{"id":813931,"date":"2026-10-26T00:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T00:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813931\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T00:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T00:26:19","slug":"oshaquie-fosters-brilliance-makes-him-a-three-belt-champion-over-emanuel-navarrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813931\/","title":{"rendered":"O’Shaquie Foster’s brilliance makes him a three-belt champion over Emanuel Navarrete"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lance<\/a>Add BoxingScene on Google\"\"\"EmanuelTop Rank\u2514Emanuel Navarrete loses to O’Shaquie Foster by unanimous decision<\/p>\n

Call it a Texas master barbecue.<\/p>\n

Houston\u2019s O\u2019Shaquie Foster skewered Emanuel Navarrete Saturday night, knocking down the Mexican twice in the 12th round to secure a no-doubt 115-111, 118-108, 118-108 unanimous-decision victory to become a three-belt super-featherweight champion in San Antonio\u2019s Frost Bank Center.<\/p>\n

Continue reading<\/p>\n

Dalton Smith targets Hillsborough and Arctic Monkeys dream after Alberto Puello win<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew he was going to be strong and awkward. I just had more in me,\u201d Foster, 26-3, said in adding the IBF and WBO belts to his own WBC strap. \u201cI knew I was the better inside and outside fighter. I knew I was levels above him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Navarrete admitted simply, \u201cHis style was better than mine tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a complete showing that should launch him into the pound-for-pound rankings, Foster opened with a sweeping left to the head, then darted in with another left to the face as Navarrete, 40-3-1, yearned to just land a punch.<\/p>\n

The foot speed of Foster kept him out of reach as he moved in with confidence to attack the body and head of the three-division champion.<\/p>\n

Navarrete then launched two hard rights, along with a looping left that caught Foster as his footing escaped him in retreat \u2013 lifting the spirits of the pro-Navarrete crowd inFoster\u2019s home state.<\/p>\n

Foster\u2019s hand speed trumped Navarrete\u2019s in the third, but Navarrete followed by pressuring Foster to the ropes and landed crisply with a power left.<\/p>\n

Foster met the pressure in the fourth, delivering a counter right and relying on steady feet to land poised scoring shots.<\/p>\n

Foster\u2019s willingness to trade in the center of the ring surprised, but the strategy bore fruit as he landed effective shots on the Mexican.<\/p>\n

Relying on his defensive gifts and combinations, Foster affirmed his control of the bout in the sixth and cracked Navarrete with a chin shot in the final minute of the frame, leaving Navarrete to desperately chase him.<\/p>\n

Navarrete\u2019s punches-landed percentage through six rounds was 15 percent.<\/p>\n

Foster then hammered Navarrete with a hurtful left to the head in the seventh, a flex to the crowd that he\u2019s comfortable fighting foes from south of the border.<\/p>\n

A head-jarring right by Foster started the eighth, as his corner urged him forward,knowing he\u2019s never been dropped.<\/p>\n

A sharp combination in the ninth revealed Foster\u2019s comfort in working surgically in the face of a unified champion who knocked out 33 of his first 43 opponents.<\/p>\n

Navarrete used the 10th to mount a desperate push, landing upon Foster until the Texan reverted to his position of superiority at the ring\u2019s center.<\/p>\n

Foster\u2019s corner advised Navarrete burned up so much energy in the 10th, instructing Foster to seal the outcome. Navarrete landed a big uppercut to display his constant danger.<\/p>\n

But Foster knew the history of Texas judging, how they robbed Pernell Whitaker of victory over Mexican great Julio Cesar Chavez Snr. a generation ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy coaches said, \u2018Go out and put him on his ass.\u2019 That\u2019s what I did,\u201d Foster said in making a strong fighter-of-the-year appeal. \u201cI pictured that overhand right catching him. It finally happened in the 12th.\u201d<\/p>\n

Foster charged Navarrete in the 12th, and when the pair moved to an opposite corner and engaged, Foster unleashed a right to the chin and knocked down Navarrete for just the second time in his career.<\/p>\n

Another Foster right dropped Navarrete early in the final minute of the 12th, to notch a 10-7 round \u2013 and seal the victory.<\/p>\n

Foster\u2019s superb showing at age 33 happened because, \u201cI just need to be focused. My focus is being the best I can be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even though former three-division champion Vasiliy Lomachenko was in attendance and said he wants to fight Foster next, Foster said he\u2019s open to keeping his WBO belt by meeting mandatory challenger Charly Suarez or fighting December\u2019s WBA title winner between champion Anthony Cacace and former featherweight champion Nick Ball.<\/p>\n

O’Shaquie Foster’s brilliance makes him a three-belt champion over Emanuel Navarrete<\/p>\n

Vasiliy Lomachenko announces comeback plans, targets O’Shaquie FosterDalton Smith does just enough to retain world title against Alberto Puello‘Chop Chop’ Gonzalez put in the work, reaped it up versus VazquezAziz Abdul, grandson of Idi Amin and amateur boxer, disqualified from second international tournament Arthur Biyarslanov arrives, doubts over Lindolfo Delgado traveling to Saudi ArabiaVergil Ortiz under \u2018pressure\u2019 to outperform Sebastian Fundora against Keith ThurmanMoses Itauma spotted training at Floyd Mayweather’s gym ahead of ring returnRobert Garcia ready for \u2018Bam\u2019 Rodriguez to face Naoya Inoue next: \u2018Send the f**king contract\u2019Daniel Dubois backs Moses Itauma to rebuild, sees him as future opponent\"VasiliyVasiliy Lomachenko announces comeback plans, targets O’Shaquie Foster\"EmanuelEmanuel Navarrete and O’Shaquie Foster make weight for unification fight\"EmanuelEmanuel Navarrete locked in on O’Shaquie Foster as legacy plays loom\"EmanuelO’Shaquie Foster sees stars in Navarrete unification\"EmanuelEmanuel Navarrete-O\u2019Shaquie Foster unification showdown officially announced\"O'ShaquieO\u2019Shaquie Foster Inks Multi-Year Extension with Top Rank\"YoenliYoenli Hernandez and the 10 most destructive fighters in boxing today\"NavaretteWBO set to approve Emanuel Navarrete-O’Shaquie Foster as three-belt unification\"EmanuelEmanuel Navarrete-O’Shaquie Foster unification fight set for October 24 in San AntonioO’Shaquie Foster’s brilliance makes him a three-belt champion over Emanuel Navarrete\"CharlyTeam Charly Suarez requesting WBO enforce Emanuel Navarrete rematch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Add BoxingScene on GoogleTop Rank\u2514Emanuel Navarrete loses to O’Shaquie Foster by unanimous decision Call it a Texas master…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,10078,99687,37951,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-813931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-emanuel-navarrete","tag-oshaquie-foster","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}