O’Shaquie Foster (22-3, 12 KOs) says he’s going to throw extra punches in his rematch with WBC tremendous featherweight champion Robson Conceição (19-2-1, 9 KOs) on November 2nd on the Turning Stone Resort On line casino in Verona, New York. Will probably be troublesome for Foster to withstand his normal step again fashion that he’s used his complete professional profession.
Foster, 31, misplaced his WBC title to the 2016 Olympic gold medalist earlier this yr on July sixth in Newark, Jersey. In that battle, Foster didn’t throw sufficient punches, combating defensively along with his Shakur-esque fashion and getting completely out-hustled by the Brazilian go-getter Conceicao.
Apparently, Foster felt he’d performed sufficient to deserve the victory, and he nonetheless feels that approach three months later. That’s troubling as a result of it was apparent from watching the battle that he received outworked within the spherical of the battle by Conceicao and deserved to lose by an excellent wider margin.
The scores
116-112 – Conceicao
115-113 – Conceicao
116-112 – Foster
Foster had fought in the identical approach in his earlier battle in opposition to Abraham Nova on February sixteenth at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York, getting out-worked by him as nicely. The judges, nevertheless, gave Foster a 12-round cut up resolution, however a whole lot of followers felt that Nova ought to have been given the choice win. I watched the battle dwell, and I had it for Nova 117-111.
Foster’s fashion of combating, which is a poor man’s copy of Shakur Stevenson, is just too defensive, and he doesn’t have interaction sufficient 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 these two share the identical card on July sixth on the Prudential Middle was pure poison as a result of the followers received two of the very same fighters within the co-feature and the primary occasion. It’s no marvel that they started piling out of the venue through the Shakur battle as a result of they’d been bored.
Prime Rank made a mistake by placing Shakur and Foster on the identical card. They’ll’t afford to maintain doing that as a result of it’s a witch’s brew for the followers.
“The battle was simple. I didn’t see the place the judges received that call. I solely noticed that I might have been extra energetic and let my palms go in sure conditions extra,” stated Foster about his loss to Robson Conceição earlier this yr on July sixth in Newark, New Jersey.
“There are a whole lot of issues I can do in that ring. I really feel like I might have simply put extra mixtures,” stated O’Shaquie. “I might have performed just a little bit extra. I’m trying to let my palms go extra. For those who watch his fights, he fights the identical approach each time. He doesn’t swap it up an excessive amount of.”
Foster is just too set in his methods for him to vary. That Shakur pull-back fashion that Foster has is just too well-ingrained in him with out breaking him as a fighter if he tries to battle with aggression, and I don’t assume he can bodily change.
