Foster and Stevenson are friends that could meet in the ring sometime soon
O’Shaquie Foster has described sparring sessions with Shakur Stevenson as like an “intense game of chess” that made the gym crowd fall silent.
Foster is ranked as the No.1 super featherweight contender with the WBC and is next in line for a shot at fellow American Stevenson.
The pair are friends, have shared countless rounds in the gym and Foster took Stevenson’s recent comments about him as being the second best 130lbs fighter in the world, as a mark of “respect”.
Stevenson, who also holds the WBO belt, said: “I think he would beat the rest of these guys; I just don’t think he would beat me.”
“Shakur and I are cool, we've got a past, we were really close at one point in time, so I expect him to say stuff like that, we've got a lot of respect for each other,” Foster told Probellum.com.
“In 2015 /2016, we were staying in Virginia together, before he turned pro, and we did some great sparring together and we've sparred in the last year or two also.
“It was great work. It's like an intense game of chess. It's fun. We had a lot of people just coming back every day to watch.
“There was a lot of people watching but it was kind of silent, it was so tactical, everybody was trying to see who can get the ups on who.”
