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Emanuel Navarrete and O'Shaquie Foster meet Saturday in San Antonio with three titles on the line

The WBO and IBF champ faces the WBC champ at Frost Bank Center in a fight Top Rank calls a true 50-50.

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Close-up of a red boxing glove with a white strap at a boxing championship in San Antonio

Three super featherweight titles are on the line Saturday night in San Antonio. WBO and IBF champion Emanuel Navarrete meets WBC champion O'Shaquie Foster at Frost Bank Center, with the main card starting at 7 p.m. Central on DAZN.

Navarrete, the Mexican star known as "Vaquero," comes in at 40-2-1 with 33 knockouts. Foster, from Orange, Texas, is 25-3 with 12 knockouts and has the home-state crowd in his corner.

The two sat side by side at Thursday's final press conference in San Antonio, the last stop before fight week ends.

Two very different styles

Navarrete says he's fully healthy and has no excuses this time. "Physically, I'm recovered," he said. "There are no excuses now." His plan is simple. "We're going to put our face right in front of him," he said.

Foster believes he's peaking at the right time. "I definitely feel like I'm at my best right now," he said. He also explained why he took this fight instead of waiting for a bigger name. "We weren't going to sit around and wait for Shakur," he said. "That night, he's going to get a boxing lesson."

Top Rank president Todd duBoef calls it a true toss-up. "I think it's a 50-50 fight," he said. "With Navarrete, you have an absolute tornado coming at you."

On the undercard

Unbeaten featherweight Albert "Chop Chop" Gonzalez (18-0, 11 KOs) faces Edward Vazquez (20-3, 6 KOs) over 10 rounds in the co-feature. Former title challenger Frank Martin (19-1-1, 13 KOs) makes his Top Rank debut.

Also Saturday

Across the Atlantic, Dalton Smith defends his WBC super lightweight title against Alberto Puello in Sheffield, England, earlier in the day.

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