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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. Because it favors
the stronger, dominant side—often the right side, see laterality—the orthodox stance is the most
common stance in boxing and MMA. It is mostly used by right-handed boxers. Many boxing champions,
such as Jack Johnson, Anthony Joshua, Deontay Wilder, Marco Antonio Barrera, Evander
Holyfield, Rocky Marciano, Ingmar Johansson, Roberto Durán, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Sugar Ray
Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Amir Khan, Jay Bobby, Johnny Tapia, Mike Tyson, Larry Holmes, Lennox
Lewis, Joseph Parker, Kubrat Pulev, Vitali Klitschko, Wladimir Klitschko, Maguila, Canelo
Álvarez, Tyson Fury and Teófimo López have fought in an orthodox stance.

The corresponding designation for a left-handed boxer is southpaw and is generally a mirror image of
the orthodox stance. A southpaw boxer guards and jabs with their right hand. Some famous boxers who
use southpaw are Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Victor Ortiz, Sultan Ibragimov, Naseem Hamed, Joe
Calzaghe, Manny Pacquiao, and Lucian Bute. Francisco Palacios, Andre Ward, and Terence
Crawford normally fight as orthodox, but occasionally switch to a southpaw stance to confuse their
opponents. Hagler was the opposite, normally fighting southpaw but able to switch to orthodox. Some
fighters who are naturally left-handed fight in the orthodox stance with the advantage of a fast, hard jab
and left hook, including Oscar De La Hoya, Sonny Liston, Miguel Angel Cotto, Gerry Cooney,
and Marco Antonio Barrera. Likewise, Vasyl Lomachenko is a naturally right-handed fighter who stands
in the southpaw stance