Sven Ottke award

Andre Ward is basically a bootleg Ottke

Look at the kind of company The Phantom kept

Amateur

Michael Moorer - WBO LHW champion, WBA, IBF, WBO HW champ

Henry Maske - Olympic gold medalist, world amateur gold medalist, European gold medalist x 3, long reigning IBF LHW champ

Ariel Hernandez - 2 x Olympic gold medalist, world amateur gold medalist x 2 & 1 x silver

Alexander Lebziak - Olympic gold medalist, world amateur gold & silver medalist, European gold medalist x 2, silver x 1, bronze x 2

Chris Byrd - Olympic silver medalist, WBO & IBF HW champion

Zsolt Erdei - world amateur gold medalist, Olympic bronze medalist, European gold medalist x 2 & silver x 1, long reigning WBO LHW champ, WBC CW champ

Torsten May - Olympic gold medalist, world amateur gold medalist

Vassiliy Jirov - Olympic gold medalist, 2 x world amateur bronze medalist, IBF CW champion

Juan Carlos Gomez - long reigning WBC CW champ, world junior champion as an amateur

Antonio Tarver - world amateur gold medalist, Olympic bronze, WBC, IBF, WBA LHW champ

Angel Espinosa - world amateur gold and silver medalist

Sinan Samil Sam - world amateur gold and bronze medalist, European bronze and silver medalist, world junior gold medalist, European HW champion

Andrey Kurniavka - world amateur gold and silver medalist, European bronze medalist

Ramon Garbey - world amateur gold & bronze medalist

Torsten Schmitz - world amateur silver medalist 2 x bronze, European silver medalist

Egerton Marcus - Olympic silver medalist

Thomas Ulrich - Olympic bronze medalist, world amateur bronze medalist, world junior silver medalist, European LHW champ

Rostislav Zaulichnyy - world amateur bronze medalist, 2 x European bronze medalist, gold medalist at the world cup

Chris Johnson - Olympic bronze medalist, world amateur bronze medalist

Henryk Petrich - Olympic bronze medalist

Rhoshii Wells - Olympic bronze medalist

Jean-Paul Mendy - world amateur bronze medalist, 2 x European bronze

Fought Moorer x 2
Ariel Hernandez x 4
Lebziak x 4
Maske x 2 (think it was even more times than that)
Tarver x 2
Torsten May x 2
Tortsen Schmitz x 2
Garbey x 2
Mendy x 2
Chris Johnson x 3


Unified champion, made 21 world title defences, retired undefeated and beat seven world champions. He didn't even turn pro till he was 29 and he won his first world title in his 13th fight

Pro


Brewer 35-6
Mitchell 25-1-1
Branco 40-4-2
Reid 36-3-1
Glen Johnson 36-3
Mundine 10-0
Krajnc 29-2
Starie 33-3
James Butler 18-1
Larsen 43-1
Markussen 27-0
Tate 36-5


Ottke's trainer Ulli Wegner has trained among others

Punchers like


Arthur Abraham
Alexander Frenkel
Robert Helenius
Marco Huck
Yoan Pablo Hernandez
Mads Larsen

BEST DEFENSE
Sven Ottke: He had the most important asset to be not just a good- but a world-class operator inside the ring — anticipation. He knew where to move to not to get hit. That’s why he got named “Phantom.”

BEST CHIN
Ottke: That’s hard to say. I always trained and still train my boxers to hit and not to get hit. To answer this question in another way — I was worried the least when Sven Ottke stepped into the ring.

FASTEST HANDS
Ottke: Ottke is naturally gifted.

FASTEST FEET
Ottke: One of the most evasive fighters I have ever seen.

SMARTEST
Ottke: Ottke was the smartest to effectively implement tactics inside the ring. Abraham is clever analyzing strengths and weaknesses of his opponent inside the ring. The problem is that he is not always focused and doesn’t bother about every foe. That’s when he gets problems. He tends to underestimate opponents.

And last but by no means least

BEST PUNCHER
Ottke: You might laugh about my next statement but the truth is that Sven Ottke was the hardest puncher. The problem was that due to his style and his ring intelligence, he couldn’t or didn’t want to open up to showcase it. You could see it once, when he had to go for broke versus (Anthony) Mundine. Otherwise, Arthur Abraham has one hell of a punch

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