Sven Ottke
Sven Ottke 
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.jpg) Sven Ottke, 2017 |
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| Data | |
| Birth Name | Sven Ottke |
| Fight name | The Phantom |
| Weight class | Super middleweight |
| nationality |
 German
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| birthday | 3rd June 1967 |
| place of birth | Berlin |
| style | Left delivery |
| size | 1.78 m |
| Combat Statistics | |
| Struggles | 34 |
| Victories | 34 |
| Knockout victories | 6th |
| Defeats | 0 |
| Profile in the BoxRec database | |
Sven Ottke (born June 3, 1967 in Berlin - Tempelhof ) is a German athlete and was a professional boxer and world champion from 1997 to 2004 .
Youth and amateur
After finishing school, Sven Ottke first trained as a plasterer and later also as an industrial clerk . At the age of 14 he went to Spandauer BC 26 Berlin to learn boxing, according to his own statement, because he was only second in other sports. He refuted his critics , who complained that he had started too late, when he became German champion in the junior class for the first time two years later, at the age of 16 . He continued his series of successes in the men's class.
Ottke won a total of eleven German championship titles: 1985 to 1991 in middleweight, 1992 and 1993 in light heavyweight and 1995 and 1996 again in middleweight up to 75 kg. In the finals he defeated Norbert Nieroba in 1990 and 1991 , Torsten May in 1992 , Dirk Eigenbrodt in 1995 and Kai Kurzawa in 1996 . In 1994 he lost the final against Thomas Ulrich .
In 1988, 1992 and 1996 he took part in the Olympic Games without reaching the medal ranks. In Seoul in 1988 he failed in the quarterfinals against Canadian Egerton Marcus . At the Summer Olympics in Barcelona in 1992 and in Atlanta in 1996, he lost to Ariel Hernández from Cuba , against whom he lost four games on points in the course of his career.
At the World Championships in Moscow in 1989 he finished third after a semi-final defeat against Cuban Ángel Espinosa when he was 21 and won his first international medal. At the 1991 World Cup in Sydney he lost in the quarterfinals against Alexander Lebsjak from the Soviet Union . At the title fights in Tampere in 1993 , he was stopped once again by Ariel Hernández.
In 1987 in Turin , Ottke took part in the European Championships for the first time and was eliminated in the quarterfinals against Henryk Petrich from Poland by a first-round knockout. In 1989 in Athens he was defeated in the first EM fight against Andrei Kurnjawka from the Soviet Union. In 1991 he won his first European championship title in Gothenburg under the leadership of federal base trainer Ulli Wegner . At the European Championships in 1993 in Bursa , he won the bronze medal after a narrow point defeat against local hero Sinan Şamil Sam . In 1996 Ottke won the European championship for the second time in Vejle, Denmark by beating the Hungarian Zsolt Erdei in the final .
He achieved further international success with second places at the 1994 World Cup in Bangkok and the Goodwill Games in 1990 in Seattle .
In his amateur career, Ottke defeated the future professional world champions Dariusz Michalczewski , Michael Moorer , Chris Byrd , Antonio Tarver and at the 1994 Chemistry Cup, Juan Carlos Gómez . Against Henry Maske he lost on points at the TSC tournament in 1988 and in the last international match between the GDR and the FRG due to a controversial low blow by KO Ottke boxed six times against Henryk Petrych and never won against the Pole. Of 335 fights, he won 286.
professional
Ottke's amateur trainer Ulli Wegner entered professional business in 1996 and switched to the Sauerland boxing stable . Wegner ("He'll be the best professional") was convinced that Ottke would master the transition from amateur to professional well. When he wanted to bring Ottke to Sauerland, this idea was initially rejected by Wilfried Sauerland , among others . Wegner informed the press that Ottke would become a professional. There have already been reports that Ottke is switching to Sauerland's competitor Universum , but in 1997 Ottke ultimately decided in favor of Sauerland and Wegner. Almost a year later, on October 24, 1998, he was able to win the world championship title according to the IBF version with a points win against the American Charles Brewer . The fight took place in Düsseldorf , the judges' decision was narrowly in favor of Ottke, Brewer felt disadvantaged by the judgment.
He defended the title in the following years against Glen Johnson , Silvio Branco , Anthony Mundine and Rudy Markussen , among others . He crowned his career with the additional win of the World Championship according to the WBA version on March 13, 2003: In front of 10,500 spectators in the Max-Schmeling-Halle he defeated Byron Mitchell in a fast-paced fight on points, with Ottke coming under pressure in the final round , but saved itself over time. He became the second German after Dariusz Michalczewski , who held the world title of two associations. On March 27, 2004 Ottke resigned as unbeaten world champion with a win against Armand Krajnc after 23 successful title defenses. He announced his retirement from professional boxing in the ring after the victory in Magdeburg against the Swedes, he had not previously informed anyone about it.
Ottke played a total of 34 professional fights, all of which he won. In the ranking of the best boxers of all time, Ottke is currently (January 2020) in ninth place in the super middleweight division, making him the most successful German in this weight class.
Ottke was known for his evasive skills and was also unpopular with some who prefer the offensive boxing method. He was referred to as the “boxer with head and eye”, as the “phantom” that could not be hit by the opponent. His coach Wegner described his protégé as a fast-moving boxer with good reflexes.
Comeback plan
On January 26, 2008, it was announced that Sven Ottke was planning to return to the ring for a fight against Dariusz Michalczewski . The fight was to take place on May 24, 2008 in the TUI Arena in Hanover. This was made possible because the battle announced between Michalczewski and Graciano Rocchigiani had failed due to the financial situation. It was said that Rocchigiani should have made too many demands. For Ottke, an almost four-year ring break would have come to an end. Since both boxers have boxed in different weight classes so far, Ottke demanded a maximum weight of 84 kg for the upcoming fight. On April 7, 2008, the fight was canceled. An agreement on the framework conditions failed again due to financial reasons.
Others
As a 10-year-old he saw his parents split up. Most of the time he grew up with his grandparents. Even at school he had an irrepressible urge to move around and was often involved in fights until he came to boxing through a friend's mediation.
Ottke always attached great importance to his professional training. After secondary school, he learned the profession of plasterer and was able to train as an industrial clerk a. Through 1992 with the support of the Berlin State Sports Association. a. at the OSZ for Industry and Data Processing in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. In 1993 he took up a position at his sponsor Mercedes-Benz in Mannheim.
Ottke inherited his passion for long-distance running from his boxing colleague Thorsten Spürgin . On September 12, 2004, Ottke ran his first marathon in Cologne in a time of 3:47:53 and in the following year in the same place 3:43:29. On May 13, 2007 he finished the half marathon as part of the Ruhr Marathon from Oberhausen to Gelsenkirchen with 1:44:20.
According to his own statements, Ottke is now devoting himself to his second sporting passion, golf . Boxer, he will stay as a commentator on ARD .
He currently lives in Karlsruhe. In 1993 Sven Ottke married his girlfriend Gabi Reha . In the meantime the two are divorced again. With her he has the daughter Rebecca (* 1993) and the son Marc-Steffen (* 2001). In January 2009 he and his new girlfriend Monic had their first child, a girl named Emily Svenic. In October 2006 Sven Ottke took part in the RTL show Dancing on Ice together with figure skater Mandy Wötzel . He took part in the 6th Wok World Cup in 2008 .
With his club Sven helps ..! eV he supports institutions that work with young people who are prone to violence and who are difficult to educate.
In early 2020 he took part in the 14th season of I'm a Star - Get Me Out of Here! part. He took second place.
successes
- Amateur record: 256 wins - 47 losses - 5 draws
- 1985: 3rd place in the middleweight division at the 13th International Gazeta Pomorska Tournament in Bydgoszcz
- 1985: German middleweight champion
- 1986: German middleweight champion
- 1986: 2nd place at the 8th International Feliks Stamm Memorial in Warsaw
- 1987: German middleweight champion
- 1988: German middleweight champion
- 1989: German middleweight champion
- 1989: 1st place in the middleweight division at the 9th International Intercup in Cologne
- 1989: 3rd place in the middleweight division at the 5th World Championship in Moscow
- 1990: German middleweight champion
- 1990: 2nd place in the middleweight division in the second Goodwill Games of Seattle
- 1991: German middleweight champion
- 1991: European middleweight champion at the 29th European Championships in Gothenburg
- 1992: German light heavyweight champion
- 1992: 1st place in the light heavyweight division at the 15th International Tammer Tournament in Tampere
- 1993: German light heavyweight champion
- 1993: 3rd place in the light heavyweight division at the 30th European Championship in Bursa
- 1994: 1st place in the light heavyweight division at the 22nd Chemistry Cup
- 1994: 2nd place in the middleweight division at the 7th World Cup in Bangkok
- 1995: German middleweight champion
- 1995: 1st place in the middleweight division at the Multi Nations Tournament in Liverpool
- 1996: German middleweight champion
- 1996: 2nd place in the middleweight division at the 24th Chemistry Cup
- 1996: European middleweight champion at the 31st European Championships in Vejle
- Professional balance: 34 wins - 0 losses - 0 draws
- December 13, 1997: German light heavyweight champion
- May 30, 1998: WBC international light heavyweight champion
- October 24, 1998: IBF World Champion in super middleweight division (21 title defenses)
- March 15, 2003: WBA super world champion in super middleweight division (4 title defenses)
Awards
- Berlin's Sportsman of the Year 1989, 1990, 1991, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004
Web links
- Sven Ottke in the BoxRec database
- Sven Ottke in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Literature by and about Sven Ottke in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b ULI WEGNER ON HIS BEGINNING AS A TRAINER, SAUERLAND, SVEN OTTKE, MARKUS BEYER, ARTHUR ABRAHAM UVM. Accessed October 24, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Christoph Rybarczyk: The night of champions. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. October 26, 1998. Retrieved September 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Double world champion Sven Ottke is living his dream. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. March 17, 2003, accessed September 26, 2019 .
- ^ Hans-Joachim Leyenberg, Magdeburg: Boxing: A strong finish . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed September 26, 2019]).
- ↑ BoxRec ranking , accessed on January 10, 2020
- ↑ Ludger Beerbaum and Sven Ottke became fathers on Bild.de , January 7, 2009
- ↑ The Sven Association helps ..! makes young people strong. We support him in this. In: werkstadt.com. January 13, 2017, accessed on May 15, 2020 (German).
| predecessor | title | successor |
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| Charles Brewer | World Super Middleweight Boxing Champion ( IBF ) October 24, 1998 - March 27, 2004 |
vacant Jeff Lacy |
| Byron Mitchell | Super Middleweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) March 15, 2003 - March 27, 2004 |
vacant Anthony Mundine |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ottke, Sven |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd June 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin , Tempelhof |