Top Rank Says Winter Came Early in San Antonio. Somebody Warn the Man Who Thinks Climate Change Is a "Con Job."

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Top Rank posted it Sunday morning in giant letters: "WINTER CAME EARLY."

In South Texas. In October. I checked my thermostat, my therapist and the Constitution, in that order, and I'm here to tell you it was a boxing metaphor.

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Saturday night at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, WBC super featherweight champion O'Shaquie 'Shock' Foster (26-3, 12 KOs) beat WBO and IBF champion Emanuel 'Vaquero' Navarrete (40-3-1, 33 KOs) by unanimous decision, 118-108, 118-108 and 115-111. He walked in with one belt and walked out with three, plus the vacant Ring Magazine title. Kimster has the straight result and the whole undercard.

The man who called the weather. Foster told everybody at Thursday's press conference that he was ice water. Then he went out and proved it, which is a radical thing to do with a prediction.

Compare that with the most powerful man in the world, who stood at the United Nations in September 2025 and called climate change "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion," per AP, Reuters and the full transcript. In the same speech he said, "I'm really good at predicting things, you know?" and bragged about a campaign hat that says he was right about everything.

Foster doesn't need a hat. He has three belts, and a fourth one is the only forecast he's made.

The October surprise. Here's the part I can't stop staring at. Dan Rafael posted the official Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation scorecards, so I went through all 36 round scores. (I'm a parody columnist, and my Sunday is wide open.)

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Judges David Sutherland and Ellis Johnson both had Foster up 108-101 after 11 rounds. Mike Ross had it 105-104. One point. Ross gave Navarrete rounds 3, 4, 5, 9 and 10, which lines up with Navarrete coming on late.

Then the 12th. Foster dropped Navarrete twice, and all three judges scored it 10-7. If Navarrete takes that round 10-9 on Ross's card instead, it's 114-114, and Foster wins a majority decision, not a unanimous one. So the knockdowns didn't decide who won. They decided how clean the paperwork looked.

That, my friends, is an October surprise that showed up in October, on camera, in front of the voters. The most famous October surprise of my lifetime was a 2005 tape The Washington Post published on Oct. 7, 2016. This is a family boxing site, so I'm not going to quote it. Look it up and then go wash your eyes.

Seven out of twelve. The three judges agreed on seven rounds: 1, 2, 6, 7, 8 and 12 for Foster, and round 4 for Navarrete. Earlier the same day in Sheffield, the Smith-Puello cards agreed on three. Seven of 12 is what bipartisan consensus looks like. In Congress they'd need a commission to study it, and the commission would be defunded.

The promoter's private ballot. Then on Sunday, Top Rank boss Bob Arum told Fight Hub TV, per Boxing News 24, that he "had him slightly ahead going into the last round," meaning Navarrete. Three licensed judges, 33 round scores before the 12th, and not one card had Navarrete ahead. The closest, Ross, still had Foster up a point.

Now, I respect a man who keeps his own scorecard. I just know where that road goes. First you've got your own count, then you've got a guy on the phone asking a secretary of state to "find" some rounds, and next thing you know there's a slate of alternate judges in a hotel ballroom swearing they were certified. The official cards are filed with the State of Texas. Round 12 does not need a recount.

The loser. Navarrete, per Top Rank's release: "In this sport, it's about styles. And his style was better than mine today. Congrats to him." Then he said he was content with his performance. Top Rank posted the two of them embracing with the caption "From one warrior to another."

I'm not going to make the obvious joke. I already made it after Dubois-Wardley 2. I'll just say Navarrete is a three-division champion with 40 wins, and he handled a loss better than some people handle a weather map.

What Foster earned. The 33-year-old from Orange, Texas, lost the WBC belt to Robson Conceição by split decision in July 2024, won it back four months later, then beat Stephen Fulton and Raymond Ford before Saturday. Per Top Rank, people said he didn't have power, and he answered with two knockdowns in the last round. "I want to become undisputed," he said. "All I need is one more."

He told DAZN he wants the winner of Anthony Cacace vs. Nick Ball. And with Shakur Stevenson a free agent, there's a much louder name out there too. Follow Foster and Navarrete on their Boxbid pages, because neither of them is going anywhere quiet.

No purses were released for Saturday, and I'm not going to make one up. That's the other guy's department. When Foster's undisputed fight gets signed, I'll be in Guess the Purse with a number that would make a hedge fund blush. Until then, Canelo-Mbilli is Saturday, and you can call it for free in Fight Picker. Be right, and you won't even need a hat. Then come tell me how cold it was in the community.

My verdict. Foster by a clean margin and a cleaner 12th. Climate is real, ice water is real, and the forecast for 130 pounds is one more belt and then a very big phone call. I'll be in a parka.

Sources

• Boxing News 24, "Bob Arum Had Emanuel Navarrete Ahead Against O'Shaquie Foster" (Oct. 25, 2026; Arum quote to Fight Hub TV)
• Top Rank press release, "O'Shaquie Foster Unifies World Titles with Victory Over Emanuel Navarrete" (press@toprank.com to info@boxbid.io, Oct. 24, 2026; records, scores, Foster and Navarrete quotes, Foster's age and hometown)
• Top Rank on X, "WINTER CAME EARLY. Who's next" (Oct. 25, 2026)
• Top Rank on X, "From one warrior to another" (Oct. 24, 2026)
• Dan Rafael on X, official Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation scorecards (Oct. 24, 2026)
• Boxbid, Kimster's result report (vacant Ring Magazine title; Foster's DAZN call for the Cacace-Ball winner)
• Top Rank, "O'Shaquie Foster Inks Multi-Year Extension with Top Rank" (Aug. 27, 2026; Foster career line)
• Reuters, Trump tells U.N. climate change is a "con job" (Sept. 23, 2025)
• AP report on Trump's U.N. climate remarks (Sept. 23, 2025)
• Miller Center transcript, Sept. 23, 2025 address to the 80th U.N. General Assembly ("I'm really good at predicting things," the hat)
• The Washington Post, David A. Fahrenthold, "Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005" (Oct. 7, 2016)
• The Washington Post, Amy Gardner and Paulina Firozi, "Here's the full transcript and audio of the call between Trump and Raffensperger" (Jan. 3, 2021)