Not Your Ordinary Beef… Not your Ordinary Tea…Not Your Ordinary Cac…Canelo v Plant Sho PPV Nov 6th
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when are they going to announce an undercard for this?
Plant: Canelo Looked Beatable Against Mayweather, Lara, Golovkin, Kovalev, Saunders
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BY SEAN NAM
Published Tue Sep 21, 2021, 08:23 AM EDT
As the saying goes, it’s not always about if you win but how you win that matters inside the squared circle.
IBF super middleweight titleholder Caleb Plant would probably agree with that dictum as it relates to his forthcoming full unification title bout against boxing kingpin Canelo Alvarez, who owns the WBC/WBO/WBA belts, on Nov. 6 in Las Vegas. The fight will headline a Showtime Pay-Per-View card.
Though Plant (21-0, 12 KOs) figures to be a sizable underdog in the bout, the Nashville native is not lacking for confidence. Certainly, it seems that he has not been swayed by all the pound-for-pound discourse in recent years that has seemingly given Alvarez an aura of invincibility.
“He’s been beat before,” Plant said on the PBC Podcast. “Honestly he’s looked beatable in a lot of his bigger fights.”
Alvarez, of course, has only lost once in the professional ranks, which came at the hands of Floyd Mayweather in 2013. His win against Erislandy Lara, in a 154-pound title fight, in 2014, was also close and controversial. More recently, Alvarez drew with Gennadiy Golovkin in their middleweight title matchup in 2017, a fight many believed the Kazakh deserved to win; their rematch was also a close affair, but Alvarez wound up earning a decision.
“He looked beatable against Lara,” Plant said. “He got schooled by Floyd [Mayweather]. He lost the first fight to Triple G [note: the fight ended in a draw] and it was a really close fight the second time. It was a really close fight with him and [Sergey] Kovalev as well."
Alvarez (56-1-2, 38 KOs) knocked out Kovalev in the 11th round of their light heavyweight title tilt in 2019, in what was Alvarez’s first foray at 175.
“[Alvarez] nor anyone else, any of his fans, is going to be able to convince me that the guy is unbeatable, that this is some David and Goliath story,” Plant continued. “That’s not my mentality going into this fight.”
Plant also thinks Billy Joe Saunders, Alvarez’s last opponent, gave the Mexican a run for his money for as long as that fight lasted. Alvarez stopped Saunders inside eight rounds in their super middleweight title bout last May. Saunders suffered a broken orbital bone in that fight.
“I thought Billy Joe was having a lot of success and doing a lot of good things,” said Plant. “But he got caught with a shot and that can happen to anybody in boxing at any time. That doesn’t mean that [Canelo’s] unbeatable.”
reservoirdogs
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Floyd and Lara... why bring them up from near 10 years ago? Hardly relevant by now.
GGG - now that's more recent but still Canelo got better and Plant fights nothing like GGG
Kovalev - Kovalev was afraid to commit to anything and got brutally stopped, idk abut that even if you had him winning those rounds
BJS - Canelo was ahead on everyone's except Mannix's card
and BJS got his face broken by an uppercut, again, not the best exampleHe should just have said Jacobs, that's closer to his style than Golovkin and gave Canelo a pretty close (but not controversial) fight, did better than BJS or Kovalev imo.
I get it though, he hypes himself up, he doesn't want to view his opponent as some larger than life demi god who can't be beaten and that's okay, Canelo isn't unbeatable either, just don't think those examples are good or if they are they are hardly relevant now or to Plant's case. We'll see
ChocolateGiddyUp
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Plant a real 168 
not no 154 who moved up in weight… or a weak ass euro Cac who gets hurt from punches to the arm
not no 154 who moved up in weight… or a weak ass euro Cac who gets hurt from punches to the arm
FreedMind
DOPAMINE FOR MY BABY!!
Plant a real 168
not no 154 who moved up in weight… or a weak ass euro Cac who gets hurt from punches to the arm
Why does Plant look like he spent more time at the barbershop than the gym, Choc.
ChocolateGiddyUp
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Why does Plant look like he spent more time at the barbershop than the gym, Choc.
I kno right
Good thing Canelo needed that extra time to get the clen out his system
a little scrum broke out
ChocolateGiddyUp
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Plant in this nikkas head 