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Canelo Alvarez vs. Caleb Plant: date, time, how to watch, background

Canelo Alvarez vs. Caleb Plant: date, time, how to watch, background.

CANELO ALVAREZ AND CALEB PLANT WILL FIGHT FOR THE UNDISPUTED 168-POUND CHAMPIONSHIP ON PAY-PER-VIEW SATURDAY NIGHT IN LAS VEGAS.

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CANELO ALVAREZ (56-1-2, 38 KOs) VS. CALEB PLANT (21-0, 12 KOs)

  • Date: Saturday, Nov. 6
  • Time: 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT (main event later in show)
  • Where: MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas
  • TV/Stream: Showtime Pay-per-view
  • Cost: $79.99
  • Division: Super middleweight
  • At stake: Alvarez’s WBA, WBC, WBO and Plant’s IBF titles
  • Pound-for-pound ranking: Alvarez No. 2
  • Odds: Alvarez 8-1 (average of multiple outlets)
  • Also on the card: Anthony Dirrell vs. Marcos Hernandez, super middleweights; Rey Vargas vs. Leonardo Baez, junior featherweights; Elvis Rodriguez vs. Juan Pablo Romero, junior welterweights
  • Prediction: Alvarez KO 10
  • Background: Canelo Alvarez has accomplished as much as any active fighter but has never become one thing: an undisputed champion. He will check that off his list if he beats Plant, who holds the only major 168-pound belt that isn’t in Alvarez’s collection. The 31-year-old Mexican, a four-division titleholder and pound-for-pound star, outpointed Callum Smith to win the WBC and WBA belts last December, stopped Avni Yildirm in three rounds in February and added the WBO title by knocking out Billy Joe Saunders in eight in May. He’s 14-0-1 (8 KOs) since he was outpointed by Floyd Mayweather in 2013, his only loss. He’s 16-1-1 (9 KOs) in major title fights. The 6-foot-1 Plant started his career in 2014 as a middleweight but quickly moved up to super middleweight, which makes him a natural 168-pounder. He has excellent skills, honed during a successful amateur career, as well as unusual speed and athleticism. He won his belt by easily outpointing the favored Jose Uzcategui in January 2019 and successfully defended against Mike Lee (TKO 3) six months later, Vincent Feigenbutz (TKO 11) in February of last year and Caleb Truax (UD) this past January. He has fought only twice in the past two-plus years while Alvarez has fought twice this year. Alvarez is a significant step up in opposition for the Las Vegas-based Tennessean, who, of course, has his own chance to make history.

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Canelo Alvarez vs. Caleb Plant: date, time, how to watch, background

Canelo Alvarez vs. Caleb Plant: date, time, how to watch, background.

CANELO ALVAREZ AND CALEB PLANT WILL FIGHT FOR THE UNDISPUTED 168-POUND CHAMPIONSHIP ON PAY-PER-VIEW SATURDAY NIGHT IN LAS VEGAS.

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CANELO ALVAREZ (56-1-2, 38 KOs) VS. CALEB PLANT (21-0, 12 KOs)

  • Date: Saturday, Nov. 6
  • Time: 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT (main event later in show)
  • Where: MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas
  • TV/Stream: Showtime Pay-per-view
  • Cost: $79.99
  • Division: Super middleweight
  • At stake: Alvarez’s WBA, WBC, WBO and Plant’s IBF titles
  • Pound-for-pound ranking: Alvarez No. 2
  • Odds: Alvarez 8-1 (average of multiple outlets)
  • Also on the card: Anthony Dirrell vs. Marcos Hernandez, super middleweights; Rey Vargas vs. Leonardo Baez, junior featherweights; Elvis Rodriguez vs. Juan Pablo Romero, junior welterweights
  • Prediction: Alvarez KO 10
  • Background: Canelo Alvarez has accomplished as much as any active fighter but has never become one thing: an undisputed champion. He will check that off his list if he beats Plant, who holds the only major 168-pound belt that isn’t in Alvarez’s collection. The 31-year-old Mexican, a four-division titleholder and pound-for-pound star, outpointed Callum Smith to win the WBC and WBA belts last December, stopped Avni Yildirm in three rounds in February and added the WBO title by knocking out Billy Joe Saunders in eight in May. He’s 14-0-1 (8 KOs) since he was outpointed by Floyd Mayweather in 2013, his only loss. He’s 16-1-1 (9 KOs) in major title fights. The 6-foot-1 Plant started his career in 2014 as a middleweight but quickly moved up to super middleweight, which makes him a natural 168-pounder. He has excellent skills, honed during a successful amateur career, as well as unusual speed and athleticism. He won his belt by easily outpointing the favored Jose Uzcategui in January 2019 and successfully defended against Mike Lee (TKO 3) six months later, Vincent Feigenbutz (TKO 11) in February of last year and Caleb Truax (UD) this past January. He has fought only twice in the past two-plus years while Alvarez has fought twice this year. Alvarez is a significant step up in opposition for the Las Vegas-based Tennessean, who, of course, has his own chance to make history.

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Fight Week: Canelo Alvarez vs. Caleb Plant: Who will be undisputed?

Fight Week: Canelo Alvarez vs. Caleb Plant: Who will be undisputed?

FIGHT WEEK

CANELO ALVAREZ AND CALEB PLANT WILL FIGHT FOR THE UNDISPUTED 168-POUND CHAMPIONSHIP ON PAY-PER-VIEW SATURDAY NIGHT IN LAS VEGAS.

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MIKAELA MAYER (15-0, 5 KOs) VS. MAIVA HAMADOUCHE (22-1, 18 KOs)

  • When: Friday, Nov. 5
  • Where: Virgin Hotels, Las Vegas
  • TV/Stream: ESPN+
  • Division: Junior lightweight
  • At stake: Mayer’s WBO and Hamadouche’s IBF titles
  • Pound-for-pound ranking: None
  • Odds: NA
  • Also on the card: Janibek Alimkhanuly vs. Hassan N’Dam, middleweights
  • Prediction: Mayer UD
  • Background: Mayer could face her stiffest test yet in the ESPN+ main event on Saturday. The 2016 U.S. Olympian has faced increasingly tough opposition, including Ewa Brodnicks to win the WBO title (UD) in October of last year and Erica Anabella Farias in her first and only defense (UD) this past June. The 31-year-old Los Angeles-area product, a polished technician and good athlete, has been able to outbox even her most-accomplished opponents. Hamadouche, also 31, won the vacant IBF title by outpointing Jennifer Salinas in 2016 and has successfully defended six times, including an eighth-round stoppage of Nina Pavlovic last December. That was the Frenchwoman’s most recent fight, meaning she will have been out of the ring for 10-plus months. Hamadouche is an aggressive fighter, which should make for an interesting style matchup against the slick Mayer. She also has an unusually high knockout rate, which is a product of her style but also might be attributable in part to her opposition. Hamadouche competed in the Tokyo Olympics this past summer. She was eliminated in the first round.

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CANELO ALVAREZ (56-1-2, 38 KOs) VS. CALEB PLANT (21-0, 12 KOs)

  • When: Saturday, Nov. 6
  • Where: MGM Grand, Las Vegas
  • TV/Stream: Pay-per-view
  • Division: Super middleweight
  • At stake: Alvarez’s WBA, WBC, WBO and Plant’s IBF titles
  • Pound-for-pound ranking: Alvarez No. 2
  • Odds: Alvarez 8-1 (average of multiple outlets)
  • Also on the card: Anthony Dirrell vs. Marcos Hernandez, super middleweights; Rey Vargas vs. Leonardo Baez, junior featherweights; Elvis Rodriguez vs. Juan Pablo Romero, junior welterweights
  • Prediction: Alvarez KO 10
  • Background: Canelo Alvarez has accomplished as much as any active fighter but has never become one thing: an undisputed champion. He will check that off his list if he beats Plant, who holds the only major 168-pound belt that isn’t in Alvarez’s collection. The 31-year-old Mexican, a four-division titleholder and pound-for-pound star, outpointed Callum Smith to win the WBC and WBA belts last December, stopped Avni Yildirm in three rounds in February and added the WBO title by knocking out Billy Joe Saunders in eight in May. He’s 14-0-1 (8 KOs) since he was outpointed by Floyd Mayweather in 2013, his only loss. He’s 16-1-1 (9 KOs) in major title fights. The 6-foot-1 Plant started his career in 2014 as a middleweight but quickly moved up to super middleweight, which makes him a natural 168-pounder. He has excellent skills, honed during a successful amateur career, as well as unusual speed and athleticism. He won his belt by easily outpointing the favored Jose Uzcategui in January 2019 and successfully defended against Mike Lee six months later, Vincent Feigenbutz in February of last year and Caleb Truax this past January. He has fought only twice in the past two-plus years while Alvarez has fought twice this year. Alvarez is a significant step up in opposition for the Las Vegas-based Tennessean, who, of course, has his own chance to make history.

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Also fighting this weekend: Matteo Signani (30-5-3, 11 KOs) of Italy faces Ruben Diaz (26-2-2, 17 KOs) of Spain in a scheduled 12-round middleweight bout in Rome (DAZN).

Fight Week: Canelo Alvarez vs. Caleb Plant: Who will be undisputed?

Fight Week: Canelo Alvarez vs. Caleb Plant: Who will be undisputed?

FIGHT WEEK

CANELO ALVAREZ AND CALEB PLANT WILL FIGHT FOR THE UNDISPUTED 168-POUND CHAMPIONSHIP ON PAY-PER-VIEW SATURDAY NIGHT IN LAS VEGAS.

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MIKAELA MAYER (15-0, 5 KOs) VS. MAIVA HAMADOUCHE (22-1, 18 KOs)

  • When: Friday, Nov. 5
  • Where: Virgin Hotels, Las Vegas
  • TV/Stream: ESPN+
  • Division: Junior lightweight
  • At stake: Mayer’s WBO and Hamadouche’s IBF titles
  • Pound-for-pound ranking: None
  • Odds: NA
  • Also on the card: Janibek Alimkhanuly vs. Hassan N’Dam, middleweights
  • Prediction: Mayer UD
  • Background: Mayer could face her stiffest test yet in the ESPN+ main event on Saturday. The 2016 U.S. Olympian has faced increasingly tough opposition, including Ewa Brodnicks to win the WBO title (UD) in October of last year and Erica Anabella Farias in her first and only defense (UD) this past June. The 31-year-old Los Angeles-area product, a polished technician and good athlete, has been able to outbox even her most-accomplished opponents. Hamadouche, also 31, won the vacant IBF title by outpointing Jennifer Salinas in 2016 and has successfully defended six times, including an eighth-round stoppage of Nina Pavlovic last December. That was the Frenchwoman’s most recent fight, meaning she will have been out of the ring for 10-plus months. Hamadouche is an aggressive fighter, which should make for an interesting style matchup against the slick Mayer. She also has an unusually high knockout rate, which is a product of her style but also might be attributable in part to her opposition. Hamadouche competed in the Tokyo Olympics this past summer. She was eliminated in the first round.

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CANELO ALVAREZ (56-1-2, 38 KOs) VS. CALEB PLANT (21-0, 12 KOs)

  • When: Saturday, Nov. 6
  • Where: MGM Grand, Las Vegas
  • TV/Stream: Pay-per-view
  • Division: Super middleweight
  • At stake: Alvarez’s WBA, WBC, WBO and Plant’s IBF titles
  • Pound-for-pound ranking: Alvarez No. 2
  • Odds: Alvarez 8-1 (average of multiple outlets)
  • Also on the card: Anthony Dirrell vs. Marcos Hernandez, super middleweights; Rey Vargas vs. Leonardo Baez, junior featherweights; Elvis Rodriguez vs. Juan Pablo Romero, junior welterweights
  • Prediction: Alvarez KO 10
  • Background: Canelo Alvarez has accomplished as much as any active fighter but has never become one thing: an undisputed champion. He will check that off his list if he beats Plant, who holds the only major 168-pound belt that isn’t in Alvarez’s collection. The 31-year-old Mexican, a four-division titleholder and pound-for-pound star, outpointed Callum Smith to win the WBC and WBA belts last December, stopped Avni Yildirm in three rounds in February and added the WBO title by knocking out Billy Joe Saunders in eight in May. He’s 14-0-1 (8 KOs) since he was outpointed by Floyd Mayweather in 2013, his only loss. He’s 16-1-1 (9 KOs) in major title fights. The 6-foot-1 Plant started his career in 2014 as a middleweight but quickly moved up to super middleweight, which makes him a natural 168-pounder. He has excellent skills, honed during a successful amateur career, as well as unusual speed and athleticism. He won his belt by easily outpointing the favored Jose Uzcategui in January 2019 and successfully defended against Mike Lee six months later, Vincent Feigenbutz in February of last year and Caleb Truax this past January. He has fought only twice in the past two-plus years while Alvarez has fought twice this year. Alvarez is a significant step up in opposition for the Las Vegas-based Tennessean, who, of course, has his own chance to make history.

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Also fighting this weekend: Matteo Signani (30-5-3, 11 KOs) of Italy faces Ruben Diaz (26-2-2, 17 KOs) of Spain in a scheduled 12-round middleweight bout in Rome (DAZN).

Caleb Plant on prospective fight with Canelo Alvarez: ‘I can win’

Caleb Plant is confident that he has what it takes to beat Canelo Alvarez.

Canelo Alvarez dispatched Billy Joe Saunders after eight rounds on Saturday in Texas. Now it’s on to Caleb Plant for all the super middleweight marbles in September if things shake out as expected.

Should we expect a similar result in the latter fight? Plant certainly doesn’t think so.

The Las Vegas-based Tennessean, who holds the IBF 168-pound title, acknowledges that he and Saunders are both slick, well-schooled technicians. However, he said that’s where the similarities end.

“Well, for one, I feel like I take the sport a lot more serious [than Saunders does],” Plant told me and Kenneth Bouhairie on The PBC Podcast. “Saunders said himself that he doesn’t train when he doesn’t have fights coming up. And maybe he doesn’t live the best lifestyle.

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“Everyone who knows me knows how serious I take my training, they know how disciplined I am, they know how much I respect this sport and how much work I put into this sport. I feel that’s a big difference.”

And?

“And I feel I’m a lot faster than Billy Joe,” he said, “my defense is better, I punch harder than Billy Joe, I’m taller than Billy Joe. I feel that sometimes people misconstrue that sometimes because we both have a slick style that we fight the same.

“But that doesn’t necessarily mean that we fight the same. He doesn’t have a good jab. There are a whole lot of things I feel I do better.”

Plant, who watched the Alvarez-Saunders fight with family in Nashville, thought the British fighter performed well until a right uppercut broke his face in multiple places in Round 8.

And, yes, he believes he did “see things I feel I can take advantage of” even though he was impressed that Alvarez got the job done once again.

“It seemed like Billy Joe started to settle in around the fifth round and kind of started dictating the pace and having some success. But in the end he got caught with a big shot and that was all she wrote,” Plant said.

Alvarez (56-1-2, 38 KOs) has said that his immediate goal is to become the first undisputed 168-pound champion. Plant (21-0, 12 KOs) has the same dream.

Plant won his title by defeating Jose Uzcategui by a wide decision — putting him down twice in the process — in only his 18th pro fight. He has successfully defended three times.

Now, if he and Alvarez can come to terms on the ultimate 168-pound title-unification showdown, the 28-year-old will have the opportunity take an enormous step in his career.

He was asked on the podcast which motivates him more: the chance to become an undisputed world champion or the opportunity to take down arguably the No. 1 fighter in the world.

“I feel like with this fight right there I can knock out two birds with one stone, [defeat] a modern-day legend and become undisputed,” he responded. “Everything I’ve ever wanted out of boxing I can attain in one night.

“Like I said, that’s what I’m focused on. That’s where my eyes are set.”

Alvarez would be a significant favorite to beat Plant, which is no surprise given their respective places in boxing hierarchy.

Plant couldn’t care less about the opinions of oddsmakers or pundits. If he had listened to naysayers along the way, he said, he wouldn’t have a piece of the super middleweight championship and be in position to face the biggest star in the sport.

“I know in my heart that I can win,” he said. “And no matter who tells me differently they’re not going to be able to persuade me. I’ve been told my whole life what I can and can’t be and what I can and can’t achieve. And so far they’ve all been wrong. … If they were able to conquer and accomplish all the tings I have, they’d feel they were unstoppable too.

“When we get that fight, I will get my hand raised and it will be a great night and great victory. It will set my name in stone in history books forever.”

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