Former middleweight southpaw boxer Robbie Sims is Hagler's brother. The predominantly southpaw Londoner fights as a switch hitter. It's a much harder road for a southpaw than a right-handed boxer. As a result, he became the first-ever southpaw heavyweight champion. Manny Pacquiao is an example of a southpaw (although he writes with his right hand). For a left-handed boxer or southpaw, the hand positions are reversed. In 1982, he turned to boxing where he fought from a southpaw stance. In 1993 Smith lost to undefeated southpaw and #1 contender Michael Moorer. Hagler, a natural southpaw, opened the fight boxing out of an orthodox stance. Likewise, Vasyl Lomachenko is a naturally right-handed fighter who stands in the southpaw stance. This is a list of southpaw stance boxers. I thought I could get him with my jab in the southpaw stance. Moorer is naturally right-handed, but fought the entirety of his career as a southpaw. Southpaw Harrison landed one punch during the entire fight. Rocky Balboa fights as a southpaw (left-handed).