O’Shaquie Foster and Stephen Fulton are back on the schedule.
A third fight date has been assigned to the attractive matchup, which is officially back in play for December 6. BoxingScene has confirmed that their 12-round clash for Foster’s WBC 130lbs title will land on the December 6 Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on Prime Video Pay-Per-View event from Frost Bank Arena, home to the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs.
ESPN’s Andreas Hale was the first to report that a deal was reached this week.
The new date – headlined by the Isaac Cruz-Lamont Roach WBC 140lbs title fight - provides a home state title defense for Foster, 23-3 (12 KOs), a two-time titleholder from the greater Houston arena. The bout will be his first since he regained the WBC 130lbs belt from Robson Conceicao last November 2 in Verona, New York.
Philadelphia’s Fulton, 23-1 (8 KOs) will move up in weight, as he aims to become a three-division titleholder.
The bout was originally due to land on the targeted August 16 PBC on Prime Video PPV intended to have been headlined by the Gervonta “Tank” Davis-Lamont Roach Jnr rematch. However, Davis declined to move forward with the fight and the event as a whole was canceled.
Foster-Fulton then landed as the co-feature to the previously scheduled Sebastian Fundora-Keith Thurman WBC 154lbs title fight. The event was planned for October 25 in Las Vegas, but scrapped earlier this month after Fundora was forced to withdrew due to a reported training camp injury.
Foster will now go 13 months between fights, after a three-fight 2024 campaign.
The rate of activity last year came with its pitfalls, however. Foster suffered a highly questionable split decision defeat to Brazil’s Conceciao last July 6 in Newark, New Jersey. It ended his first WBC title reign, 17 months after his February 2023 victory over then-unbeaten Rey Vargas, which also took place in San Antonio.
Philadelphia’s Fulton became a two-division titlist with arguably his most impressive to date. He claimed a clear unanimous decision over Brandon Figueroa to win the WBC 126lbs belt on the February 1 PBC on PPV show from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
It marked Fulton’s second straight win, both which came at featherweight after a July 2023 knockout loss to Naoya Inoue to end his unified WBC/WBO junior featherweight title reign in Tokyo, Japan.
The win was also a repeat feat for Fulton, and in more dominant fashion than their first meeting. A November 2021 WBC/WBO unification bout between unbeaten 122lbs titlists saw Fulton prevail via majority decision in their Fight of the Year contender.
