Well, Castillejo, Griffin and Sylvester are all good scalps. He get´s protected from Abraham that´s true but aside from that he isn´t pretected.
A lot of fighters here from germany are protected like Valuev, Chagaev, Dimitrenko, Zsolt Erdei, Juergen Braehmer, Denis Inkin, Sturm,
:huh I wouldn´t call Valuev, Chagaev or Sturm protected. Erdei fought some good names but isn´t markatable so he does not get good fights. Dimitrenko is very protected, Braehmer and Inkin are also protected to some degree but not like Dimitrenko.
Firstly, learn to spell names right. Secondly, learn to think for yourself instead of buying into myths. Third, Ottke was not protected, he fought the best the division had to offer with the exception of Calzaghe and stablemate Beyer and he unified. That´s hardly beeing protected.
rightly or wrongly, at the begining of the milennium, DM was thought by many american fans to be protected