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Both Emanuel Navarrete and O'Shaquie Foster made weight for tomorrow night’s (Saturday, October 24) WBC, WBO and IBF World junior-lightweight unification title fight, broadcast live globally on DAZN (8:00 pm ET) from the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas.
Navarrete, 40-2-1 (33 KOs), who scaled 130 lbs and Foster, 25-3 (12 KOs), who weighed 129.8 lbs, will meet in the night’s 12-round main event, the winner of which will be just one major title away from becoming 130lbs. division’s first undisputed champion of the modern era.
Mexico’s three-division world champion Navarrete will be making the sixth defense of the WBO belt he won by stopping Liam Wilson in nine rounds in 2023 and the first defense of the IBF strap he won by stopping Eduardo Nunez in 11 rounds in February of this year.
Navarrete also previously held the WBO junior featherweight title from 2018 to 2020 and the WBO featherweight title from 2020 to 2023.
Two-time WBC junior-lightweight champ Foster of Houston will be making the second defense of the title he regained from Robson Conceicao in November 2024.