Absolute worst robbery of 2017

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I also qualified the question in the OP with "televised boxing", so there is a minimum standard of notability here. Preferably that phrasing could be extended to main or co-main events of any televised card, and/or to anything that you'd be likely to find after the fact on YouTube (the latter criteria is honestly best, as it allows for everyone to see & score and thereby properly evaluate one another's submissions; without that ability the debate is kind of worthless). If someone cared enough (and felt certain others would care) to bother spending time uploading it, then it can't be considered THAT obscure. Again, I never said I was expecting people to have seen and scored every measly deep-undercard 4-rounder on a low-budget prelim stream this year.

So all this sneering at how insularly elitist my thread is can simmer on down now.

 

Even though i voted for Keleş vs. Garrido II, and even though I had it a shutout, with my Zhuravskiy vs. Danyo card being a little closer, and despite making this post about the latter contest:

...i actually still can see a very respectable case to be made for Zhuravskiy being ****ed over worse than Garrido. Keleş was backpedaling from the opening bell, never doing anything really effective, never rallying substantially against Garrido's inexorable onslaught. Zhuravskiy, on the other hand, faced an initially game and confident Danyo and proceeded to rip his game plan to shreds and expose his lack of a coherent plan B, visibly reduced Danyo's comfort level in the ring from a 10 all the way down to a 1, spoiled his boxing, and just beat the will outta the man. I kind of respect the dominance of that performance a little more than Garrido's monotonous bulldozing of Keleş, who came in with no discernible game plan other than surviving ten rounds (with a feather-fisted guy he already had gone the same distance with to get a gift draw in July) and hope for another gift.

Neck and neck IMO.

 

I don't think you could objectively find two rounds that weren't clear as mud for Garrido tbh.

 

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That's a fair opinion and I appreciate you illustrating the difference in your intended meaning of "biggest robbery". Which is the most significant robbery of the year is a conversation that is just as valid and worthwhile, but just happens to be a different conversation than what I was looking to spark in the OP (that is, which is the objective worst viewed in a vacuum, without factoring in the "importance" of a bout...at least over a certain reasonable minimum threshold of notability as mentioned earlier).

I think a thread like that, focusing on your intended definition of the phrase "biggest robbery", is where a Horn vs. Pacquiao shoutout would be perfectly appropriate (even though I happen to disagree that it even was an incorrect decision, much less Pac getting "robbed"). In here it just doesn't belong, if people were careful to actually read the wording of the OP and understand what I was asking.

 

I'm really curious, of the 15 votes for "Other/IDKSAB", how many of those people actually watched the provided videos of either of the other poll options?

@Café, you're honestly telling me you watched both of them before mouthing off in agreement with my critics and voting petulantly for the sarcastically/rhetorically included 3rd option?

 

True but there's nothing with having a time and place for everything. Forums are organized for ease of indexing & readability, in such a way that you have a thread for this, and separate thread for that (maybe loosely related and overlapping but still technically different subject), etc. (except with subjects like TKO6 and Mayweather-Pacquiao, for instance, which if they weren't merged into giant thread dumps would make the place unnavigable by flooding up every page nonstop)

My title was "Absolute worst robbery of 2017", and in the opening post I set clear expectations for which connotation specifically was meant by that. Someone can make a "robbery that was the biggest deal" thread if they want.