For those unaware, “southpaw” is a term in combat sports that references the opposite of an orthodox stance, where a person operates with their right foot forward – thereby making their left side the power side by default.
The term originated in 19th-century baseball, where the word ‘southpaw’ was used to cite everyone from left-handed pitchers to first basemen alike. It would soon be applied to other sports like boxing, where it was used sparsely up until the 1950s to describe lefties.
