at the southpaw Brian Wood and being forced to fight off one leg when Wood caught it and dived for a single leg takedown, Chinzo decided a nice air-hiking knee would work a treat.
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He's running as a member of the Liberty Union Party, a "nonviolent socialist party" whose platform includes: The lefty politics befit the quirky southpaw known for his "Leephus" pitch, a fondness for grass of the smokable kind, and being the subject of a Warren Zevon song, to say nothing of a 14-year MLB career that saw him go 119-90 for the Red Sox and the Expos with a lone All-Star appearance in 1973.
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It's not a tremendous punch (though any jab to the solar plexus is worth far more for its target than its strength) but an orthodox fighter performing the drop shift will be able to sneak his right foot outside of his opponent's left as he enters the southpaw stance, perfectly lining up the left high kick, a second left straight (a la Manny Pacquiao) or a continued combination from the new stance and a dominant angle.
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But that would ignore the outsized circumstances informing Simpson's life: the father murdered before he reached kindergarten; the coach who inspired a character on HBO's The Wire; the 181-3 combined record and the half-dozen National Silver Gloves titles; the praise from Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Heading into his senior year of high school, 2016-year-old Simpson is the top-ranked 165-pound fighter in the country, a hard-hitting southpaw with an eye on the 2020 Olympic team.
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Read more:Dan Bilzerian lost a monstrous pile of cash betting against Conor McGregorA 21-year-old American&aposs dream of becoming the UFC&aposs youngest-ever champion was crushed by a classy flyweight veteran in a brutal and bloody winHow Conor McGregor went from Dublin plumber to the king of combat sportsAn American southpaw knocked his UFC opponent down with a crafty left hand, held him down with one fist, then punched him 11 times while he lay defenseless on the canvasPhotos show how Conor McGregor&aposs body has drastically changed as he&aposs accelerated through the UFC
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Read more:A 21-year-old American&aposs dream of becoming the UFC&aposs youngest-ever champion was crushed by a classy flyweight veteran in a brutal and bloody winAn American southpaw knocked his UFC opponent down with a crafty left hand, held him down with one fist, then punched him 11 times while he lay defenseless on the canvasConor McGregor has adjusted his training as he&aposs learned from the mistakes made before, during, and after his spectacular failure against Khabib NurmagomedovPhotos show how Conor McGregor&aposs body has drastically changed as he&aposs accelerated through the UFC
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