O'Shaquie Foster became a world champion for the first time at the Alamodome in San Antonio three years ago. On Saturday, October 24, he's back in the same city trying to become the clear No. 1 at 130 pounds, and the man in his way is Emanuel Navarrete, the Mexican pressure fighter who holds the WBO and IBF belts and has spent a decade breaking people down. Navarrete vs Foster at the Frost Bank Center is a three-belt unification over 12 rounds, and it's the best fight the super featherweight division can make right now.
Foster took the long way
Foster, born in Orange, Texas, spent years as a talented contender nobody seemed in a hurry to fight. His chance came against Rey Vargas in February 2023, and he took it, winning a unanimous decision at the Alamodome for the vacant WBC super featherweight title. Vargas was a reigning featherweight champion who had moved up to face him.
The reign since has been bumpy. In July 2024 he lost the belt to Robson Conceição on a split decision in Newark that plenty of people at ringside disputed. Four months later he won it back, again on a split decision, and he's held it since. His last fight was a majority decision over the unbeaten Raymond Ford in Houston on May 30, another close one against a slick opponent.
He's 33 and 25-3, with only 12 knockouts. Foster wins with timing, footwork and a sharp jab. He's rarely looked comfortable against fighters who won't give him room to work, and that is Navarrete's entire game.
The Vaquero
Navarrete comes from San Juan Zitlaltepec in the State of Mexico and has held world titles in three weight classes: WBO super bantamweight, WBO featherweight, and now the WBO and IBF at super featherweight. He's 40-2-1 with 33 knockouts, which tells you most of what you need to know. He punches from strange angles, keeps up a punishing work rate for 12 rounds and wears people out.
He's had bad nights too. His 34-fight unbeaten run ended in May 2024, when Denys Berinchyk beat him on a split decision for the vacant WBO lightweight title. He dropped back to 130 and stopped Óscar Valdez with a body shot in the sixth that December, his second win over his countryman. A May 2025 fight with Charly Suarez ended in controversy and was later changed to a no contest. Then on February 28 this year, in Glendale, Arizona, he stopped Eduardo Núñez in the 11th to add the IBF belt to his WBO title.
He can be hurt, though. Liam Wilson put him down in the fourth round in 2023 before Navarrete came back to stop him in the ninth. If you're a counterpuncher like Foster, that's the fight you study.
Navarrete vs Foster: fight time
Top Rank lists DAZN's main broadcast from 8:00 p.m. ET, which is 7:00 p.m. in San Antonio and 00:00 UTC on Sunday. The WBC has it an hour later, so check DAZN's schedule on the day. Main events on these cards usually go about three hours into the broadcast, so the ring walk estimates below assume roughly 11:00 p.m. ET.
| Location | Broadcast start | Main event (approx.) |
|---|---|---|
| San Antonio (CDT) | 7:00 p.m. Sat | 10:00 p.m. Sat |
| Eastern (ET) | 8:00 p.m. Sat | 11:00 p.m. Sat |
| Pacific (PT) | 5:00 p.m. Sat | 8:00 p.m. Sat |
| UK | 1:00 a.m. BST Sun | 3:00 a.m. GMT Sun |
| Mexico City | 6:00 p.m. Sat | 9:00 p.m. Sat |
| India (IST) | 5:30 a.m. Sun | 8:30 a.m. Sun |
| Sydney (AEDT) | 11:00 a.m. Sun | 2:00 p.m. Sun |
The two UK columns use different zones because British clocks go back at 2:00 a.m. BST on Sunday, in the middle of the broadcast.
The undercard
There's more here than filler. Albert "Chop Chop" Gonzalez meets Edward Vazquez over 10 rounds at featherweight in the co-feature, and Frank Martin faces Tarik Zaina at super lightweight, also over 10. Two 22-year-old bantamweights who were rivals as amateurs, Steven Navarro and Emanuel Moreno, fight for the vacant NABO title. The earlier undercard is set to stream on DAZN and on the Top Rank and DAZN YouTube channels.
Watching it
DAZN has the card in the US, Mexico, the UK and most of its other markets, and the full lineup is on the Top Rank event page. We're showing the whole night free in HD with no signup on our boxing streams hub, or in Spanish on boxeo en vivo.
It's a long day if you want it to be. UFC 333 runs from Abu Dhabi earlier on Saturday; our UFC 333 guide has the times and the stream is on the UFC streams page.
How I see it going
The early rounds of Navarrete vs Foster should belong to Foster. He's the cleaner boxer, and his jab and lateral movement can make Navarrete miss and look ragged for a while. The trouble is that Foster's biggest nights keep going to the cards, and several of his title fights have been split or majority decisions. Over 12 rounds, Navarrete's volume and body work usually take over.
I expect Foster to bank rounds early, Navarrete to start closing the gap around the sixth, and the whole thing to get rougher as it goes. Navarrete by unanimous decision, or a late stoppage if Foster's legs go, and he leaves San Antonio holding three of the four belts at 130.
