“We want to unify all of the titles and fight the best 168-pounders out there. In this humans-only seminar, owners will learn about the many fun AKC Titles and skills that they can teach their dog for the pets to earn their titles. What can Ward do about Plant’s poor stamina? This will be the first pay-per-view bout of Plant’s career. The Canelo vs. Kovalev fight is not available via traditional pay-per-view methods. Canelo made this point emphatic: If Golovkin wants to fight a third time, he would have to come up to face him at 168. Golovkin is a very large middleweight, and it would not be a stretch physically. That’s why it would have been better if Plant didn’t say anything at all about that. Saunders moving and boxing well but didn’t land enough. Alvarez and Saunders are set to meet on May 8 -- Cinco de Mayo weekend -- at a location to be determined, Matchroom Boxing announced after Alvarez's win. Canelo (52-1-2, 35 KOs) is coming off a unanimous decision victory over Daniel Jacobs in May. The boxing world is now coming to Team Canelo. He's made two defenses of the belt since reclaiming it in 2019 with his most recent bout coming in December 2020 where he scored a decision win over Martin Murray.
They got all the way to the contract stage, but talks imploded at the last minute over what Plant claimed were unreasonable demands on Canelo’s part. “He would be a very strong threat to Canelo’s legacy. So, Alvarez has plenty of options for his plans to fight in February, to fulfill a WBC mandatory obligation against Avni Yildirim (21-2, 12 KOs), then go back to his traditional schedule of fighting Cinco de Mayo weekend in early May and in September during Mexican Independence Day weekend. But now that both Alvarez and Saunders are represented by the same promoter -- Eddie Hearn -- for at least one more fight, the date is set as Alvarez continues his plans of fighting four times in 2021 and five times in 14 months. Alvarez added the WBO title with an eighth-round TKO victory over Billy Joe Saunders in May. “The plan is to fight our mandatory in February and then fight again in May and in September. The two were originally scheduled to meet last May, but the coronavirus pandemic coupled with Saunders' license being suspended by the British Boxing Board for an insensitive social media post pushed the fight off and it was never rescheduled.
Billy Joe Saunders (30-0, 14 KOS) holds the WBO 168-pound belt and Caleb Plant (20-0, 12 KOs) is the IBF super middleweight titlist. Unified WBA/WBC/WBO Super Middleweight World Champion Alvarez will be fighting the undefeated IBF Super Middleweight World Champion, live on Showtime PPV. 25 heavyweight title defense by three-belt champion Anthony Joshua versus unbeaten former undisputed cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. On the same night as Chisora-Parker, there's another heavyweight nontitle bout you've got to check out involving a former champion. The former champion respects Plant for his dedication to the sport. While Lomachenko wants to fight undisputed lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez next, any delay of Lopez’s return from his COVID-19 positive - into, say, October - could move Lomachenko to take a stay-busy type of bout by year’s end. “We talked going into this fight how good Dmitry Bivol is, how tough this fight was and it was a punch-perfect performance,” said Eddie Hearn, who promotes Alvarez.
Round 12: Bivol closes the show with another clear round to cement what should be a clear victory in a major upset. Canelo became the undisputed super middleweight champion on Saturday after beating Plant by knock-out in the 11th round. Romero (14-1, 9 KOs) sat on the canvas and watched as the referee reached the count of 10 with one second remaining in the round. She is one of the best fighters in the world. Throughout most of Dirrell’s career, the 37-year-old has swapped fists with some of the best fighters that the division has to offer. “We have put a lot of thought into this long-awaited night, and we’re eager to deliver one of the best undercards of the year,” said Oscar De La Hoya, chairman and CEO of Golden Boy Promotions. That's been his best punch of the fight so far - but he needs to up the tempo as we approach the mid-rounds. WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman says Canelo Alvarez could take on Artur Beterbiev in his next fight after he defeated Caleb Plant. Beterbiev and Smith are both power punchers. I also felt his power.