Robson Conceicao lectured O’Shaquie Foster on the worth of exhausting work of their remaining press convention as we speak forward of the protection of his WBC tremendous featherweight title of their Saturday rematch.
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The 2 will meet this Saturday, November 2nd, on the Turning Stone Resort On line casino in Verona, New York. Conceicao needs to complete what he began, outworking the slacker Foster and displaying that to be a world champion, you need to work exhausting. He’s acquired the Brazilian hard-worker perspective.
The previous WBC champion Foster (22-3, 12 KOs) admitted that he didn’t wish to put within the effort to let his fingers go to quiet the booing crowd of their combat earlier this 12 months on July sixth in Newark, New Jersey, and wound up shedding a 12-round cut up determination.
Foster has remained unable to know why he misplaced in any case these months, and he has continued to complain that he ought to have gained. Throughout as we speak’s press convention, the Brazilian Conceicao (19-2-1, 9) defined to Foster, like a coach speaking to certainly one of his fighters, that he didn’t throw sufficient punches and simply ran across the ring.
He didn’t wish to work exhausting and thought he may win by hitting and operating. He seemed like he had morphed into Shakur Stevenson and forgot that the judges wouldn’t give him the identical favorable A-side therapy as him.
“This combat is private for me as a result of I really feel {that a} champion is a fighter who goes on the market and doesn’t run round, who appears to be like for the combat, who tries to win, and doesn’t simply throw one or two punches after which strikes away,” mentioned Conceicao about Foster.
I don’t assume Foster can work tougher than he did. It appears to be like like Foster not has the combat in him after his struggle with slugger Eduardo Hernandez on October twenty eighth final 12 months in Cancun, Mexico. Hernandez damage Foster a number of instances in that combat with huge photographs, forcing him to rally within the twelfth spherical to get a knockout. Even with all of the defensive work that Foster put in, he acquired hit so much by Hernandez.
That combat took so much out of the 31-year-old Foster, who hasn’t seemed like the identical fighter since in his matches in opposition to Abraham Nova and Conceicao. In each of these contests, Foster didn’t let his hand go, and at a number of huge photographs.
Nova was placing it on Foster from rounds eight by twelve and did greater than sufficient to defeat him earlier this 12 months on February sixteenth. The judges gave Foster a 12-round cut up determination, however he deserved a defeat. It was the identical scenario when Foster fought Conceicao. He didn’t throw, and it was all he may do to squeeze out just a few photographs. This goes again to the Eduardo Hernandez combat. He took one thing out of Foster.
“This time round, I’ve little question in my thoughts that I’ll do a greater job and characterize Brazil higher,” mentioned Conceicao to the media about his rematch with Foster. “I didn’t really feel a lot energy. He has good protection and a very good jab; he’s very technical however not very highly effective.
“Foster’s protection is difficult and difficult. If he’s saying he’s going to come back and strike extra, that’s what I’m anticipating. If that’s the case, it’s going to be far more attention-grabbing. That was the combat that I had ready myself for the primary time round.”
Foster can’t strike extra as a result of he’s not a come-forward kind of fighter. He can combat in short spurts as he did in opposition to Eduardo Hernandez in spherical 12, however that was a uncommon event. He doesn’t combat like that and by no means has. If he tried to combat like that in opposition to Conceicao, he’d get knocked out.
“If he does that the second time round, nice,” mentioned Conceicao. “That’s what I wish to see as nicely as a result of it could be a far more attention-grabbing combat and higher for the general public. I’m prepared. Let’s see if he does it this time round. I’m prepared.
“I really feel this combat will probably be tougher and far more aggressive, and that’s what I really feel,” mentioned Conceicao.
