Foster floors Navarrete twice to seize undisputed super-featherweight dream

O'Shaquie Foster put Emanuel Navarrete down twice in the twelfth round on his way to a clear unanimous decision victory at the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, according to Sky Sports Boxing.

The win brought the WBC, WBO and IBF super-featherweight belts together under Foster's name, leaving him one title short of undisputed status in the 130lb division.

Yahoo Sports reported that Foster, now 26-3 with 12 knockouts, made his night by refusing to trade carelessly with an opponent known for unorthodox and heavy punching, instead keeping his guard high and picking his moments with quick combinations before resetting defensively.

Navarrete arrived in Texas as a three-division champion, but the two knockdowns in the final round confirmed a fight that had swung decisively Foster's way by the close.

The victory capped an eleven-month stretch in which Foster also beat Stephen Fulton and Raymond Ford, a sequence Yahoo Sports likened to David Benavidez's run through Caleb Plant, Demetrius Andrade and Oleksandr Gvozdyk across 2023 and 2024 to force his way into pound-for-pound discussions.

Only the WBA's Anthony Cacace now stands between Foster and sole claim to the division, and the American wasted no time naming it as his target.

"I want to go undisputed," Foster said afterwards. "I only need one more [belt] to become undisputed [champion] and fulfill my biggest dream."

Cacace is due to defend that WBA strap against Nick Ball on 19 December, a fight Foster is watching closely given his own admission that he has "one or two fights left in me" at super-featherweight.

Ringside for Saturday's card was Vasiliy Lomachenko, the three-division champion who has not fought since May 2024 and announced his retirement in June 2025.

Foster indicated he wants Lomachenko to shake off that inactivity with a tune-up fight before any meeting between them, framing the contest as one he would relish on pure technical terms.

"When I beat him, I don't want no excuses," Foster said of Lomachenko. "He's been retired." Asked about the stylistic match-up itself, he added simply: "I love it."

Beyond his remaining time at 130lbs, Foster has already identified his first assignment at lightweight: a showdown with Shakur Stevenson.

"I'll go see Shakur," Foster said, naming the pound-for-pound operator and four-division champion as the fight he wants once he moves up.

Stevenson, who was among those taking note of Saturday's result, posted that Foster had shown his level and that the challenge was one that would "get me out of bed," adding he would be ready "whenever he's ready" once his own undisputed campaign was complete.

Between the Cacace-Ball winner, a prospective clash with Lomachenko and the mooted Stevenson fight, Foster's 2027 schedule is already taking shape as a run that could decide both the undisputed super-featherweight champion and his next direction at lightweight.