O’Shaquie Foster (22-3, 12 KOs) will face WBC tremendous featherweight champion Robson Conceição (19-2-1, 9 KOs) in a rematch on November 2nd on ESPN+ in Verona, New York.
The previous WBC 130-lb champion Foster, 30, is getting a second likelihood after the WBC ordered the rematch as a result of outcry from him and his followers.
Foster’s Passive Model Results in Defeat
Foster did not let his fingers go and was out-hustled by the bold, motivated 2016 Olympic gold medalist Conceicao of their conflict on July sixth on the Prudential Heart in Newark, New Jersey. Inserting Foster and Shakur Stevenson on the identical card final July was a cup of poison for the followers on the Prudential Heart. Foster’s model for the Conceicao battle seemed like he’d narrowed it from Shakur as a result of he made the battle unwatchable.
“I do suppose I gained the battle,” Conceicao mentioned about his battle with Foster. “He didn’t come to battle. He was working and working. I used to be the winner.”
I had Conceicao successful 11-1, which was a straightforward battle to attain. He pushed the battle in each spherical whereas Foster stayed towards the ropes, attempting to make Conceicao miss and combating transient spurts. When you’re a coach, you will need to let your fighters know they will’t battle the best way Foster did and count on to be given determination wins when dealing with somebody who’s combating onerous and pressuring.
Foster had gotten a questionable 12-round cut up determination in his earlier battle towards Abraham Nova final February when he was outworked equally. In the end, Nova utterly outworked Foster and seemed just like the winner, however they gave it to the Texas native.
Can Foster Adapt?
Foster ought to have discovered from that contest that he can’t battle that method and count on to be given questionable choices repeatedly. Beating Nova by a razor-close controversial determination was a crimson flag that Foster wanted to alter the best way he fights going into his match with Conceicao, however he didn’t.
Preventing like a carbon copy of Shakur Stevenson, Foster performed it protected, utilizing the three-foot step-back transfer all night time to maintain out of hurt’s method, however he did not battle. Afterward, Foster appeared in denial, failing to acknowledge that he’d fought scared and letting the motivated Brazilian Conceicao outwork him.
I watched the Foster vs. Conceicao battle twice, and it was straightforward to attain. The Olympic gold medalist Conceicao knew the best way to win by outworking Foster, who appeared to suppose he would win a victory on a budget by enjoying it protected, utilizing his Shakur-esque model, considering the judges would worth that.
If Foster doesn’t change his safety-first Shakur-like combating model, he’ll lose the rematch with Conceicao, and his profession will sink into the mud. I don’t suppose Foster can change. He doesn’t have the canine in him to battle powerful guys like Conceicao, Anthony Cacace, or Emanuel Navarrete.
