O’Shaquie Foster (22-3, 12 KOs) says he’s going to throw more punches in his rematch with WBC super featherweight champion Robson Conceição (19-2-1, 9 KOs) on November 2nd on the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, Latest York. It’ll be difficult for Foster to withstand his usual step back style that he’s used his entire pro profession.
Foster, 31, lost his WBC title to the 2016 Olympic gold medalist earlier this yr on July sixth in Newark, Jersey. In that fight, Foster didn’t throw enough punches, fighting defensively along with his Shakur-esque style and getting thoroughly out-hustled by the Brazilian go-getter Conceicao.
Interestingly, Foster felt he’d done enough to deserve the victory, and he still feels that way three months later. That’s troubling since it was obvious from watching the fight that he got outworked within the round of the fight by Conceicao and deserved to lose by a fair wider margin.
The scores
116-112 – Conceicao
115-113 – Conceicao
116-112 – Foster
Foster had fought in the identical way in his previous fight against Abraham Nova on February sixteenth at Madison Square Garden in Latest York, getting out-worked by him as well. The judges, nevertheless, gave Foster a 12-round split decision, but plenty of fans felt that Nova must have been given the choice win. I watched the fight live, and I had it for Nova 117-111.
Foster’s sort of fighting, which is a poor man’s copy of Shakur Stevenson, is simply too defensive, and he doesn’t engage enough to win rounds conclusively. He fights briefly spurts after which retreats and appears to make his opponents miss the way in which Shakur does.
Having those two share the identical card on July sixth on the Prudential Center was pure poison since the fans got two of the very same fighters within the co-feature and the major event. It’s no wonder that they began piling out of the venue in the course of the Shakur fight because they’d been bored.
Top Rank made a mistake by putting Shakur and Foster on the identical card. They will’t afford to maintain doing that since it’s a witch’s brew for the fans.
“The fight was easy. I didn’t see where the judges got that call. I only saw that I might have been more lively and let my hands go in certain situations more,” said Foster about his loss to Robson Conceição earlier this yr on July sixth in Newark, Latest Jersey.
“There are plenty of things I can do in that ring. I feel like I could have just put more combos,” said O’Shaquie. “I could have done slightly bit more. I’m trying to let my hands go more. When you watch his fights, he fights the identical way each time. He doesn’t switch it up an excessive amount of.”
Foster is simply too set in his ways for him to alter. That Shakur pull-back style that Foster has is simply too well-ingrained in him without breaking him as a fighter if he tries to fight with aggression, and I don’t think he can physically change.
