2016 Olympic gold medalist Robson Conceicao (19-2-1, 9 KOs) pulled off an upset with a twelve-round break up choice win over fan-favorite WBC tremendous featherweight champion O’Shaquie Foster (22-3, 12 KOs) on the Prudential Heart in Newark, New Jersey.
Foster’s Passive Strategy
The struggle’s consequence had the 30-year-old Texas native Foster and his followers complaining angrily, however the actuality is that he didn’t do sufficient to defeat the challenger, Conceicao. The Brazilian needed it extra and out-hustled the champion together with his hard-working method.
Foster was too defensive, hanging again, shifting, and letting the hard-working Conceicao assault him all evening by looping his proper hand into his head.
Foster used his Shakur-esque preventing fashion of shifting, throwing single pictures, and holding. It seemed like Foster was imitating Shakur, and that safety-first, hit-not-get-hit fashion didn’t resonate with the judges.
The scores have been 116-112 and 115-113 for Conceicao and 116-112 for Foster.
Conceicao’s Redeems Himself
Conceicao had been the recipient of controversial selections in his controversial twelve-round unanimous choice loss to Oscar Valdez on September 10, 2021, in Tucson, Arizona, and a twelve-round majority draw in opposition to Emanuel Navarrete on November 16, 2023, on the T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas.
If there’s a rematch, Foster should change his method to preventing as a result of he’s too passive. We noticed that final Saturday evening in his loss to Conceicao and in his earlier one in opposition to Abraham Nova final February. Foster nearly misplaced to Nova in a match that was razor-close.
In each fights, Conceicao appeared to win, however wasn’t given the victory by the judging crew that labored these contests.
When interviewed final Saturday evening, Conceicao defined why he felt the judges gave him the choice. He stated Foster was working round an excessive amount of, and he was proper.
Foster wasn’t partaking and let Conceicao be the aggressor for the whole struggle. When judges see that form of passive, non-engaged conduct from a fighter, they have an inclination to offer the victory to the opposite fighter.
If Foster needed to win, he wanted to be assertive and never focus solely on avoiding being hit, as we noticed final Saturday evening.
The promoters for final Saturday evening’s occasion created a toxic mixture by putting Shakur Stevenson and O’Shaquie Foster within the co-feature. As a result of each have non-entertaining preventing kinds, the final two fights of the night have been boring matches.
For those who’re a promoter, it’s greatest to have a kind of two slightly than combining them and turning the occasion right into a witch’s brew that sends followers streaming to the exit early.
Having two an identical fighters with the identical defensive fashion on the prime of a card is a foul thought. I’d have seen that instantly and by no means positioned Shakur Stevenson within the prime slot and Foster within the co-feature.
“That is for my daughter. I promised this to my daughter, and I used to be capable of fulfill that promise. I’m the champion of the world,” Conceição stated.
