SAN ANTONIO — The most important battle left to make at 130 kilos within the tremendous featherweight division is official. WBO/IBF champion Emanuel Navarrete and WBC champion O’Shaquie Foster will meet Saturday, Oct. 24, at Frost Financial institution Middle, stay on DAZN, placing all three main world titles on the road in a single battle. Whoever leaves San Antonio holding all three is not simply the most effective 130-pounder on the planet. He is a severe Fighter of the 12 months candidate.
High Rank President Todd duBoef did not undersell it. “The stakes do not get any larger,” he mentioned, “because the winner might be heralded because the division’s king.”
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Navarrete (40-2-1, 33 KOs) has been constructing towards this since he shocked Isaac Dogboe at 122 kilos in December 2018, and has since worn world titles at featherweight (126 lbs.) and now tremendous featherweight (130 lbs.). He answered each doubt in February with a career-best win over beforehand unbeaten IBF titleholder Eduardo Nuñez, and he is not treating this as simply one other protection.
“I am coming for the whole lot, and I am coming with the whole lot I’ve acquired,” Navarrete mentioned. “I am a Mexican warrior. I concern nothing and nobody. On October 24, you are going to see an actual Mexican warrior.”
Foster (25-3, 12 KOs), the WBC’s 130-pound titleholder, is coming off the most effective 12 months of his profession, having dismantled two-division champion Stephen Fulton earlier than outworking former featherweight titlist Raymond Ford in Houston in Could.
“That is the kind of battle each fighter goals about, and I am prepared for the problem,” Foster mentioned. “I do know I say this each time, however this really is the largest battle of my profession. I can not wait to placed on for Texas and present the world what ‘Shock’ Foster is all about.”
Emanuel Navarrete (left) and O’Shaquie Foster face off throughout Wednesday’s press convention forward of their Oct. 24 tremendous featherweight unification bout.
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Emanuel Navarrete (left) and O’Shaquie Foster face off throughout Wednesday’s press convention forward of their Oct. 24 tremendous featherweight unification bout.
The co-feature is private for me. I used to be ringside in Carson this summer time for the Diego Pacheco card and watched Albert “Chop Chop” Gonzalez put in work up shut. Now Gonzalez (18-0, 11 KOs) will get his largest platform but, a 10-round featherweight (126-pound) conflict with Fort Value’s Edward Vazquez (20-3, 6 KOs), a two-time world title challenger who has shared the ring with Joe Cordina and Rafael Espinoza.
Albert ‘Chop Chop’ Gonzalez speaks with media whereas holding his NABF title belt throughout Wednesday’s press convention forward of his Oct. 24 co-feature bout in opposition to Edward Vazquez.
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Albert ‘Chop Chop’ Gonzalez speaks with media whereas holding his NABF title belt throughout Wednesday’s press convention forward of his Oct. 24 co-feature bout in opposition to Edward Vazquez.
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Gonzalez enters off a second-round knockout of Aaron Alameda in July that netted him the vacant regional NABF title, the type of résumé-building belt that places a prospect on the doorstep of actual world-title rivalry. “Each battle has been a step up, and we have been passing each take a look at,” Gonzalez mentioned. Vazquez is not rolling out the welcome mat: “I am the primary actual take a look at of his profession. Come October 24, I plan on exhibiting everybody there are ranges to this.”
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Albert “Chop Chop” Gonzalez (left) and Edward Vazquez pose collectively forward of their Oct. 24 featherweight conflict.
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Rounding out the cardboard, tremendous light-weight (140-pound) contender Frank Martin (19-1-1, 13 KOs) makes his High Rank debut in opposition to an opponent nonetheless to be finalized, seeking to construct off a February draw with Nahir Albright.
Frank Martin speaks with media forward of his High Rank debut on the Oct. 24 card.
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Frank Martin speaks with media forward of his High Rank debut on the Oct. 24 card.
Navarrete-Foster, Gonzalez-Vazquez, Martin’s return and one further bout stream stay on DAZN starting at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. Tickets go on sale Friday, Sept. 11, at 10 a.m. CT by way of Ticketmaster.com.
