lol @ a boxer changing his style so quickly

It's because this is an unauthorized reboot of the Rocky movies, i.e., a shameless ripoff. In Rocky II, Mick had Rocky, who is a southpaw, fight Apollo as a right-handed fighter, and he only had about 10 weeks to train him to do so. Here's what Muhammad Ali had to say about that:

Mickey was giving Rocky advice: "We got to get you fighting with your other hand. Use your right, save your left, protect that bad eye..."

"It just maybe could be," Ali said, "that if you started on a kid at seventeen or eighteen, by the time he was twenty-two you could change the hand he leads with. But not overnight it can't be done."

And of course, Rocky was also a "face first brawler with zero defense", and in Rocky III, Apollo Creed trained him, in a matter of weeks, to fight like himself, and in his rematch with Clubber Lang, he cleanly dodged nearly every one of Lang's punches in the first round, and kept hitting him with a series of jabs followed by a cross or a hook, which was nothing like his established fighting style.

In this movie they just combined the "switching handedness" from Rocky II (which is why the movie is called "Southpaw", because of his switch to southpaw), with the new defensive fighting style he learned in Rocky III.

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