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David Benavidez has an even lower opinion of Caleb Plant after the latter’s extracurricular scuffle.
Plant was involved in a melee with Canelo Alvarez at a press conference back in September for their Nov. 6 undisputed super middleweight title bout in Las Vegas on Showtime Pay-Per-View. After the two traded words during a face-off, Alvarez pushed Plant. Plant then responded by swiping at Alvarez with an open-handed left hand that appeared to graze the Mexican champion. Alvarez, in turn, responded instantaneously with his own counter salvo. The exchange left Plant with a small cut below his right eye.
Benavidez, suffice to say, was hardly impressed with his nemesis.
“That’s what happens with Caleb Plant,” Benavidez told Little Giant Boxing. “He thinks he’s a tough guy when he’s not. He’s not like that. So, like you said, he tried to sucker punch my brother, he goes and tries to sucker punch Canelo. He’s finally getting what he deserves.”
In a video captured a couple of years ago by FightyHype.com, Plant is seen squabbling with welterweight Jose Benavidez Jr., David’s older brother, in the gym, before a fracas between the fighters and their entourage breaks out.
Asked who he believed was the winner or loser in the Plant-Alvarez contretemps, Benavidez chortled.
“The guy that’s not cut and bleeding from his face, Canelo,” Benavidez said. “Who do you think?
“Caleb Plant wishes he had the power that I had. What does he have, three knockouts in 20 fights?”
Benavidez, a former WBC super middleweight titleholder, and Plant have gone back and forth over the years with their own sallies (of the verbal variety, so far). Benavidez hopes to get a shot at the Nashville native sometime soon. For now, he has his own business to take care of. Benavidez (24-0, 21 KOs) takes on Kyrone Davis (16-2-1, 6 KOs) on Nov. 13 at the Footprint Center in Benavidez’s hometown of Phoenix.