Caleb Plant vs. Caleb Truax - January 30, 2021

[Ruthless-RKO]

Confirmed for FOX.

Should be a good scrap.

[margaret thatcher]

lol i don't think it's a good one at all, plant will widely outbox him in an uneventful fight

[gregregegg]

This is terrible. Truax in a world title fight? really?.. i was hoping truax would fight Edgar Berlanga to see if he could get out of round 1... Thats a kid with under 20 career rounds, and the goal was to last 1... now he is fighting for a title... surely plant can find a better opponent than that.

[margaret thatcher]

ya i suggested truax for berlanga too, he's not interesting as a plant challenger at all

was anyone saying 'damn, i hope caleb traux gets a title shot, that would be rad'

[gregregegg]

Plant has gone from fighting Canelo the P4P #1, to fighting Truax, P4P #518....

[Ruthless-RKO]

They can build it as “Battle of the Caleb’s”

[Ruthless-RKO]

[DrDuke]

lol i don't think it's a good one at all, plant will widely outbox him in an uneventful fight

Sounds about right.

[The Gratest]

Somebody's getting calebbered!

I'll get me coat....

[bobcatbox]

I have to think that the younger Plant will outlast and outwork Truax. I didn’t see anything super promising versus Feigenbutz though. This one will be a close fight.

[Bard of Boxrec]

No calebrities in attendance I presume

[gilgamesh]

My money's on Caleb in this one.

[Ruthless-RKO]

No calebrities in attendance I presume

My money's on Caleb in this one.

Somebody's getting calebbered!

I'll get me coat....

Keep em coming..

[Bard of Boxrec]

Who will be Calebrating at the end of this one

[margaret thatcher]

this was not the calleboration i was hoping for

[Onetimeonly]

I have to think that the younger Plant will outlast and outwork Truax. I didn’t see anything super promising versus Feigenbutz though. This one will be a close fight.

As close as a shutout can be.

[gregregegg]

Everyones saying a shutout points win, i havent realy seen much of either, but just one paper, the difference of ability. cant see it going the distance, If plant is as good as people have been saying, weather he actualy knocks him out or not, he should stop him.

[Onetimeonly]

Stoppage might be more likely, I'm just sure truax won't win a round. Even past the talent gap he's likely on the other side of the rainbow.

[Ruthless-RKO]

It’s just a textbook defence..

[JxhDel.]

Plant should beat Truax as he has done with Feigenbutz.

[bobcatbox]

I have to think that the younger Plant will outlast and outwork Truax. I didn’t see anything super promising versus Feigenbutz though. This one will be a close fight.

As close as a shutout can be.

You think it goes the distance?

[Onetimeonly]

I have to think that the younger Plant will outlast and outwork Truax. I didn’t see anything super promising versus Feigenbutz though. This one will be a close fight.

As close as a shutout can be.

You think it goes the distance?

Maybe, it definitely won't be close.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Plant: I Wasn't Overly Impressed With Canelo; Callum Smith Didn't Go Out On His Shield

Caleb Plant wasn’t as swayed by Canelo Alvarez’s triumphant performance against Callum Smith as many fans and fighters.

The unbeaten IBF super middleweight champion commended the Mexican superstar for thoroughly out-pointing a previously undefeated, legitimate super middleweight world champion. Plant was underwhelmed by Smith’s performance, though, in their 12-round, 168-pound title fight December 19 at Alamodome in San Antonio.

Alvarez (54-1-2, 36 KOs) beat the much taller, longer Smith (27-1, 19 KOs) by huge margins on all three scorecards (119-109, 119-109, 117-111), yet Plant didn’t sense Smith was completely committed to pulling off an upset against the favored four-division champion. Plant, a potential opponent for Alvarez in 2021, assessed Alvarez’s victory over Smith during an appearance Monday on “The Ak & Barak Show,” which streams daily on DAZN and SiriusXM.

“I wasn’t overly impressed,” Plant told co-hosts Barak Bess and Akin Reyes. “I didn’t really see him do something where I was like, ‘Wow! This is, you know, something I haven’t seen or new elements to his game.’ … And for the most part, too, I just felt like Callum went from rope to rope, from corner to corner. You know, you can call it commendable that he got in there and fought him. But at no point did he really fight Canelo. He got in there and the bell rang, and he stayed alive for 12 rounds. But I don’t feel like he ever really put it all out there and really went out on his shield.”

Plant dismissed the theory of Smith potentially taking a punishing punch early in their bout that made him reluctant to engage Alvarez thereafter.

“I mean, everybody gets hit with body shots,” Plant said. “At this level, everybody gets hit with a good shot at some point, you know, within 12 rounds, a shot that, you know, you may feel or a body shot. That doesn’t mean that you get to fold. That doesn’t mean that you just go from rope to rope and corner to corner and not even, you know, go out on your shield. You know, when I fought Jose Uzcategui, nobody wanted to fight him. At some point in that 12 rounds, he caught me with a nice shot.

“But you never seen me fold and go from rope to rope, and just not even try and fight back and, you know, try to win. And same thing with him. I sent him down twice. I caught him with body shots. I caught him with a whole lotta sh-t. That doesn’t mean that you just get to go from rope to rope and give up, though. And that’s kind of what I feel like [Smith] did.”

Plant revealed that his manager, Luis De Cubas Jr., didn’t consider five weeks’ notice enough time for Plant to properly prepare to face Alvarez on December 19. The Ashland City, Tennessee, native acknowledged that Smith accepting that difficult fight on such short notice might’ve impacted his performance.

The 28-year-old Plant suspects Smith wouldn’t have beaten Alvarez even with a full training camp. Smith’s subpar performance in a controversial win against John Ryder a year earlier taught Plant that Smith would have difficulty dealing with an opponent who walked him down.

“At the end of the day, you know, not to put anyone down, but Callum Smith, he’s kind of an A-B-C, 1-2-3 fighter,” Plant said. “You know, he kinda stands straight up, not too many dimensions to his game. I have seen him be able to make a couple of adjustments in fights. But, you know, just stylistically, and with the experience that Canelo has and the style that Callum has, I feel like it probably wouldn’t have worked out either way. But, you know, when you give yourself four weeks to train on top of that, you know, it’s [even harder].”

Plant (20-0, 12 KOs) is scheduled to defend his title January 30, when he’ll face former IBF champ Caleb Truax (31-4-2, 19 KOs, 1 NC) in a FOX main event at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles.

[brilo33]

i rate plant he is like the usa bjs a very good boxer , good hands moves well also has a bit of spitness in him, i think he could stop truax late on, truax been in with world champs and like he did against de gale if you dont turn up on the night he will beat ya make it tough, id go plant 8th till 11th ko

[Las Vegas boxing guy]

i rate plant he is like the usa bjs a very good boxer.

I think that's an underrated comment ... Caleb Plant may be THE BEST boxer in the game (skills wise). His raw power is pretty much his only question mark. It keeps him from going toe to toe (which isn't necessarily a bad thing).