Boxing fans across the globe are still talking about the brawl that happened at the first press conference to promote the upcoming Canelo Alvarez-Caleb Plant fight. And Caleb Plant is sure he knows the source of the anger that caused Canelo to shove him hard with both hands to the chest.
Caleb Plant has asserted repeatedly that Canelo and other members of his camp use performance-enhancing drugs to gain an advantage over opponents. The Canelo camp has not been kind in its response to the allegations.
Plant comes into the fight 21-0 with 12 knockouts to his credit. He says he is confident in himself, less than two weeks away from the biggest fight in his life. “I know I’m gonna win this fight,” He sounded off to interview Brian Custer. “I don’t need you guys to believe it. The only person’s gotta believe it is me.”
Canelo Alvarez is 56-1-2 in his 59 professional fights. He has stopped 38 fighters inside the scheduled number of rounds. Canelo says Plant’s accusations and behavior show his insecurity as a fighter. Caleb Plant takes exception to these words.
“Taking banned substances, isn’t that insecure,” Plant counters. “Because taking banned substances doesn’t stem from confidence.”
Caleb Plant elaborated on the thought by saying, “That stems from fear. Fear of not making weight, fear of your condition being this or your power being this.” The IBF super-middleweight champion ended his assessment by saying taking banned substances “doesn’t stem from what you think you can do, it stems from what you think you can’t do.”
Caleb Plant says he pushed for 12 weeks of drug testing during fight negotiations. He explains he settled for ten weeks of testing. He questions why Canelo is not more concerned with making sure his opponents are clean coming into fights. “If I was king of the hill, no one could fight me without 12 weeks of testing.”
Plant’s final words to boxing fans are that he is not in the fight only to collect the reported $10 million he will receive to face Canelo. “I’m not here to hand my belt over and let him ride off into the sunset,” Plant tells the boxing world. “This is not his Cinderella story. This is my Cinderella story.”