To be fair to Mundine for someone who only had 10 pro fights he was doing very well up until the round of the stoppage. From memory it would have been fairly close on points at that stage and you could have made a case that Anthony was even ahead on points. Ottke was definately coming on strong at that stage and i believe Ottke would have deserved the decision if Anthony wasn't KTFO.
I think many of us were going for Mundine that day. I remember watching the fight with my brother and another mate at Scruffy Murphy's (the dirty **** hole of a pub in the city). I got there early when the **** heads were still out from the night before. It's a bit hard to fathom how a guy who fought Ottke in his 11th fight is now fighting the stiffs that he is.
Ottke was a stiff himself, he is very lucky he never got in the ring with Joe. It would have been messy. Peak for peak Mundine could bash him.
While he was lucky he didn't fight Joe, he's not a stiff by any stretch. Anyone who beats Michael Moorer, Antonio Tarver and Chris Byrd as an amateur, partially unifies a division and has the likes of Mundine, Tate, Glengoffe Johnson, Charles Brewer etc on his resume can fight.
He is very lucky to have such great names on his amateur resume, imo he is also lucky he never fought them at the height of their powers. Stiff is harsh, lets just say B grade great or am i underrating just how well a novice Mundine fought