Tonight at 8 pm ET on FOX, Caleb Plant returns to action to defend the IBF super middleweight title against former titleholder Caleb Truax, as we finally find out which man is boxing’s top Caleb.
Prelims will begin at 6 pm ET on FS1, and Wil Esco will be on round-by-round coverage for the main card starting at 8 ET, and featuring three fights total.
Plant, 28, isn’t just looking to retain his IBF belt, as there is also a huge potential chance for him to fight Canelo Alvarez later this year should he do so. With Alvarez looking to win all four belts at super middleweight and having already grabbed the WBC and WBA titles, WBO titleholder Billy Joe Saunders is tentatively agreed for a May bout with Canelo. If Alvarez wins on Feb. 27 against Avni Yildirim and then in May against Saunders, the IBF belt would be the only one he doesn’t have.
How to Watch Plant vs Truax
Date: Saturday, Jan. 30 | Start Time: 8 pm ET (Main Card) / 6 pm ET (Prelims)
Location: Shrine Exposition Center – Los Angeles, CA
V: FOX (Main Card) / FS1 (Prelims)
Online Coverage: BadLeftHook.com
For the 37-year-old Truax, this is likely the last chance he’s going to get at a world title, so he’ll be looking to make it count. And there is that small, outside chance he could also find himself in the ring with Canelo this year should he upset Plant, at which point he’d probably have to rematch Plant and win again. But that’s the path, difficult as it may be.
Heavyweights Michael Coffie and Darmani Rock will also meet in a 10-rounder, and middleweight prospect Joey Spencer will be in action on FOX, too. The FS1 prelims are headlined by former two-weight titleholder Rances Barthelemy facing All Rivera in a 10-round welterweight fight.
Prelims (FS1, 6:00 pm ET)
- Rances Barthelemy (27-1-1, 14 KO) vs All Rivera (21-4, 18 KO), welterweights, 10 rounds
- Brandyn Lynch (10-1, 8 KO) vs Mark Hernandez (14-4-1, 3 KO), middleweights, 8 rounds
- Atif Oberlton (debut) vs Nathan Sharp (4-2, 4 KO), light heavyweights, 4 rounds
Main Card (FOX, 8:00 pm ET)
- Caleb Plant (20-0, 12 KO) vs Caleb Truax (31-4-2, 19 KO), super middleweights, 12 rounds, for Plant’s IBF title
- Michael Coffie (11-0, 8 KO) vs Darmani Rock (17-0, 12 KO), heavyweights, 10 rounds
- Joey Spencer (11-0, 8 KO) vs Isiah Seldon (14-3-1, 5 KO), middleweights, middleweights, 8 rounds