What were your scores for these Sven Ottke fights?

i had ottke winning them all bar the brewer 1 fight and the reid fight.

but i have said it many times, ottke new the scorecards during the fights and new if he could take his foot of the gas and take no risks, which he did.

 

It's really sad to see that Ottke is ranked above Hopkins on the all time title defense record list. Imagine if he got some more fights in before retiring in Germany and broke Joe Louis' record. It would make the record a complete joke. The most pathetic thing is that Germans cheer for him every single time after the match, even when they know he robbed the challenger of a win and they act like it doesn't matter.

 

Ottke was an absolute joke. Calzaghe would have absolutely destroyed him. Worse than the Jeff Lacy beating, it would literally be like a professional fighter fighting someone randomly off the streets in the ring.

The fact that he knocked out Mundine tho lol haha.

 

no he made his fights much more boring than they should have been.

in the larson fight for example ottke never threw a punch in the last round , because he new the scorecards.

i love the sport of boxing, but do not find that acceptable in this sport.

 

you guys forgot the Mundine fight.i watched it live at ZDF the german channel and after non-puncher Ottke knocked out Mundine cold he gave an interview at 30 metres from the ring with his gloves still on!!!!!!
The only thing is,the fight was already over for 20 minutes.
Joey Gatti was also knocked out by Ottke and suffered a minor brainbleeding.
He accused Sven later of loaded gloves...

 

Yet to think Mundine was KO'ed by this dude!:rofl

 

They would of DQ'ed Joe for knocking that guy out!:twisted:

 

You gotta make money somehow.

Sven Ottke was a sure bet.

 

I saw Reid-Ottke on the BBC, that got me so angry...I haven't been that pissed off at a result since the Lewis-Holyfield I 'draw' years before, although at least with Reid-Ottke it wasn't as much of a surprise because you could see so early on how much the ref was pulling for Ottke.

That bit where Reid hit Ottke with a right hook, around the 4th or 5th round, and then the ref stepped right in and told him off...I knew it was never going to be a victory. The knockdown fiasco later was just a further kick in the mouth. Absolutely abysmal.

Reid did fade a bit over the last four rounds or so, after the 'knockdown that never was', but then I don't think his heart was in it anymore.

 

Agreed, those 2 were pretty much universally accepted losses for Ottke, just like Holy-Lewis I is a universally accepted W for Lewis. You have to concede then that the Calzaghe-Reid fight was one that could have gone either way as well, fair is fair (though it wasn't a universally accepted L for either fighter, going by public opinion).

 

These are actually pretty accurate. I was an Ottke fan, respected what he did in terms of great technique, balance, and downright craftiness against guys against whom he was at great physical disadvantage.

I think Ottke won all of these except Brewer I (and that was close 115-113 Brewer) and Reid.

The Larsen fight could've been a draw, tough to score. Ottke clearly beat the other guys.

Try watching it again. Ottke outboxed him over the majority of that fight. Mitchell had him going in the 12th though. No way Mitchell deserved that decision.

The other thing about Ottke decisions. Look at the judges, often the neutral judges, even the Americans, had him winning. The "German judging" thing is way overblown.

 

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How exactly did you find Glen Johnson and Byron Mitchell beating Ottke??

Oh, and Calzaghe clearly beat him.

 

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