2015 Robbery Of The Year: Which Pugilistic Judicial Atrocity Takes The Top Honors?

I'm not including a lot of the popular candidates for Robbery of the Year, because often times the decisions in close fights that can go either way get blown out of proportion by biased fanboys with an agenda. The only fights that will be included in the poll are genuine robberies in which one fighter dominated or came close to dominating the other fighter for all 10 to 12 rounds and was brazenly robbed of the accurate scores by either blind or corrupt judges.

First Candidate Is.....
Lamont Peterson's MD win over Felix Diaz
Judges: Brian Costello 114-114, Mark D'Attilio 112-116, Dorothea Perry 111-117
Felix Diaz the undefeated Domincan amateur star won the fight with relative ease banking anywhere from 8 to 10 rounds, he outworked Peterson in almost every round and hurt him multiple times, and not one of the judges awarded him a winning score, one was nice and had it a draw. Maybe Al Haymon thought he was paying Peterson back for the loss to Garcia, the sad part is Diaz did far better against Peterson than Peterson did against Danny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfUo-LcAkBE

The Second Candidate Is....
Keita Obara's Majority Draw against Walter Castillo
judges: Michael Ancona 115-113, John Rupert 114-114, Mark Streisand 114-114
Obara making his American debut was inexplicably robbed blind in an incredibly lopsided fight, you could make an argument Obara defeated Castillo more handily than Amir Imam, he repeatedly hurt Castillo badly rocking him and had him on the verge of a KO through much of the last 3 rounds. He countered and jabbed the hell out of Castillo and won somewhere between 9 to 10 rounds and all he got was a stinking draw.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaHE1VzK1io

The Third Candidate Is.....
Stanislav Kashtanov SD loss to Felix Valera
judges: Reina Urbaez 112-116, Philippe Verbeke 117-111, John Poturaj 113-115
Here's the big clue here Ukrainian Kashtanov fighting in Russia basically shut the unbeaten Dominican fighter out from start to finish, Valera maybe if being generous won 2 rounds of the 12. But Russia's dislike of Ukraine combined with the WBA's love affair with Domincan fighters conspired to brutally rob poor Stas of debatably the biggest win of his career.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg5WHVSPODU

The Fourth Candidate Is.....
Dominic Wade's SD win over Sam Soliman
judges: Robert Byrd 95-94, Max DeLuca 93-96, Robert Hoyle 97-92
Undefeated hot prospect Wade was taken to school by the grizzled old wily Aussie and basically lost every round and was gifted one of the year's most ridiculous decisions. Soliman's herky jerky style confounded and frustrated the hell out of Wade, who was thoroughly outworkd from start to finish, even with a questionable KD of Soliman..Wade still should have lost handily, but he didn't.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjuExr0gFaw

The Fifth Candidate Is.....
Mateusz Masternak's SD loss to Johnny Muller
judges: Siya Mani 93-95, Neville Holz 95-93, Cyphrian Noaba 93-95
Masternak basically won almost every round of the fight by outworking him and cutting him, he even managed to score 2 10-8 rounds by dropping Muller on 2 occasions, yet he still lost by way of robbery in shocking....wait for it...Muller's home country of South Africa. Shameful scorecards.

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The Sixth Candidate Is.....
Vincent Feigenbutz UD Win Over Giovanni De Carolis
judges: Erkki Meronen 115-113, Jesus Morata Garcia 114-113, Jean-Francois Toupin 115-113
Feigenbutz was dropped hard in the first round and rocked several times throughout the fight, Giovanni managed to beat up and outwork the 20 year old kid and basically schooled him winning the fight by 8 or 9 rounds plus the additional KD, but it was in Germany, so he got robbed blind. It was such a bad robbery there's going to be an automatic rematch. Feigenbutz was even obnoxiously boastful about the win he seemed shocked to receive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvUDD5bY5ho

The Seventh Candidate Is.....
Arthur Villanueva's TD UD loss to McJoe Arroyo
judges: Larry Hazzard Jr. 91-98, Levi Martinez 91-98, John Stewart 92-97
Arthur outworked and outlanded McJoe with ease for 7 of the 10 rounds all the while with a horrible gash from a headbutt. Even with an absurd point deduction for a headbutt Villanueva even won that round. McJoe fought an awful spoilerish fight and should have lost wide, yet was given the ridiculous gift scores you see above.
https://www.facebook.com/PRboxea1/videos/1126644634016527/

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The Eight Candidate Is....
Dominic Breazeale's UD Win Over Fred Kassi
judges: Irwin Deutsch 92-98, David Hudson 93-97, John Westeterp 90-100
It's not so much that Kassi won walking away, it was a relatively competitive fight with most giving the nod to Kassi 96-94 or 97-93 but a draw would even be acceptable, but the mere fact that Breazeale won on one scorecard by 100-90 is insane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypnKjGnbPew

The Ninth Candidate Is.....
Jean Pascal's UD over Yunieski Gonzalez
judges: Richard Ocasio 96-94, Eric Cheek 96-94, John McKaie 96-94
I didn't find the scoring that egregious in this match, I had the same score as the 3 judges, I thought Pascal landed the cleaner shots, while slipping many of Gonzalez' and much of his work being of the non point scoring variety landing on Jean's shoulders and back. But due to popular demand I added it, but not enthusiastically.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxLqUWjaZSc


The Tenth Candidate Is......
Anthony Crolla's Split Draw to Darleys Perez
judges: John Poturaj 113-113, Jose Roberto Torres 113-113, Erkki Meronen 116-111
Crolla won the majority of the rounds, he was slicker and all around better than Perez in almost every way, there were even 2 points deducted from Perez, yet somehow he still managed to get a draw in a bogus decision, that required a rematch. Crolla set things right the second time around stopping Perez in the 5th with a body shot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wMgCTTQVYk





Many Honorable Mentions But Not Quite Worthy Of Inclusion.
Peterson-Garcia The fight was close a draw, it could have gone either way.
Salido-Martinez 1 Salido deserved draw in first fight.
Salido-Martinez 2 Salido deserved win but it was close.
Cunningham-Glazkov was too close to call.
Cunningham-Tarver was too close to call.
Hope-Sinwangcha It was overturned so that's pretty bad...but case closed and out of the running.
Vazquez-Mendez Vazquez brutally robbed IMO but others had it closer than I.
Gonzalez-Oquendo Jhonny's loss to was bad but fight was close.
Walters-Sosa The Draw was bad but Sosa activity made a lot of the rounds very look competitive, had he won it would have been a robbery.
Vasquez-Fortuna Bryan won but close rounds make it less absurd, but a robbery nonetheless.
Dolton-Molina Dolton beat Molina but it was a draw, not too egregious.
Martirosyan-Charlo Vanes deserved the win but fight was close.
Mcdonnell-Kameda 1 & 2 The right man won both times absolutely no controversy here.
Arreola-Kaufmann Kaufmann won but it wasn't quite lopsided enough.
Guerrero-Martinez I did include it because Guerrero won, best Martinez deserved was a draw.
Nurse-Jenkins 1 & 2 Jenkins arguably beat Nurse both times but close.
Arreola-Kassi Draw Kassi won but barely.
Gesta-Molina Draw close fight Gesta deserved nod.
Gassiev-Thomas Gassiev was robbed of his chance at a KO win.


If you read this thread VOTE have an opinion even if you haven't seen all the evidence, speak out, even posters who usually never post, please feel free to run your mouth, hundreds click on these threads yet rarely ever vote.

 

In lieu of the mysteriously unavailable Villanueva-Arroyo fight, even Showtime was embarrassed.

Here's some online reviews of Arroyo Vs. Villanueva.

Also Pinoy Prodigy and I both scored it wide for Villanueva if that counts for anything.
http://www.asianboxing.info/world-title-results/category/arthur-villanueva-vs-mcjoe-arroyo
http://www.boxingnews24.com/2015/07/chavez-jr-vs-reyes-early-results/
http://www.rappler.com/sports/by-sport/boxing-mma/99817-arthur-villanueva-loses-mcjoe-arroyo
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/spor...ries-foul-after-losing-ibf-title-fight-419862

 

Did I make the right calls on the choices I made?

Discuss:think DebateD:

 

What a shock the closest fight that I hesitated in adding is running away with it.

 

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I'm as perplexed by the McDonnell-Kameda controversies as you are, I have no idea why people would be upset the right man won on both occasions, McDonnell just outworked him both times, it is what it is.

I thought Cunningham and Vanes edged their matches, but too close to call for it to be a legit robbery.