The Ring placed O'Shaquie Foster at No. 10 on its pound-for-pound list in place of Oscar Collazo; no next opponent or return date for the unified champion is announced.
What we know
- The Ring's Oct. 29 pound-for-pound list places O'Shaquie Foster at No. 10, replacing Oscar Collazo.
- Foster beat Emanuel Navarrete on Oct. 24 in San Antonio to win the WBO and IBF titles and retain the WBC belt, with scores of 118-108, 118-108 and 115-111.
- The Ring also awarded Foster its vacant 130-pound championship; Anthony Cacace still holds the WBA title.
- The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board placed Foster eighth on its own pound-for-pound list on Oct. 26.
- Foster's record is 26-3 with 12 knockouts.
- Cacace faces Nick Ball in Belfast on Dec. 19; no next fight is announced for Foster.
O'Shaquie Foster has a new line on his résumé that no belt can give him: a place among The Ring's ten best fighters in any weight class. He takes No. 10 and Oscar Collazo drops out, a formal change on the magazine's Oct. 29 list rather than a passing endorsement.
The magazine pointed to two wins. The first is his Oct. 24 victory over Emanuel Navarrete in San Antonio, where he added the WBO and IBF titles to the WBC belt, dropped Navarrete twice in the twelfth round and won 118-108, 118-108 and 115-111. The second is his May 30 majority-decision win over Raymond Ford. The Ring also gave him its vacant 130-pound title. The announcement says his only loss since July 2016 was a split decision to Robson Conceicao in July 2024.
Foster, 33, now stands at 26-3 with 12 knockouts, according to the WBC. Navarrete, 31, falls to 40-3-1. The WBC credited Foster's control of distance and technical precision, and said Navarrete accepted that the better style won on the night.
He is not yet undisputed. Anthony Cacace still holds the WBA belt and faces Nick Ball in Belfast on Dec. 19. Our earlier reporting had Foster targeting that title after the Navarrete fight, and The Ring keeps Navarrete first among its divisional contenders with Cacace second.
The ranking also arrives amid an argument over the year's best fighter. Ryan Garcia has claimed the Fighter of the Year title, Foster answered him over Ford and Benn, and Terence Crawford replied to Garcia on X. A rankings spot does not settle that debate, and no annual award has been decided.
Watch for the Cacace-Ball result in Belfast. Dan Rafael has reported that Foster is probable to face Vasiliy Lomachenko next, but nothing is announced, and the rankings news names no opponent or date.
The magazine pointed to two wins. The first is his Oct. 24 victory over Emanuel Navarrete in San Antonio, where he added the WBO and IBF titles to the WBC belt, dropped Navarrete twice in the twelfth round and won 118-108, 118-108 and 115-111. The second is his May 30 majority-decision win over Raymond Ford. The Ring also gave him its vacant 130-pound title. The announcement says his only loss since July 2016 was a split decision to Robson Conceicao in July 2024.
Foster, 33, now stands at 26-3 with 12 knockouts, according to the WBC. Navarrete, 31, falls to 40-3-1. The WBC credited Foster's control of distance and technical precision, and said Navarrete accepted that the better style won on the night.
He is not yet undisputed. Anthony Cacace still holds the WBA belt and faces Nick Ball in Belfast on Dec. 19. Our earlier reporting had Foster targeting that title after the Navarrete fight, and The Ring keeps Navarrete first among its divisional contenders with Cacace second.
The ranking also arrives amid an argument over the year's best fighter. Ryan Garcia has claimed the Fighter of the Year title, Foster answered him over Ford and Benn, and Terence Crawford replied to Garcia on X. A rankings spot does not settle that debate, and no annual award has been decided.
Watch for the Cacace-Ball result in Belfast. Dan Rafael has reported that Foster is probable to face Vasiliy Lomachenko next, but nothing is announced, and the rankings news names no opponent or date.
- Summary
- The Ring placed O'Shaquie Foster at No. 10 on its pound-for-pound list in place of Oscar Collazo; no next opponent or return date for the unified champion is announced.
- Key points (one per line)
- The Ring's Oct. 29 list puts Foster at No. 10, replacing Oscar Collazo.
Foster also holds The Ring's vacant 130-pound title after beating Emanuel Navarrete.
The Transnational Boxing Rankings Board ranks him eighth in a separate list.
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