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I was surprised to find Jimi Manuwa and Bisping are both left handed orthodox fighters. It made more sense afterwards when rewatching some of their fights.
You can see it worked for Jimi a lot. His fight with Corey Anderson caught Corey off guard with that powerful left hook. I think, as a fighter, you should study where your opponents dominant hand comes from.
Don't some fighters use both stances 50/50? TJ Dillashaw seems comfortable in both almost like he is ambi-dextrous.
I'm a left handed orthodox fighter. I like the ferocity I can put in a leading jab. I rely on torque and hip movements to put power into an overhand right in orthodox. I also feel an uppercut from the strong hand is better if coming from the lead.
Darren Till? No idea. He comes across like a natural southpaw.
Lol left handed orthodox is ever been the harder to figure out to me
I mean, southpaws are evil and should be killed, but at least when you fight one you know you have to adapt
Be it a right handed that fight like a fencer or one of these left handed motherfuckers
You're like yeah, let me figure it out how to punch this dude skull
But with left handed orthodox you start assuming it's going to be a "normal" situation, then the dude got hard af jabs LOL
Add that the lead game of an orthodox feel less dangerous, wich only open to get punished more lol
And the rear being used less takes you more try to understand if he got his best hand leading or if he's just that powerful overall
Last but not last trap/suffocate his dominant arm work much much less than vs a right h southpaw, because you engage your left with his left (so it's oblique instead frontal) and you can't unleash your right on his skull(wich was the point to begin with) well because his head is positioned all on your left, far away from your right
At the end you end up try to impose a rear hands war, but works strange having to worry about heavy jabs, it become a lot like parry bomb parry bomb lol