He's one of those guys who have been protected due to the potential financial losses to his country's boxing industry. He was East German so he pulled in a massive number of fans from his amatuer days. He was an above average boxer, but not a true world champion. If you want to see a truly cheating performance by a referee (as well as the judges) watch the Ottke Reid fight. SOme of the Ottke posts on You tube with 'highlights' of his best bits in 12 round fights last no more than a minute, a lot of the time they have to loop them. Any boxing fan worth his salt should remember his name so they can ridicule it if someone tries to place him in a 'best ever' debate. He has at least six fights where the decision could or should have gone the other way, but the Reid one is the most outrageous
My favorite commentry ever:
"Can Reid win the figh? YES. Is Reid winning the fight? YES. If Reid keeps doing what he is doing will he win the fight? NO not with THESE judges.
Watch the Reid fight on youtube, with and pay attention to the reffing in particular and tell me that Reid had a chance of winning. Ottke had a good amatuer record and was a good but not great fighter who through economics and politics was protected - he never fought Roy or Joe, two fighters that would either not needed the judges or would have beaten him so badly that a duff decision would have caused an international incident.
In the Brewer fight the US judge had it 116 110 in the first fight against 115 -112 for the two european judges WTF?????
i think 6 lost for sure is an exaggeration my point is many fighters get gift decisions and only fight out of their hometown so otkke is not the only one i dont see any chris john hate thread
Watch the Reid fight on youtube, with and pay attention to the reffing in particular and tell me that Reid had a chance of winning. Ottke had a good amatuer record and was a good but not great fighter who through economics and politics was protected - he never fought Roy or Joe, two fighters that would either not needed the judges or would have beaten him so badly that a duff decision would have caused an international incident.
He's took definetely lost, not just close fights, but quite one sided ass beatings to at least five.
Robin Reid
Mads Larsson
Byron Mitchell
Charles Brewer x2
that's 5 losses.
He then had from what I have seen he has a close decision loss to
David Starie. <--- I give him that maybe, because it was a close boring fight...maybe. But I thought he lost
And I haven't seen it. But I bet Glen Johnson beat him too.
That's 7 potentially. Fuck it. It could be more.
You can't compare Ottke to anyone. He is out on his own.
i dont see why all the hate against ottke is about its probably envy cuz the guy proved he could not be beaten
so what if he fights out of his hometown and gets gift decisions many fighters currently do that like chris john arthur abraham malignaggi mayweather
point is no one could ever knock him out and thats something to respect
I do actually agree, being impossible to knock out is impressive. Ottke is tough. He just doesn't deserve an unbeaten record, He's lost for sure at least 6 times. It isn't fair.
I could have a bet or just give you the points right now, less hassle.
lol, yeah just hand them over.
Man, I'm betting real money on that fight.
If somehow the bookies quite reasonably make the smaller, crappier, feather-fisted, ancient Ottke an underdog.
Ottke should step up to Heavy for his legacy defining knockout of Wlad. Ensured when Ottke's manager runs in the ring and knocks out Wlad with a brick, then along with a time delay on the 'live coverage' and a willing pro Ottke (silent) audience. Team Ottke through an intricate computer animated reconstruction can make it look like Sven released his 'Das Phantom Coma enhancer'.
he's hilarious.
The word Joke gets thrown around on these forums regarding certain boxers whom never are jokes usually or funny.
Ottke is hilarious. You have to admire how a man so average through blatant judge bribery, and referee nobbling has remained unbeaten. It is genius. The moment of disbelief on the faces of everyone come decision time is priceless, when you have seen a man beatdown for 12 rounds and emerge victorious. Everytime you were thinking they can't give it to him this time. Alas they did.
The guy is only returning because what with his huge outlay on various refs and Judges, he made about $8 from his boxing career.
Get behind Ottke. A token of what can be achieved through manipulation. Lmfao at this 85, good shit here!
Every morning before he goes to sleep the boogeyman looks under his bed for Sven Ottke.
And who can blame him after the Boogeyman lost a contentious 12 round unanimous decision to Ottke in Dortmund, Germany.
Why the hell is all this svett otke crap appearing all of a sudden?
He's one of those guys who have been protected due to the potential financial losses to his country's boxing industry. He was East German so he pulled in a massive number of fans from his amatuer days. He was an above average boxer, but not a true world champion. If you want to see a truly cheating performance by a referee (as well as the judges) watch the Ottke Reid fight. SOme of the Ottke posts on You tube with 'highlights' of his best bits in 12 round fights last no more than a minute, a lot of the time they have to loop them. Any boxing fan worth his salt should remember his name so they can ridicule it if someone tries to place him in a 'best ever' debate. He has at least six fights where the decision could or should have gone the other way, but the Reid one is the most outrageous
isn't it obvious he is one of the most dominant fighters of our time!! total class!! can't wait for this fight!! hope its on ppv!! everyone is welcome at my house
because Ottke is great champ, he dominated his division and no one had a chance of beating him.
stop it man, you had me going for a minute, my irony detector must have been switched to off!!!!