O'Shaquie Foster and Stephen Fulton originally struck a deal for their fight in June.

Six months later, after several false starts, the WBC junior lightweight champion Foster (23-3, 12 KOs) and the featherweight titleholder-turned-challenger Fulton (23-1, 8 KOs) finally square off Saturday at the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas, as part of a PBC on Prime Video PPV.

Foster and Fulton were originally supposed to fight August 16 on a Gervonta Davis-Lamont Roach Jr. rematch undercard that never came to be. They were then slotted for the Sebastian Fundora-Keith Thurman undercard on October 25, but the event was cancelled two weeks prior when Fundora suffered a hand injury.

Alas, Foster and Fulton found a home with the card headlined by Isaac Cruz and Roach. After several press conferences and countless back-and-forth exchanges, Foster and Fulton can finally pull back from verbal sparring and focus on actually fighting.

"This last time when the fight got pushed back it definitely pissed me off because we were so close," Foster said during a press conference. "But it just gave me more time to prepare. I don't ever have problems with weight, so that wasn't affected. I'm just more prepared mentally and physically.

"I'm glad this fight is happening. It's supposed to have happened a couple of times. We're fighting, so there's animosity period. It's not personal, but he's trying to take something off my plate."

Fulton echoed those sentiments.

"I really wanted this fight to happen this year and did a couple of things to make sure it happened. The extra time might give me an advantage, but we'll see … I don’t have anything else to say to O’Shaquie, there's nothing to talk about, time to make it happen.

I'm coming to fight as usual and coming to win. Whatever happens, happens. But I'm coming."

Fulton is the WBC featherweight titleholder, and stepping up to 130 pounds in hopes of becoming a three-division titleholder. Fulton beat Brandon Figueroa in a February rematch more convincingly than the first time to notch the 126-pound he carries.

It was a much more solid performance for Fulton than his fight against Carlos Castro in September 2024. In that fight – his first since being knocked out by Naoya Inoue in July 2023 – Fulton was dropped and fortunate to sneak by with a split decision win.

Foster, no stranger to cutting it close in his own contests, is fueling his fire with Fulton's fiery bravado.

"All of this talk is motivation to me, I can’t lie. I'm having fun with it, and just ready to put on a show," said Foster.

"We've said a lot, but on December 6 we're coming out there to put on a great show. This fight has been coming for the longest and I'm ready to dominate. He's coming into my stomping grounds and I feel good about it.

"I know he made a mistake trying to make this fight period. I’m gonna go in there, dominate and show the world why he doesn't belong in the ring with me."