By Karl Freitag
Photos: Sumio Yamada
Explore the facts and figures of Canelo-Plant.
- According to CompuBox, Canelo landed 117 out of 361 punches, while Plant connected on 101 of 441. Canelo had the edge in power shots 102-59.
- At the time of the stoppage, Canelo was ahead on the scorecards 98-92, 97-93, and 96-94.
- Attendance at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas was 16,586. The live gate and PPV numbers weren’t available at press time.
- Canelo is now 57-1-2, 39 KOs, Plant is 21-1, 12 KOs.
- Canelo will bank $40 million and Plant will earn $10 million.
- Canelo is now one of 6 undisputed champions in the four-belt era, joining Bernard Hopkins, Jermain Taylor, Terence Crawford, Oleksandr Usyk and Josh Taylor. Teofimo Lopez has an argument that he’s in that elite club also.
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Alvarez’s granite chin, durable body, and unrelenting offense were the keys to his win. Plant is a good boxer per se, but his offense was folding up each subsequent round as Alvarez was cracking his way thru Plant’s brick wall of a fight plan. In the 11th round, Plant seemed somewhat battered, exhausted and the final touches were the hard punches from Alvarez that sealed Plant’s fate. Plant was really dazed with the first knockdown but still had his stable mind intact. The second knockdown was an accumulative effect of power, pain, exhaustion, and dealing with one powerful unrelenting opponent. It’s going to be really difficult to beat Canelo at this weight class unless he ages or gets socially distracted disrupting his current fight progress.
He doesn’t have a granite chin. He fought white softies. He’s afraid of the true undefeated two time WBC super middleweight champ, David Benavidez. All Mexican and pundits are already making excuses for chicken canelo. They are now trying to say size but size didn’t matter whenever he fought, no chin lightweight Amir Khan. Quit protecting this overrated chicken. Fight David Benavidez. I know you all are scared out of your mind for this fight. You all never mention this guy’s name. Sleep on that, peace ; people.
MBG, thats assuming Benavidez can still make the weight??? He had it all and lost it at the scale. That was his fault otherwise he wld have had his shot too. Lets get serious for a second. Benevadiz is BARELY holding on to the weight. Why doesnt he move up to the weight class he rightfully belings to qnd im sure wld be more comfortable at? And u call Canelo a chicken? Thats laughable.
MBG sorry m8 Canelo whether you like it or not is the best going today. He fought nothing but big names after big names and each and every time everyone said he don’t have it, he can’t win, he’s too soft but happened every single time? He wins. What happened this time around? Every single Canelo hater like yourself said Plant is too good, he’s too quick fuck that dumb shit bro. Canelo was way too skilled and much stronger fighter than Plant. Plant didn’t do jack shit, didn’t have a chance. Now after your man looses all of a sudden he too is trash funny how that is. Canelo is staying at Super Middleweight his natural weight class and will eventually beat Benavidez and Charlo in the future. Benavidez didn’t want to move up to his more natural weight because he wanted to take lesser fights and keep winning. He’s scared bro. Now it will be interesting to see whether or not he bitches out and moves up now that Canelo is king to avoid him or stays and get knocked out.
168 is his weight, don’t scared from that whipping that’s coming. Oh, by the way, haven’t you heard: cinco de Mayo : Benavidez vs chicken Canelo
kibble eater or rock salamander take your pick
You have jokes. Let’s see Benavides the coke head and can’t put down the food to make weight. And has challenged two guys in lower weight classes at 160 charlo and Andrade. Why doesn’t he challenge guys at biggert weights. Yet he refuses to go up to 175 and challenge beterbiev, bivol, ramirez etc. ok. If you can sleep at night knowing Benavidez hasn’t fought anyone and just calls out smaller guys that’s great. But you supporting a huge chicken. Plus canelo didn’t duck benavidez let’s be honest. He handed his belt over after losing it for the 2nd time.
But I guess you will make believe and think he was duck.
Your canela avoided those too and fought old ass Kovalev. And kovalev was winning with the jab only lol… until they told him wtf you are winning the fight then he got caught with a regular shot and fake the ko ..Benavides been calling canelo just like anyone else why not him? Or Yildirim was better? After 2 year not fighting? By the way Yildirim got a tittle shot AGAIN ( it was in the canelos contract for sure) and guess what? He got his ass beat again by a nobody lol. But Benavides is not worth the shot against him.
I can bet anything he not fighting him… he will move up or down to face charlo easy pick ..he almost lost or lost which a nobody last fight or GGG at 40 but will be a better one than this plant one … he can’t beat Benavides. And he knows that… he never attempted to unified when Benavides was the champ… good timing lol. He will be the mandatory soon… he fought Yildirim saying the need to face mandatories too …. Let’s see in this case..
Benevadiz is a light Heavy weight, he should have moved up in weight long ago. I have your back, Tony. I think he is an over sized bully at middle weight and scared to face a true light Heavy.
Read a book.
“He fought white softies”
– Look at his boxing resume.
– Unmatched in 2day’s pound-4-pound.
– Read it slowly, so it will finally sink in.
Not sure how you became a legend on here with comments like that but canelo’s chin wasn’t tested tonight. Plant cannot punch and it showed.
I think any fight a boxer is in his/her chin is always on the line no matter who they face. That being said, Canelo’s chin is granite in his arsenal as part of his weapons in a fight.
It was what it was and was supposed to be, an easy night’s work.
I believe there is not one single Super Middleweight or down can defeat Canelo. The only way he might loose if he jumps up to Light Heavyweight full time but that isn’t his real weight to fight in even though I think he can beat half of them there. I think he should just stay put at Super middleweight and defend the titles. Nothing to prove to anyone at this point but dominate the division and stay King of the division. Benavidez, Charlo idc who it is I don’t think they can beat Canelo. Canelo is a unrelenting force. If you fight his game and stay toe to toe eventually you will get knocked out.
He is already a light heavyweight and if they hadn’t added all the super and junior divisions would be fighting and beating all of them.
Canelo vs. D. Benavidez at 168…no further comment.
HGH (human growth hormone) came to canelos rescue again. For those who don’t know HGH grows and thickens your bones which means bigger harder jaw and skull.
Yup, and he masks that with the clenbuterol. Oscar Valdez masked his dope with that other ‘weight loss’ supplement that he got busted for, but still got to fight for a world title. These fighters in the reynoso camp know they can get away with doping because their personal corrupt cartel influenced sanctioning body does nothing to punish them. Why stop taking it when there’s no incentive to? Anyway, canelo’s knockout was the only reason he won this fight, because he was not ahead on the scorecards in a legitimate boxing sport. Just because plant doesn’t have as much power as Canelo doesn’t mean he can’t win rounds. If Canelo gives the Russian Bivol a full training camp at either 168 or 175 he will not go the distance, and I will keep saying this until the fight gets made. I will also keep calling Canelo Alvarez the biggest fraud in the history of boxing, and he’s turned into an arrogant little prick too. He was the one who called plant the MF and assaulted him during that face off, as it’s all on video on the all access show. And now he’s wearing a king’s crown? He truly is the casual fans boxer now.
Chris. Why Bivol? Cuz he foughr in that weight class once? C’mon man. Get it together. U find every excuse to tey and knock a fighter down dont ya. And if u think Plant was ahead on the score cards, ur delusional buddy.
Bivol has never fought at 168. What are you on about? Canelo is the one who has looked Bivol’s way, so don’t look if you don’t really want it. Plant was about even up and maybe 1 round down.
seriously go way you know nothing
Hey Chris, make sure you drink lots of water and stay hydrated today…’cause you’re SALTY AF!! There really is no reason to get so worked up. Who cares if Canelo is considered by many to be the P4P best in the sport, if you don’t like him, just don’t watch. I was disappointed when the whole clenbuterol issue came up but after hearing people like Victor Conte defend Canelo, People who know way more than I do about this stuff, I’m inclined to believe the meat story. But I get it, haters will always hate!
I think there is some strength, ‘components’ (shots, vitamins, supplements) that Canelo is utilizing. Whether they are banned, and what they are is the question.
Canelo is so good and solid that maybe the only one who has a chance at beating Canelo is Usyk. Usyk comes back down to cruiserweight and it could happen. Usyk Vs Canelo or Canelo Vs Usyk…
Arturo, I’ve been reading several of your posts and I think you are just being sarcastic now:-)
Where do these huge payday numbers come from? Are the promoters making any money?
Canelo did good and this is his era. Plant certainly had the defense but you are not going to beat Canelo with defense alone. You must have heart. KO power. Skill. Determination. An iron chin. Good defense. And a relentless multi faceted offense. And a destruct and destroy mentality. UnfortunateIy, I don’t think that fighter exists in this era or in the super MW division.
But to add to that I will say Canelo has a nasty cloud hanging over his head with the PED suspension and other PED allegations. And to be great he will have to fight every real threat in whatever division he’s campaigning at. He will need to fight Andrade, and Charlo, if he comes down or if they move up. And he will need to fight Benevidez at super MW. You can’t duck anyone and expect to be mentioned in the same sentence as the all time greats. But he will always have that PED cloud of suspicion hanging over his head and tainting his legacy. Knocking points of his legacy.
Canelo beats big names and takes the titles from every single opposition and people called him a bum or shit fighter lmfao. Why is he hated so? I don’t understand. He’s a very good fighter and has respect inside and outside of the ring. Look at what he said to Plant after the fight regardless of what transpired prior, mad respect. He’s no different than any other big name before him like Mayweather. Mayweather too was hated and he too took what was in his way. I see greatness and am happy to witness it. There is no Super Middleweight or below that can beat Canelo, not right now. Not while he’s in his prime. Someone might have a chance once he starts to age, but right now he’s on top of the world. Benavidez and Charlo could be in the ring with him in the future. If they don’t duck or move up from him.
Haters gonna hate! If anyone thinks Plant was ahead you are the casual boxing fan. A few jabs and Pity Pat combos are not going to win a fight at this level. Canelo would be hard to beat. I don’t think the Charlo brother or Benavides have anything for him. Would love to see those fights.
The only ways I can see Canelo losing to anyone at 160 or 168 are, 1. If Canelo just totally loses focus or 2. If he runs into an opponent that has a skill set like Boots Ennis. Speed, Power, Chin, fundamentally sound and an extremely high ring IQ. Unfortunately that fighter doesn’t exist in those weight classes.
Canelo started out as a welterweight, and he moved around a bit as a teen. By the time he fought Floyd, he made 154 just right, but 152 he had to drop weight even more. Then he tried to hang around at Cenelo weight at 155, to try to avoid the Golovkin fight awhile longer. If Canelo wants to fight Golovkin a 3rd time, let 40 year old Golovkin move up to 168. I think Golovkin should be made to fight Plant at 168 (or Zach Parker, #6 IBF, 168). You have to have a power punches to deal with Golovkin at 160 or 168. Plant ducked down into the range of Canelo’s big punches in round 11. Not sure if round 10 really softened up Plant that much, but he seemed to fold quick in round 11 after the first knockdown, and he couldn’t recover from it.
Plant didn’t come to win this fight he came to collect a pay check and clock out and he did just that.
It’s time to boycott Canelo until he fight someone who’s going to fight back without fear. This fight was garbage.
For me the biggest next challege for Canelo would be ARTUR BETERBIEV at 175 pounds. A real monster (not a tired and shotted Kovalev) in that weight. For nothing I would miss that fight if it happens soon (Artur is already 37…). C’mon Canelo, if you accept the challege, win or loose, you would be incredible brave.
PSG, and if that fight happened after the fight he would be trash right?
No neccesary. For me It would a real competitive fight. Canelo and Artur both are able to win. If Canelo fought Kovalev a couple of years ago in 175, why not now against Beterbiev?? Great match up in my opinion
i cant stand canola
I think David Benavidez stops canelo, David Benavidez doesnt get tired in the later rounds like a Caleb!!
The numbers show a competitive fight which is what it was. If you let the commentators tell it it was a one sided beating and Caleb had no success. The commentating was so biased. Good win for Canelo. I don’t think any of these guys at 168 beat him. To do so you need both skill and power and these guys have one or the other.
The fight went the way I figured it would. I couldn’t understand why some guys were calling it 50-50, like Dwyer whom I normally agree with. I didn’t watch it so maybe I’m wrong and the fight was actually close despite the scorecards.
That said we have seen Canelo fight the best boxers of his generation. He fought Floyd. He fought GGG, he fought Saunders, he fought Lara, he fought Cotto.
The reason this is so important is that the lower divisions are much deeper with talent. Canelo learned all he needed to know from the lower weight classes. His foot speed was never bad. If his foot speed were bad he wouldn’t have taken rounds off Floyd. That’s all you need to know about it.
There’s a good reason the house had Canelo way up.
How come no one is talking about Plant leaving the ring without being interviewed or even showing up for the post-fight conference?
Watch the first ggg fight everyone owe saw it cannot say that was a draw canello lost and the 2 fight at best with GGG was a draw at best
For me it was a fair draw the first fight, and Canelo won the second one. I am objective, I love both fighters Golovkin and Canelo.