Greg Hackett did not need a wide margin on Saturday night. He just needed the jab.
Breaking down O’Shaquie Foster vs Emanuel Navarrete on MillCity Boxing before the fight, Hackett called it a hell of a fight and laid out the exact terms it would be won on. Navarrete, he said, would have to make it an awkward experience for Foster. Foster’s job was the opposite: keep doing what he has been doing — use his legs, box, work off the jab, move in and out — and the night gets easier. The one trap was pride. If Foster let it turn into a tough-guy, toe-to-toe rumble, Hackett said, that is Navarrete’s alley, not his.
Then came the pick, and he did not dress it up: “I got O Shaki by a hair.” The reason, he stressed, was the jab — and because he likes Foster. He also said the fight would go the distance.
Score that card today. Foster won a unanimous decision — 118-108, 118-108, 115-111 — outlanding Navarrete 157-99 behind exactly the jab-and-movement game Hackett described, and the fight went all 12. “By a hair” undersold the scorecards, but the how and the how-long were dead on. That is what a real breakdown looks like the morning after.
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“We don’t know if Davis is coming back”
The other name on the segment was Gervonta “Tank” Davis. The discussion started with Davis trolling Edgar Berlanga’s new song — a song Hackett admitted he had not heard until Davis made it viral, and liked a little. His read on the trolling itself: “I don’t think Tank was trolling.”
What followed was less funny. Hackett described a Davis who is bored at home — a fighter who, in his telling, cannot trust himself outside, is too unpredictable out there, and catches a case every time he goes out, so he stays in once the games and movies run out. Asked whether Davis’s eventual pop-out would look like Mike Tyson’s comeback, the answer drew the line plainly: with Tyson, everybody knew he was coming back. With Davis, nobody knows if he is coming back at all.
Puello gets stopped late — if anybody does
Hackett rounded it out with Alberto Puello vs Dalton Smith, a fight he called great and genuinely either-way. Puello, he said, fights off the other man’s temperament — come at him hard and fast and he speeds up a little without getting flustered, staying sharp and touching you. The question is firepower: does Puello have enough to keep Smith off him, when Smith is mean, does not care what you are doing, and just comes to work?
Pressed for how it ends, Hackett gave the one stoppage pick of the segment: if somebody gets stopped, it is Puello — “like in the ninth, 10th round. Like the 10th.”
Foster cashed. Puello–Smith is the receipt still waiting to be checked.
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