O’Shaquie Foster made the second protection of his WBC tremendous featherweight title, profitable a split-decision over Abraham Nova in his Prime Rank debut on Friday, February 16.
The bout was nearer than anticipated and a tactical affair, one which confirmed off a trait that coach Bobby Benton has grown accustomed to with Foster; a aptitude for the dramatic.
Foster stopped Eduardo ‘Rocky’ Hernandez within the twelfth and closing spherical of a combat he was dropping on the scorecards and in a detailed combat, Foster dropped Nova within the twelfth spherical to edge out the victory.
Foster’s coach Benton has talked about Foster gutting it out.
“Shock did what he all the time does,” Benton defined. “He finds a solution to get via it, and I instructed him within the eleventh spherical, we have to put him on his ass. He did and that simply exhibits how good he’s.
“The entire thing with him is being actual with him. After most if not all of our fights, he says, ‘Thanks for being actual with me’, and I’m going, ‘Look, I’m not going to mislead you, you aren’t a fighter that must be pumped up’. I simply instructed him that is too shut. We might be down on one among these scorecards. He was like, ‘Actually?’ I used to be like ‘Yeah.’
“He had [Nova] damage within the eleventh spherical. I want to look at it once more, and I believed we had a reasonably good eleventh spherical, however all three judges gave Nova the spherical. That was kinda bizarre to me – we had him out.”
“The eleventh spherical I used to be pushing on him [Foster], ‘We’d like the final two rounds’. Shock went to him, was touchdown clear pictures, and I didn’t know the scores till [the fight ended]. So I used to be like, ‘Rattling, they gave [Nova] the eleventh spherical?’ The nook knew he was damage, they kicked the water over to the center of the ring and took his time cleansing up.”
The judges noticed the bout a break up resolution in favor of Foster, 115-112, 116-111 for Foster and 114-113 for Nova; the knockdown didn’t outline the victory, however sealed any doubt one may need had.
“The underside line is Shock did what he wanted to do to win,” Benton added. “Clearly we are going to make some changes with what we do with the load reduce and that can be that.”
The 30-year-old Foster is 22-2, with 12 KOs, whereas Nova is now 23-2, with 16 KOs.
