He is southpaw and was born in the village of Qulkhatib of Vabkent District of Bukhara Province.
Shortly before the 2002 season Oakland traded Laird to the Texas Rangers along with outfielder Ryan Ludwick, Jason Hart and Mario Ramos, for slugging first baseman Carlos Peña and southpaw relief pitcher Mike Venafro.
A southpaw, Hernandez turned professional on December 16, 2006, winning a four round decision over Eduardo Adorno at the Miccosukee Indian Gaming Resort in Miami, Florida.
In Rio at the PanAm Games main event he bested US southpaw Adam Willett 12:8 and Jorge Quiñones from Ecuador but was beaten in the final once again by Acosta.
That same year he recaptured the WBA Light Middleweight Title by beating fellow southpaw Carl Daniels whom he knocked out with a single straight left after trailing badly on points.
The southpaw won bronze at lightweight in 2005 losing to eventual Cuban winner Yordenis Ugás.
He represents Philippines at the 2012 Summer Olympics, having qualified for the Olympics after reaching quarterfinals of the 2011 World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, He is a southpaw.
Johnson lost to Matthew Saad Muhammad and Lottie Mwale in the build-up but won a world title—the WBC light heavyweight version—from fellow southpaw Mate Parlov of Yugoslavia with a 10th-round KO in Italy in December 1978, then lost that same title the following April, in front of his hometown Indianapolis fans, in a rematch to Muhammad in what was perhaps 1979's Fight of the Year for many observers.
In a close fight, Moorer was able to gain the victory by majority decision, becoming the first southpaw to win a major heavyweight championship in the process.
After moving to Sacramento, California in 2002, Cody attended California State University, Sacramento, and formed the group Another Single Day (originally named "Southpaw"), with Casey Fowler and John Marshall.
Francisco Palacios is traditionally an orthodox, but occasionally switches to a southpaw stance to confuse his opponent at times.
After the previous fight between the two in which Holyfield was able to regain the WBA, IBF and Lineal heavyweight titles by defeating Bowe via majority decision, Holyfield would face undefeated southpaw Michael Moorer in his first defense.
On August 29, 1981, he would win the WBC Super featherweight title by knocking out popular fellow southpaw Cornelius Boza Edwards in the 5th round of a title match held in Italy.
The southpaw won Bronze 1999 in Houston when he had to quit with an injury in his fight against eventual winner Michael Bennett