O'Shaquie Foster drops Emanuel Navarrete twice in 12th round to unify three titles
The WBC champion won a unanimous decision in San Antonio on scores of 118-108, 118-108 and 115-111, taking Navarrete's WBO and IBF super-featherweight belts.
O'Shaquie Foster knocked Emanuel Navarrete down twice in the 12th round on his way to a unanimous decision at the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio on Saturday night, unifying the WBC, WBO and IBF super-featherweight titles.
Two judges scored it 118-108 and the third 115-111 for Foster, who retained his WBC belt and took the WBO and IBF titles from Navarrete. The vacant Ring Magazine belt was also on the line in the main event of the Top Rank show, live on DAZN in the UK.
Navarrete got up from both knockdowns in the final round and lasted to the final bell.
Foster, from Orange, Texas, moves to 26-3 with 12 knockouts. At Friday's weigh-in he had predicted "a domination by me, 1 through 12". Navarrete came into the fight having unified the WBO and IBF belts with an 11th-round stoppage of Eduardo Nunez in February.
Earlier on the card, Albert Gonzalez knocked out Edward Vazquez in round two to retain his NABF featherweight title, and Frank Martin stopped Tarik Zaina in round seven to win the vacant NABO title.
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