Yeah that whole home cooking thing has dogged both of those guys. Sucks because they both were really good fighters. Sven takes a lot of **** on here but as a former fighter he did a lot of things in the ring that impressed me. He was very smart and skilled. He did get a gift in the Ried fight for sure through.
Only home cooking I ever heard of Locche getting was against Carlos Ortiz. By all accounts Ortiz won clearly and got robbed with a draw. But that's the only home cooking I've heard. Back to Ottke, yeah he wasnt bad. But probably gets a bit tooooo much disrespect. Ottke was a very good technician. Ottke wasnt on the same planet as Locche though.
Im pretty sure Ive seen more of Locche than you or anyone else on this forum and yes, he was the beneficiary of home cooking. Sorry, but when you run, mug, and clown and do little actual fighting but still somehow get decisions over fighters who threw and landed five times as money punches then yes thats home cooking. The guy fought outside of Argentina three times and lost two of those convincingly. The third was against Paul Fuji who was about as limited and ordinary a one trick pony as you could get. It says a lot about Fuji that he was stopped by a guy who only managed to do that over ten percent of his 136 opponents. I always laugh whenever that clip of Locche-Cervantes 1 comes up and people oooh and aaah at all of the slipping and ducking Locche does, meanwhile they ignore the fact that he hardly throws any punches (and by the way the scores on boxrec are wrong for that fight). Now, if you had actually seen the whole fight youd know that was how the entire fight played out. Him sticking his chin out, ducking, dodging, slipping, running, and throwing only the occasional punch. Any boxer can tell you how hard it is to fight a guy who isnt even trying to pretend to fight back much less stop him. Go watch Locche-Pruitt, robbery. Locche-Ortiz, robbery. Locche-Corpas, robbery. I could go on but the fact is Locche spent 95 percent of his fights at home showboating and trying to survive because he knew he wasnt going to lose.
