O'Shaquie Foster previews how fight with Emanuel Navarrete-Eduardo Nunez would go, repeats offer for Shakur Stevenson

O’Shaquie Foster is eagerly waiting to see how the super featherweight title unification fight between Emanuel Navarrete and Eduardo ‘Sugar’ Nunez unravels Saturday night at Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, and live on DAZN.

Foster, the WBC super featherweight world champion, has a winner in mind, but that is not stopping him from simulating how a matchup with either fighter would go.

“They’re both come-forward fighters,” Foster began telling DAZN News during a recent Zoom conference. “With Navarrete, I would just need to be a little more tricky, a little bit more unorthodox, awkward. I would approach it a little bit different as far as being awkward, just a lot of different things. I see with both of their styles, just me being sharp, staying focused through the fight, I could make it a great night.

That said, Foster getting a crack at whoever emerges victorious this weekend would present a scenario where three titles are on the line, with the missing piece toward undisputed glory at 130 pounds being WBA titleholder Lamont Roach.

“Even though I feel as if I’m the best in the division, we’ll be able to separate ourselves — one of us,” Foster said with excitement.

The 32-year-old Foster (24-3, 12 KOs) has seen his stock soar from his past two fights — first vindicating himself in a split-decision victory over Robson Conceicao to win his WBC super featherweight title back in November 2024. That came after many felt that 'Shock' was robbed by the same result in their initial fight about four months prior.

Then came December’s tilt against Stephen Fulton Jr. for the WBC interim lightweight title. Despite Foster entering as the WBC featherweight world champion, he was installed as the slight underdog by many oddsmakers against Foster, a former two-division world champion.

Not only did Foster defy odds, but he obliterated them, tendering a lopsided near-shutout of Fulton, beating the Philadelphia veteran with a sweet science masterclass.

“This fight with Fulton was kind of a redemption, put me back in the people’s eye, put me back where I need to be,” Foster touted. “It just showed the world, I’m one of the elite guys, and you can’t overlook me. It did a lot for me, for sure.”

That includes possibly making his future dance partner prospects hard to come by due to the matchup issues Foster presents, whether it’s working behind the jab or scrapping in the pocket.

“It’s hard to get guys to put their two feet in the ring with ‘Shock,’” his manager Keith Mills told  DAZN News. “He’s just that type of fighter, and everybody knows it. It’s well-known in the boxing industry. They don’t want to fight him.”

It might explain why he’s vocal about coveting the Navarrete-Nunez winner, while continuing to lobby for another star to join him in the ring too — Shakur Stevenson.

In the days after the pound-for-pound sensation defeated Teofimo Lopez to become the WBO super lightweight world champion, the WBC stripped Stevenson of his lightweight title for his refusal to fork over its $120,000 sanctioning fee, as reported by ESPN.

Well, Foster sees the fallout as a potential opportunity that he will continue to tell anybody who will listen.

“I want to make sure it’s known that there was an offer made to him that I would pay, I would take care of the sanctioning fees — the $100,000 or whatever — that he decided now he didn’t want to take care of,” said Foster about how he is willing to force Stevenson’s hand into a fight. “I’ll take care of that.

“He could keep his title, but he gotta fight me next,” he continued. “That’s the offer. The offer is out there.”

Now that Foster has delivered an eye-opening win, he is counting on the bigger fights to fall in line, even if he has to continue to call on them along the way.

“I wake up with a chip on my shoulder every day,” Foster insisted. “I’m earning my respect in this boxing game, but it ain’t where I want it.”

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