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. It will likely be troublesome for Foster to withstand his traditional step again type that he’s used his whole professional profession.

Foster, 31, misplaced his WBC title to the 2016 Olympic gold medalist earlier this 12 months on July sixth in Newark, Jersey. In that struggle, Foster didn’t throw sufficient punches, preventing defensively along with his Shakur-esque type and getting completely out-hustled by the Brazilian go-getter Conceicao.

Apparently, Foster felt he’d executed sufficient to deserve the victory, and he nonetheless feels that manner three months later. That’s troubling as a result of it was apparent from watching the struggle that he bought outworked within the spherical of the struggle by Conceicao and deserved to lose by a good wider margin.

The scores

116-112 – Conceicao
115-113 – Conceicao
116-112 – Foster

Foster had fought in the identical manner in his earlier struggle in opposition to Abraham Nova on February sixteenth at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York, getting out-worked by him as properly. The judges, nonetheless, gave Foster a 12-round cut up resolution, however loads of followers felt that Nova ought to have been given the choice win. I watched the struggle stay, and I had it for Nova 117-111.

Foster’s type of preventing, 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 in short spurts after which retreats and appears to make his opponents miss the best way 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 bought two of the very same fighters within the co-feature and the principle occasion. It’s no marvel that they started piling out of the venue throughout the Shakur struggle as a result of they’d been bored.

Prime Rank made a mistake by placing Shakur and Foster on the identical card. They will’t afford to maintain doing that as a result of it’s a witch’s brew for the followers.

“The struggle was simple. I didn’t see the place the judges bought that call. I solely noticed that I may have been extra energetic and let my fingers go in sure conditions extra,” stated Foster about his loss to Robson Conceição earlier this 12 months on July sixth in Newark, New Jersey.

“There are loads of issues I can do in that ring. I really feel like I may have simply put extra mixtures,” stated O’Shaquie. “I may have executed just a little bit extra. I’m seeking to let my fingers go extra. If you happen to watch his fights, he fights the identical manner each time. He doesn’t change it up an excessive amount of.”

Foster is just too set in his methods for him to vary. That Shakur pull-back type that Foster has is just too well-ingrained in him with out breaking him as a fighter if he tries to struggle with aggression, and I don’t assume he can bodily change.