{"id":111220,"date":"2024-02-02T12:40:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T18:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/foster-entrena-duro-para-enfrentar-a-nova\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T13:31:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T19:31:37","slug":"foster-determined-to-prevail-over-nova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/foster-determined-to-prevail-over-nova\/","title":{"rendered":"Foster determined to prevail over Nova"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Foster determined to prevail over Nova<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>World Boxing Council super featherweight champion O\u2019Shaquie \u201cIce Water\u201d Foster will make his second world title defense, this time against Abraham \u201cEl Super\u201d Nova on Friday, February 16 at The Theater at Madison Square Garden.<br \/>\nFoster (21-2, 10 KOs) is undefeated in 11 fights since a split decision loss to Rolando Chinea in July 2016. He returned to the ring in December 2017 with renewed purpose and with decorated trainer Bobby Benton his corner.<\/p>\n<p>Since moving to Houston to train with Benton, Foster has fulfilled the promise he showed during a 100-plus fight amateur career that included a PAL national title in 2010 and an alternate spot on the US Olympic team in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>He won the WBC world title in February with a one-sided decision over Mexican star Rey Vargas. Eight months later, he defended his title with a 12th round knockout of Eduardo \u201cRocky\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez. Hernandez had a considerable lead on two of the judges\u2019 scorecards at the time of the stoppage. In November, Foster signed a long-term promotional pact with Top Rank.<\/p>\n<p>Nova (23-1, 16 KOs), born in Puerto Rico and raised in Albany, New York, fought 200 fights during a storied amateur career that included victories over Frank Martin, Richardson Hitchins and Nahir Albright. Nova signed a co-promotion pact with Top Rank in early 2020 after spending the beginning of his career scoring wins in Belgium, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay and at club shows in the northeastern United States.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2022, he suffered the only setback of his career, a one-punch knockout at the hands of prominent Cuban Robeisy Ram\u00edrez. Following this, Nova returned to super featherweight and scored victories over veteran Adam Lopez and former world champion Jonathan Romero.<\/p>\n<p>Foster is putting himself through a grueling preparation to prove he\u2019s the finest and most accomplished super featherweight.<\/p>\n<p>Promoted by Top Rank, in association with Murphys Boxing and 12 Rounds Promotion, Foster-Nova will air live on ESPN, ESPN Deportes and ESPN+ at 9 p.m. ET\/6 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/909194186?h=ec28280407\" width=\"720\" height=\"1280\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/foster-training-fo-nova-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-103462\" src=\"https:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/foster-training-fo-nova-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1334\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/foster-training-for-nova-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-103463\" src=\"https:\/\/suljosblog.com\/suljos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/foster-training-for-nova-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1342\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foster determined to prevail over Nova World Boxing Council super featherweight champion O\u2019Shaquie \u201cIce Water\u201d Foster will make his second world title defense, this time against<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":111215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}