It is still unclear what caused the fire. Plant stormed back and began throwing blows in Alvarez's direction with Alvarez returning fire. Security managed to separate the two sides as their camps also began exchanging words. After the two sides engaged in a prolonged staredown at the press conference, Alvarez delivered a shove to Plant's chest. Alvarez sparked a commotion by pushing his opponent first. After Canelo and Caleb Plant came to blows at their first face off, Sportsmail pick out some of the craziest and most infamous incidents to have happened at boxing press conferences and face offs. Canelo, widely regarded as the boxing pound-for-pound king has conquered four weight divisions and already holds three belts at super-middleweight as he goes after the IBF title held by American Plant. “We’re going to go to him and say, ‘Here are our three or four options.’ PBC is going to say, ‘Here are our three or four options,’ and somebody else is probably going to put three or four options out there,” said Hearn about Canelo’s next fight. After being promoted to Regular champion in 2017, he has defended the belt five times, three of them as Super champion.
Ten weeks later came his third fight in less than five months, handing England’s Billy Joe Saunders (30-0 at the time) his first defeat along with a broken orbital bone and cheekbone in forcing a stoppage after eight rounds. It was one of the few right hands Plant had thrown within a few rounds. Caleb Plant is the heavy underdog going into the biggest fight of his career. Caleb Plant suffered the first defeat of his career against now-undisputed super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez in Las Vegas and has been taken to hospital since. As long as he maintains his performance, he is going to counter at the right moments with a huge impact on the plant. Canelo Alvarez shared a touching conversation with Caleb Plant just moments after knocking him out in their fight last week. The Mexican has only just become the undisputed super-middleweight king after knocking out Caleb Plant last week - the fourth division he has become a world champion in. Canelo emerged victorious against the American after securing a stoppage in the 11th round of their undisputed clash in Las Vegas, becoming the king of the welterweight division with four title belts. And in doing so, the pound-for-pound king will earn at least £30m, with Plant taking £7.4m.
Caleb Plant has suffered a serious cut as a result of his brawl with Canelo Alvarez at the start of their press conference… JEFF POWELL IN MEXICO CITY: Canelo Alvarez is boxing's biggest star and can write another chapter in his legacy by defeating Billy Joe Saunders in their super fight on Saturday. JEFF POWELL AT THE AT&T STADIUM: This was not just the infliction of a first defeat. Next, on May 8, came the slick, experienced Saunders, who owned the WBO super middleweight title and had never tasted defeat. First up for Alvarez will be a return to the light heavyweight division to face WBA champion Dmitry Bivol on May 7, Matchroom Boxing's Eddie Hearn and Alvarez announced on Friday. Boxing's pound-for-pound No 1 Canelo Alvarez returns to the ring in the early hours of Sunday morning as he jumps up in weight once more to take on WBA (super) light-heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol in Las Vegas. Alvarez added Plant's IBF title to his own WBC, WBA and WBO belts with a steady tactical performance culminating in a display of his vaunted power to finish the previously unbeaten Plant. The loss of a world title. Anthony Joshua will put his WBA, WBO and IBF world straps on the line when he takes on the undefeated Oleksandr Usyk at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday night.
The world title bout against undefeated British fighter Saunders is set for May 8 and will see the WBA, WBC and WBO belts on the line. Alvarez’s last fight was an eighth-round win over Billy Joe Saunders via corner retirement in May. The decorated Mexican fights for the first time since stopping American Caleb Plant to become the undisputed super-middleweight champion in December last year. Canelo ended his short-lived rivalry with Plant after defeating the American to become undisputed super middleweight champion. Canelo Alvarez is expected to be coronated as the first undisputed super middleweight champion on Saturday. Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez and Caleb Plant meet at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in the early hours of Sunday morning with the former's WBA, WBC and WBO belts and the latter's IBF title on the line. The undefeated Brit has called on Demetrius Andrade to vacate his middleweight world title and step up to 168lbs to face him next month with the winner going on to face Canelo in early spring. JEFF POWELL: As the Mexican icon wriggles free of that huge contract and thus enables himself to return to the ring next month against Caleb Plant, so DAZN lose the jewel in their crown.