pundit wrote:The fact is that I like fighters who master the sweet science - connecting without getting hit. Thus I have a certain admiration for fighters who others consider boring - say, Lennox Lewis, Berhard Hopkins, Winky Wright, or the said Sven Ottke. If a fighter is impossible to hit AND hits his opponents at will, such Floyd Mayweather or Roy Jones at his peak, this is a number up of course, but such fighters come along only every 10 years.
In this context, an "amateurish" style is nothing negative whatsoever in my book. At the amateurs you learn how to box.
As for Ottke/Calzaghe: Calzaghe would have outworked Ottke if Ottke would have stood in front of him. Calzaghe's handspeed is second to none at 168 and above (which is why I believe Calzaghe will outwork Lacy). But Ottke wouldn't have done him this favor. Calzaghe would have had to find Ottke in the ring first, and peak Ottke had both better footspeed and better ring generalship than Calzaghe.
Please do not compare bloody Sven Ottke to Lennox Lewis. Lewis knocked the shit out of lots of opponents, (Morrison, Botha, Grant, Tyson, Briggs, Ruddock, Bruno) need I go on?
Pernell Whittaker had every shot in the book, and scored a fair few knockouts too, and could stand in front of someone without getting hit, whereas Ottke just skirted the ring constantly. I think he would probably have been deducted points in an American or British ring for not doing anything at times.
Ottke never committed to his punches, even the KO of Mundine wasn't from big punches, Mundine was exhausted and went down from a shot that wouldn't have cracked a quail's egg.
) Calzaghe. 
