Really good retrospective on Sven Ottke's career

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  1. Presenting-Fight-Film

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    The undefeated champ
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    This was surprisingly a good breakdown of his career. However, his accomplishment of retiring undefeated with 21 defenses is diminished immensely by Joe Calzaghe fighting at the same exact time and doing the same exact thing. It’s a disservice that they didn’t fight and IMO that’s why neither could be ranked #1 all-time in that division.
     
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    Ottke VS Calzaghe should have happened.
     
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    Lesion of Doom Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Sorry, but that pathetic attempt to excuse the Reid fight discredits the entire video. No rational person could watch the first half of that fight and believe that it was fairly officiated.

    There's a reason it's the first fight most people think of when they are asked about referee corruption.
     
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    Jesus....the bloke's commentary on Ottke vs Reid is the greatest work of fiction since Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.
     
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  6. anjawnaymiz

    anjawnaymiz Can we get Ivan Dychko some momentum Full Member

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    Dr ottke would’ve ended up looking like one of his pizzas if he had fought calzaghe
     
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    Some of The Phantom's amateur foes

    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
     
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  8. anjawnaymiz

    anjawnaymiz Can we get Ivan Dychko some momentum Full Member

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    I remember him beating a prime Danny Williams. Was fun to watch Rip sinan
     
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  9. Serge

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    Yeah he was. Tough as nails too. Shame what happened to him.
     
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