O’Shaquie Foster wants Emanuel Navarrete to know he won’t retreat in their October 24 junior lightweight unification bout. That promise sounds great for the cameras, yet planting his feet gives Navarrete the exact environment he thrives on.

“I’m gonna control the fight,” Foster told The Ring. “I’m gonna dominate from Round One. I ain’t never ran from nobody. I put punishment and pain to my opponents as well. That night, he’s gonna get a boxing lesson.”

Navarrete looked sharp in February when he stopped Eduardo “Sugar” Nunez inside ten rounds. It was a far crisper display than his May 2025 outing with Charly Suarez, which was halted in th