After the fight, Canelo Alvarez and Caleb Plant embraced and spent about a minute talking. Plant then left the ring and Canelo did a postfight interview with Showtime’s Jim Gray, choosing to speak in his native Spanish.
“Caleb is a good fighter,” Alvarez was quoted as saying. “I have a lot of respect for Caleb Plant. He was a difficult opponent with a lot of ability and I do respect him. We are both men at the end of the day. He wanted to fight me and still continue. I told him there’s no shame. We had a great fight tonight…He was making the fight pretty difficult, but Eddy told me to just stick to the gameplan in the last two rounds. In the end, I got him. That’s the way it had to finish. He was already hurt and I went for the kill.”
Canelo, however, wasn’t happy with the translation of Showtime’s Felix DeJesus. Canelo turned to DeJesus and spoke English.
Canelo: No. And then?
DeJesus: And then?
Canelo: And then!
DeJesus: He [Plant] did say sorry about, you know, the ‘motherf**ker’ incident that happened. That he didn’t mean it that way.
Gray: I heard him. He said to you he has no mother himself. He lost his mother at a young age.
Canelo: And I said, ‘We are men. Everything’s OK and keep going.’
In addition to becoming the first undisputed 168-pound champion in history, Canelo became just the sixth male undisputed champion in the four-belt era and the first undisputed Mexican fighter in history.
“This means so much for the history of Mexico to become an undisputed champion,” said Canelo. “There are only six undisputed champions in history. It keeps me happy and very motivated to be one of the six.”
Canelo made plant juice.
I don’t think the steroids he was ingesting were made out of plants.
Mike. Nope. Not from plant juice, they were made from ass woopin. Jus like what plant got.
You can think whatever you want!
You got evidence…turn it in
Otherwise …#$_&
Mike, wipe your tears and face reality. Plant got beaten up.
Pinga: exactly bud…well said
So glad Canelo called out Dejesus, showtime interpreter. Sick and tired of the fighter speaking for a 3 minutes and Dejesus giving us 5 words. He is lazy and does not do the job he is hired for. This time he really sucked. Those were very important words. Good for Canelo!
Chalf, so true. His translation is bad just as the HBO guy back in the day.
A lot of fighters use steroids. Canelo is using more than just that. He’s clearly on HGH a clear sign of this is how his skull has grown bigger over the years, look back in photos to when be fought Mayweather to now, his skull is huge, same thing happened to Barry bonds, look it up. Human growth hormone makes the bones in your body grow bigger and stronger, which from a boxers advantage would give you a stronger jaw, even ribcage.
Also consider the skull size increase of everyone’s hero Manny Pacquiao. Remember what happened when Juan Manuel Marquez showed up looking like a he-man doll?
Spot on, same thing with Pacman his noggin got huge during his surge thru multiple weight classes. However, I do believe Plant never had the resume to beat Canelo, he was just another paper champ like the other two Smith, Saunders. Canelo simply lucked out on a weak division to unify.
Alleycat: weak comment as Plant is a damn good boxer and he showed it. Fast, sharp and excellent footwork. Its jus like scoobs called it, he didnt have the horsepower to sustain. Once Plants punches started losing all the pop they had early rounds , Canelo moved in for the kill. DONT discredit Plant. I cant speak for everyone BUT i was impressed with Plants game plan and performance!
Amazing education from tv watching. Go read a book. Look it up.
When fighter shows respect after a fight to other fighter..HOW CAN YOU EVEN THINK THAT YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO DECIDE THAT YOU CAN LEAVE THAT PART OUT OF YOUR TRANSLATION ? lol
Back to baseball senor Felix
That translator always does a horrible job, I’m surprised he’s been there so many years. Pisses me off he always says what he wants .
Canelo vs. D. Benavidez at 168…yup!!!
Yep Canelo is going to whoop that ass too.
Wow, the left is the only entity these days where you can have video proof of an occurrence, and they will still adamantly tell you the opposite happened. We really have become an immoral and corrupt society. We are repeating the early events in history right before the Soviet Union took form.
Up is down and down is up, while night is day and day is night. Except for the few of us who have retained our sanity, this is not the case and it is maddening.
What the F### are you talking about???
Please leave your political fantasies at the door.
I’m talking about the fact that Canelo’s excuse for assaulting Plant was that the American called him a motherf**ker, despite the All access episode showing that Canelo called Plant a MF and most of the boxing community accepted it as fact. You would already know that if you didn’t just start watching boxing 24 hours ago, and had an IQ that actually registered.
I agree with your overall assessment of what’s been taking place (right before our blinded eyes). The moral paradigms have shifted enormously in the past twenty years — as it’s (the Left) been working so tirelessly to accomplish for decades.
But, now having said that, how are you applying THAT dynamic to the fight that took place last night? And unto what particular “video proof” are you referring that’s being denied?
I especially appreciate your recognition of this insanity that continues to pervasively unfold. For, while there are various types of insanity that plagues the human race, the one to which you refer is, by far, the worst.
Incidentally, while Caleb Plant is a very good fighter, Canelo Alvarez is a GREAT one — in my opinion.
Thanks Randy, but I posted right above you where I explained the comparison with what’s happening in today’s society with what happened that led to the altercation between Canelo and Plant. It’s the fact that there is a narrative that is trying to erase the facts that was proven on an actual show that anyone can watch. Perhaps you should watch and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Just go to YouTube and put in all access Canelo vs. Plant episodes one and two and one of them will show everything that happened between that altercation. 90% of the commenters on this site still say that plant called Canelo the MF word. Despite video and audio evidence of the contrary, these sheeple won’t budge from their narrative, and I think that draws the perfect parallel to what I was talking about in my original comment that you responded to.
Okay, Chris, I now understand where you were coming from in your first comment. I didn’t get it at all — at first. And, yes indeed, the sporting world is saturated with the Left’s putrid seasoning. While it shrewdly hyper-emphasizes the things that fit it’s narrative, it dilutes, minimizes, and even omits altogether the things that conflict with it. This double-standardized selectiveness was exhibited with crystal clarity in what happened with the American Bernard Hopkins’ racist insults to the Welshman Joe Calzaghe, and in then in the racially inflammatory comments made by Devon Haney (another American) about Vasily Lomachenko. That nearly everything of any value and decency is severely skewed nowadays is indisputable. But this type of putrefaction is a sweet aroma to the Left.
Simply put, no one from 154-175 has a remote chance at beating Canelo, much less give him a decent challenge.
I think charlo will
Based off what? Charlo hasn’t fought anyone of note since moving up to 160. I don’t think he’ll be prepared for the moment. Also, he hasn’t looked like a powerhouse either at 160. I see him folding under Canelo’s pressure by the middle rounds. Charlo/Jacobs is probably a 50/50 fight at 168 so Im not sure if Charlo would want that fight except for a payday.
Bivol knocks him out with a full camp.
Bivol has five straight decisions. He hasn’t kayoed anyone since 2018. If he can’t kayo Craig Richards, it’s doubtful he kayos el cinnamon.
Artur Beterbiev has more than a chance of beating Canelo at 175. Thats why you will never see that fight. I am a Canelo fan. Beterbiev is too strong.
Totally agree!
And not only with Beterbiev but also with Bivol.
Undisputed, nuff said, let the excuses flow along with the weeping.
It’s time for Canelo to bring in his own translator! DeJesus must be replaced! That guy has frustrated me for years!
Honestly, his English is good enough to go without.
Guadalaharry: that is the damn truth!! He pisses me off like no other. Being bilingual and knowing bothbof the languages, im like WTF is felix saying. Thats not what the fighter said.
Was not Joe Calzaghe undisputed champion after beating Kessler in 2007
Canelo will have trouble against African-American boxer punchers like Charlo and Andrade, hence the reason that they will not get the fight. If Jaron Ennis or Terrance Crawford were 160-168, Canelo would avoid them like the plague. Unfortunately, outside of David Benavidez who would just come forward as many Mexican fighters do and not be slick, the Supermiddleweight division is not known as a strong division.
He handled Daniel Jacobs fairly well, didn’t he ??
Looked like Jacobs took a bag to me, it happens, trust me.
These guys talk shit then don’t show up in the ring. It’s getting old. Canelo is picking and choosing these guys he knows he can walk right through.
I think he picked the guys with the titles.
Did Clenelo just go full “Dude where’s my car”?