Orthodox Boxer Stance. Conversely a southpaw boxer is someone who is naturally left handed and leads with the right hand and right leg. Dmitriy salita is a russian immigrant professional boxer and a religious jew.
Some famous boxers who use southpaw are marvelous marvin hagler tyson fury victor ortiz sultan ibragimov naseem hamed joe calzaghe manny pacquiao and lucian bute. The southpaw stance is when a naturally left handed boxer uses the right hand as the lead punch or the jab with the straight left hand as the obvious power shot. It is mostly used by right handed boxers.
It is the most commonly used stance in boxing.
An orthodox boxer is someone who is naturally right handed and holds the left hand and left leg in front closer to the opponent. The orthodox stance is much more common. In combat sports such as boxing an orthodox stance is one in which the boxer places their left foot farther in front of the right foot thus having their weaker side closer to the opponent. Since most boxers place their dominant food at the rear this stance is common to right handed fighters.
