Prime Sven Ottke vs. S.O.G. Andre Ward

In Germany.
Who you got?
:huh

 

The officiating was horrible in some fights, especially Reid, no doubt.
But I think it's unfair to reduce Ottke to that.
He was very fast and durable, high workrate, not easy to hit, and he had a great amateur career.
He also retired with a perfect record.
I think he is quite underrated and I don't think it would be a walk in the park for Ward, especially in Germany, even without utterly bad officiating and biased judging.
I still think Ward would take it though.
But it would be interesting to see him out of his comfortzone, that's why I also like the idea of a Ward-Groves fight in England.

 

The fight was a joke, everybody knows it, it has been discussed to death.

But looking at Ottkes amateur resume, holding wins over the likes of Tarver, Moorer, Byrd, Michaelczewski, Erdei, Gomez etc. and in the pros legit ones over Mundine, Branco, somewhat disputable decisions like Brewer, Johnson etc., I refuse to see him as the overprotected corrupt bum people make him out to be.

Most of the "robberies" where in fact rather close decisions that just went his way, but once you have the reputation...
Reid and Mitchell were the only legit robberies in my eyes, the rest is being blown way out of proportion imo.

Not fighting Beyer and especially Calzaghe hurts his resume, no doubt.

By the way, how many debateable decisions did Chris Eubank win, just as an example?
I don't see him getting half the **** around here Ottke gets for his highway-robberies.

 

I don't see Lacy or Bute beating Ottke, sorry.
Taylor, Bika and Dirrell are at the very least debateable also in my eyes.

Edit: Roy Jones Jr. might have also been gifted enough to edge out a close one over Sven