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Tuesday’s press conference between Canelo Alvarez and Caleb Plant ended in a fight that can assign their November bout in jeopardy.
An Alvarez punch landed squarely in Plant’s eye, causing a indispensable slit that Mike Coppinger of ESPN acknowledged “assuredly postpones fights” if suffered in coaching. Alvarez and Plant are slated for one of the critical year’s excellent fights Nov. 6 in Las Vegas.
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The severity of the harm is unknown right now, but it absolutely can be a indispensable setback if the fight needed to be pushed support—especially given this was your same outdated prefight brouhaha gone overboard. Alvarez shoved Plant hard after a disagreement, leading to Plant throwing a wild overlooked punch that Canelo countered with a sq. shot to his eye.
Plant already is space to enter the bout as a heavy underdog towards Alvarez, who’s broadly viewed because the arena’s most productive pound-for-pound fighter. The 21-0 IBF natty middleweight champion opened as a +550 underdog but has gone on the offensive within the disagreement leading as much as the bout.
“I bask in my possibilities in any fight,” Plant instructed Lance Pugmire of The Athletic. “If I didn’t judge I will defend, y’all wouldn’t grasp these cameras in my face appropriate now. You guys grasp made a good deal of fight predictions before, but you guys grasp been inappropriate. how many cases I’ve been inappropriate? None.”
Alvarez has handiest one profession loss, towards Floyd Mayweather in 2013, but worn that fight as a platform to become one of the critical arena’s excellent boxing attracts.
The winner of the bout will become the first undisputed champion at 168 kilos for the reason that sport expanded to four belts per weight class.
