Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and Caleb Plant have a scheduled boxing bout for the Super middleweight title on November 6th at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. However on the 21st of September at their fight presser at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Canelo shoved Plant, and then Plant went walking up and threw a left hook that Canelo dodged and then caught him with a counter punch that not only landed but put a noticeable cut under Plant’s right eye.
The tale of the fight is Canelo is an experienced boxer and holds a very credentialed boxing resume of 56-1-2, his only loss being to Floyd Mayweather the 50-0 boxer who is widely considered the greatest boxer of this generation not only for his punching power but for his actual technical boxing movement. Caleb Plant on the other side is 21-0, so he doesn’t know what a loss is yet, but he is facing his toughest challenge yet.
Why? Those are a few of the questions as to why combat athletes not just boxers as the sport of MMA and its top organization the UFC has had plenty of incidents of shoving and ‘heated exchanges’ from their opponent as a way to mainly set the tone, get in their opponents head, as well as it juices up the fans and the media to have to cover and talk about it which is just more coverage and hype before the actual fight.
Canelo may have shoved Plant as a way to show him that there are levels in boxing and he believes that Plant isn’t on his own. In a way, I believe that kind of arrogance against an undefeated underdog like that can open the door for your own loss especially since it’s not the fight day yet, but I do believe just like any sport especially a sport like boxing that Plant will come in with a puncher’s chance and that if Canelo doesn’t actually go in now for a knockout in the actual bout it could leave him vulnerable because Plant has the reach and height advantage which I believe he can try to strategically work at as a key to his shot at springing the upset.
