Alvarez handed Callum Smith his first professional defeat with a unanimous decision victory in San Antonio, Texas, for the WBA, WBC and The Ring super-middleweight titles. Boxing’s pound-for-pound king secured a destructive finish to become the undisputed super-middleweight world champion, though it took time for him to break his previously unbeaten opponent down. In this fight, he took home a cheque of $750,000 alongside his IBF strap. I’m sure he’d be in the running for that fight, but he lost his world title to cocaine. Time is running out for Beterbiev to secure a legacy-defining fight, and against Browne, he could have a tougher time than expected. 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. And now that Pacquiao is likely to retire after the loss to Ugas, it's a wrap on the debate: Mayweather had the better career. Meanwhile, Canelo Alvarez, undoubtedly among the best boxers in the world, has not lost since his defeat to the all-time great Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2013. Since then, the Mexican has had a concrete path to the top after facing some of the most elite names in the sport of boxing including Erislandy Lara, Miguel Cotto, Amir Khan, Gennady Golovkin, Daniel Jacobs, Sergey Kovalev and most recently Billy Joe Saunders.
The 31-year-old Alvarez (57-1-2, 39 KOs) hasn’t lost since undefeated Floyd Mayweather beat him by majority decision in their 12-round junior middleweight title fight in September 2013 at MGM Grand Garden Arena. As far as Canelo (56-1-2, 38 KOs) goes, Plant says he doesn’t have a big experience advantage over him as many boxing fans think. Like Saunders, Plant is no slouch and the American will be looking to take the WBC, WBA and WBO titles from Canelo’s hands. Given the lack of popularity for Callum Smith and Saunders, they did well for themselves to make the kind of money they received for their respective fights against Canelo. In Saunders and Callum Smith’s case, it wouldn’t have mattered if they were given 12-week camps. “I think they should have gotten more,” said Plant about Billy Joe and Callum Smith for their purses for the Canelo fight. If Plant were to take that fight with Benavidez, it would set up an important semifinal type of match-up in which the winner would move on to face Canelo in the championship.
Still, he can expect pay cuts compared to what he was getting, because what he was getting was kind of absurd, another early DAZN move where they were throwing money around like a bunch of roughnecks on payday. It was the getting there that sucked. He’s getting inside with decent regularity. Bivol knows if he is going to have a chance he’s going to need to be aggressive and take some chances to increase variance. They’re still going to lose unless they have huge power like Gennady Golovkin or Artur Beterbiev. Canelo does not like Triple G, and Golovkin has “turned heel” recently. Billy Joe Saunders: Saunders (30-0, 14 KO) has the WBO belt at 168, so he could fight GGG at that weight, or there’s still the belief that he can make 160 again if a fight is worth it, and Golovkin would be worth it. Caleb’s net worth is $1 million. “No punches landed in the scuffle; Caleb’s glasses scratched his face which caused a slight scratch. Super middleweight world titleholder Caleb Plant put an end to gossip that he is a potential candidate to face superstar Canelo Alvarez in May. On July 20, 2019 Sweethands retained his IBF super middleweight world title with a dominant third-round TKO over previously unbeaten Mike Lee (21-1, 11 KOs) in the main event of PBC on FOX from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Alvarez boasts an impressive career record of 57-1-2 with 39 KOs. By Sean Jones: Caleb Plant lit into Canelo Alvarez and David Benavidez on Friday, making it clear that he’s not impressed with either of them. “He did get dropped by Ronald Gavril, and Jose Uzcategui couldn’t drop me,” said Plant about David Benavidez. “I dropped Jose Uzcategui twice. “I possess a lot of the same skill-set as Lara and Floyd have, except I’m a lot bigger than them. “I know how far I’m willing to go to get my hand raised in that fight. I’m a full-fledged 168-pounder. I won the Golden Gloves nationals at 178 pounds. “When he was in his first 30 fights, I was fighting better competition in the amateurs on Team USA, winning the Golden Gloves Nationals and being in the Olympic trials, and becoming an Olympic alternate. I don’t think there is any better manager than Al Haymon,” said Plant. We want to fight Charlo, and there is also Golovkin,” Reynoso said via Boxing Scene. Canelo Alvarez anticipates some difficulties during the early stages of his upcoming fight against Caleb Plant. You’re not putting yourself into the best position to get the job done,” Plant said.