Sven Ottke

The most frustrating thing about rating Ottke is that he is held in high regard by some people.

Even if you think he only lost to Reid and Mitchell, where does that put him in the grand scheme of things?

With two losses on his record to both those guys you'd be lucky to find anyone that rated him.

But that is essentially what happened.

 

pretty much...his list of recorded wins isn't that impressive. his list of real wins is even less so

 

I don't think he lost to Mitchell, and it's even arguable that (thanks to the refereeing!), he didn't lose to Reid. In any case, Ottke probably isn't underrated or overrated by the majority of boxing fans - he was a decent but ridiculously flawed fighter with a couple of superb attributes in his prime and legitimate ruler of the very weakest of weight-classes.

 

Good example of someone with a solid amateur background, hyped + protected in his own country, just because of his strong background + he never fought outside of Germany... He wasn't a bad fighter, but he shouldn't be regarded as the fighter blindly based on his record!!

 

He KO'd mundine plain & simple so you can't argue that one

 

A think mundine was a 10 fight veteran by the time he fought ottke to.....typical WBA rankings though a guess

the robin reid fight was one of the biggest robberies of the last 20 years

 

uhm, Ottke won the Mitchell fight clearly. If you scored that for Mitchell, you'll more than likely think he lost to Brewer twice, Larsen, & got a gift td against Tate.

 

In my oppinion the two he should have lost are to Robin Reid and Mads Larsen. There are many others that could have gone either way, but always went Ottke's way.