Well Sven obviously thought they were "boxing" in terms of seeing who could box up the most office supplies while being handicapped by wearing boxing gloves. Then idiot Reid starts hitting him.atsch Even after Sven invites him to his hometown for it. For shame :verysad
In the sense that it was bad, no. In the sense of it having anything to do with Germany, no, as it was in Spain.
I havent seen the fight in full since BITD. The ref was surely friendly to Ottke but it gets way overblown. I had it a close fight, but I dont recall a score. I could see Ottke winning it as he came on strong late as I recall the fight. I hated Ottke as much as anybody outside Germany and wanted to see him KTFO, but there's no denying his defensive skills and elusiveness.
It did make me quite angry at the time. Not on the same level as 'Agbeko gets wallopped square in the balls, goes down and the ref starts the count' angry, but yeah I was pretty unimpressed.
What often gets overlooked in that cesspool of corruption is that Coggi showed amazing heart to battle back from the brink, and that it was a helluva back and forth brawl. Admittedly that's like saying that if you forget about the part where they get crushed and die painfully, shoving someone in front of a bus is an excellent way to test the validity of Einstein's Mass-Velocity equation. Still, the third round of that fight is one of the most dramatic in boxing history. At least when Coggi bought the ref he had the decency to leave his chin out to dry and get coldcocked to make it interesting. It's easy to randomly deduct points from a fighter to shift the balance to the home guy. It takes a different level of creative corruption to shift the balance in your boy's favour when he's lying semi-conscious and quivering at your feet. It's probably little consolation to Gonzalez, but as a result of the fight he will be remembered long after he would have been had the fight been stopped after the first knockdown.