Emanuel Navarrete

Emanuel Navarrete lost his WBO and IBF super featherweight titles on 24 October 2026, when O'Shaquie Foster won a 12-round unanimous decision in San Antonio [1]. Navarrete is known as "Vaquero" [3] [10]. He first won a world title in December 2018 [9].

The fight in San Antonio

The bout was set for Saturday, 24 October, at the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio and streamed live on DAZN [2]. Top Rank's announcement called it a "three-belt unification showdown": Navarrete held the WBO and IBF titles, and Foster was the WBC champion [2].

The live report scored the decision 118-108, 115-111 and 118-108 [1]. All three judges had Foster ahead [1]. The report says Foster knocked Navarrete down twice in the 12th round, and that Foster retained the WBC title and claimed the IBF and WBO titles [1]. Spanish-language coverage names the bodies as the Organización Mundial de Boxeo, the Federación Internacional de Boxeo and the Consejo Mundial de Boxeo [4].

Pre-fight records differ between sources. One report lists Navarrete at 40-2-1 before the fight [1], while BoxingOnly lists 40-3-1 [3], so this page does not quote a record.

Recent bouts before the loss

The preview says Navarrete retained the WBO title and claimed the IBF belt in February [5]. Ring's list of his recent fights includes an 11th-round stoppage of Eduardo Nunez on 28 February [8].

His bout with Charly Suarez in May 2025 was ruled a no-contest after seven completed rounds [8]. Navarrete had originally won by technical unanimous decision, but the result was changed [8].

Foster came into the fight as the WBC champion with five successful defences of that title [5]. In an interview from the World Boxing Council's convention in Hamburg, Germany, in December 2024, Foster said he wanted a unification fight with Navarrete [6].

From Dogboe to the WBO title

Navarrete won the WBO's 122-pound title by beating Isaac Dogboe in December 2018 [9]. He kept it in May 2019, stopping Dogboe in the final round of the rematch [9]. The WBO calls that division junior featherweight, while Boxing News Online lists the 2018 win as a super-bantamweight title [7].

In August 2019 he stopped Francisco De Vaca in the third round, after knocking him down in the second [10]. De Vaca came in at 20-1 with six knockouts, and the fight drew 3,944 fans to Banc of California Stadium [10]. The WBO president, Francisco "Paco" Valcárcel, called Navarrete "the best fighter in that weight class" [10]. The WBO's January 2020 article calls him "boxing's most active world champion" and lists stoppage wins in August, September and December 2019 [9]. At that point his record was 30-1, with 26 KOs [9].

Moving up in weight

Navarrete won the WBO featherweight title in October 2020 and the WBO super-featherweight title in February 2023 [7]. He then tried for a lightweight title. He lost that bid on 18 May 2024 [7].

Background

His date of birth is 17 January 1995 [3]. The same profile gives his birthplace as San Juan Zitlaltepec, Distrito Federal, Mexico, and his nationality as Mexican [3].

What comes next

The live report says the winner was expected to face mandatory challenger Charly Suarez [1]. That is the next step for Foster, not for Navarrete, and the sources checked do not give a date for it.