Canelo Alvarez vs. Caleb Plant full fight preview and prediction ahead of the undisputed Super Middleweight title fight tonight (Sat., Nov. 6, 2021) inside Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena, streaming live on Showtime PPV.
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This Saturday night on FOX (8 pm ET), IBF super middleweight titlist Caleb Plant will defend his belt against former titleholder Caleb Truax in a 12-round main event.
This is a bigger fight than just the components of the matchup. We’ve got a clear favorite here for sure, and it’s another kinda lousy FOX main event, in all honesty, which they’ve made a regular thing at this point.
But Plant (20-0, 12 KO) is fighting to maintain his spot in line for
the fight in boxing, which is very possible for later this year. If Plant can win and retain his belt, he will stay headed toward a unification bout with Canelo Alvarez. Alvarez holds the WBC and WBA belts, and he wants all four. There’s already talk of him fighting Billy Joe Saunders, the WBO titleholder, in May.
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I still think Canelo-GGG 3 is the biggest fight available to either man. You can argue reasonably that this is the opportune time for Canelo to score a clean and clear win over GGG and settle the debate, at least in his own mind nothing will
really ever change how people saw the first two fights what with Golovkin closing in on his 39th birthday in the spring and having lost a step.
But there is the chance that GGG is just That Dude for Canelo, like Juan Manuel Marquez always was for Manny Pacquiao. And we know how that rivalry ended, at precisely the time everyone figured Marquez was finally just going to be too old and Pacquiao would finally be the clear better of the two of them. If Canelo got the fight at 168 or, say, a 165 catchweight, the whole thing could parallel even tighter.