Plant points out that Canelo fought weak opposition in Mexico during the first 30 fights of his career and fought better fighters in the amateur ranks. “I fought some better competition than him when he had 20 fights, 30 fights. Power punching phenom David Lemieux (43-4, 36 KOs) also last fought in early June; however, he only went two rounds in stopping David Zegarra. Callum with little more than a punching bag for Canelo, choosing to shell up and fight with his back against the ropes for 12 rounds. Lemieux would pose a threat due to his punching power and could be a box office draw should a fight with Plant take place in Canada. Saunders reportedly made $8 million to fight Canelo on May 8th in a contest that could result in his career being cut short due to a terrible eye injury he suffered. Smith and Billy Joe made excellent money in recent fights against Canelo Alvarez, and Plant feels that he deserves more than that due to him being a bigger name in America. Plant has good movement, and Truax was able to land just 10 punches in the first three rounds. Canelo outpointed Callum Smith to win the WBC and WBA belts last December finished Avni Yildirm in just three rounds in February and knocked out Billy Joe Sauders in eight rounds to win the WBO title in May.
As such, Benavidez will focus on his May 21st WBC 168-lb title eliminator against David Lemieux and then go from there. Now there will be new plans, including a possible rematch that Alvarez was talking about even before he left the ring. I’ve heard stories that when you get married, everything changes, but if you look at the success that we’ve had then there really ain’t no sense in switching it up. “Our team is going to sit down and do whatever it takes to get this thing ironed out,” said Caleb Plant to Secondsout about a fight between him and Canelo. Billy Joe Saunders fight card takes place on Saturday May 8th. It begins at 1 a.m. Also on the card junior welterweight contender Montana Love takes on Gabriel Gollaz Valenzuela in the 12-round co-main event. The hardball negotiations led to the event being set for November rather than the Mexican Independence Day weekend in September when Alvarez wanted to fight, but at least he had the matchup he wanted. By Dan Ambrose: Caleb Plant says $10 million “sounds about right” as a ballpark figure for him to receive for the proposed undisputed 168-lb championship fight against superstar Canelo Alvarez in September.
For a fight of this magnitude, I feel that an eight-week camp is only fair,” said Plant. They still would have been hopelessly overmatched against Canelo, which is why it’s silly for Plant to be making a big production about Callum’s five-week camp for the Canelo fight. For him to give him a five-week camp, maybe he did try and talk him out of it,” Plant said. Baby: Give me Davis. I’m not so sure that there’s anybody at 175 that will give Canelo a real challenge. I’m coming, my friend! Plant, who was looking to participate in the most important fight of his career and stood to make a career-high payday of upwards of $10 million, decided to give his side of the story on social media as it seemed that most of the boxing world had deemed him guilty in being the reason the fight would not be taking place. Give Berlanga and Gongora $10 million combined, or pay Benavndiez or Bivol $10 million. Canelo will need to decide soon whether he wants to pay Plant the $10 million that he’s been talking about wanting for the fight. It would be a good idea for Canelo to start looking at a Plan-B option if Plant digs his heels into the sand and refuse to budge from his $10 million asking price.