WBC super featherweight champion O’Shaquie Foster’s next fight may not be the unification we crave, but it could be a quality scrap, as Eddie Hearn tells The Stomping Ground that he’s working on a showdown with former featherweight champ Raymond Ford.
Foster (24-3, 12 KO) fought just once in 2015, handily beating an overweight Stephen Fulton in December. He’d previously split a pair of narrow bouts with Robson Conceicao, the first of which snapped an eight-year winning streak.
Ford (18-1-1, 8 KO),
best known for his dramatic come-from-behind finish of Otabek Kholmatov and subsequent tight loss to Nick Ball as part of Queensberry’s rout of Matchroom, stands at 3-0 since moving up from 126. He was supposed to face Anthony Cacace last year, but wound up beating perennial tough out Abraham Nova instead when “The Apache” suffered a back injury.
With Top Rank reportedly joining Matchroom under the DAZN umbrella, there’s a chance this could be one of many quality crossover fights in the near future.
