Watch: Canelo Alvarez, Caleb Plant commerce blows at information convention

Canelo Alvarez and Caleb Plant couldn’t wait till Nov. 6 to start out throwing arms.
The tremendous middleweight champions traded blows at their information convention Tuesday to advertise their upcoming title unification bout, and the change left Plant with a minimize underneath his proper eye.
The fighters scuffled after exchanging verbal barbs throughout the ceremonial faceoff earlier than the information convention started within the backyard of the Beverly Hilton. Apparently in response to a remark from Plant about Alvarez’s mom, the Mexican celebrity knocked Plant backward with a two-handed shove.
“You can say whatever you want to me, but not about my mother,” Alvarez stated afterward.
Plant stepped ahead and threw a left hook at Alvarez, who largely dodged it and countered with a left hand to Plant’s face. Plant stated the blow struck his sun shades, which jammed into his cheek and induced the minimize.

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— David Bod (@boxingbod) September 22, 2021
“We were just saying things, just the normal back-and-forth banter, and then he did what he did,” Plant stated.
Alvarez put it succinctly on Twitter whereas posting video of the brouhaha: “Don’t talk about my mom.”
The fighters’ camps finally separated them, however Plant was left dabbing on the blood on his cheek. He finally placed on his sun shades for a frosty, combative information convention by which Plant repeatedly referred to as out Alvarez for his doping violations in 2018.
Alvarez (56-1-2, 38 KOs) will danger his WBC, WBA and WBO tremendous middleweight titles in opposition to Plant (21-0, 12 KOs), the unbeaten IBF champion from Tennessee, after they meet on the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Plant repeatedly stated Alvarez and coach Eddy Reynoso are cheaters.” Alvarez was suspended for six months for clenbuterol detected in a drug take a look at, though the Mexican champ claimed the banned substance got here from tainted meat.
“This sport is too dangerous for people to be popping positive,” Plant stated.

“He’s a cheater. It’s not up for discussion. Did he get suspended? Did he test positive? It’s not about what I say. It’s about what the (athletic) commission said. You have to take that up with them, not me.”
Reynoso responded angrily when pressed on Alvarez’s previous optimistic take a look at and the more moderen failed doping take a look at for Oscar Valdez, Canelo’s coaching associate. Speaking in Spanish, Reynoso didn’t instantly deal with Plant’s feedback, however as an alternative profanely advised Plant wasn’t coaching laborious sufficient to win in seven weeks.
“Taking illegal substances doesn’t happen because you’re confident,” Plant stated.
“It happens because you’re afraid. That just gives me more confidence. I’ve dedicated a lot to this sport, and it will be my life’s work coming together in that one moment when I beat him. It would etch my name in the history books, and that’s what I’m here to do.”
Alvarez is unbeaten in 15 fights since his solely profession loss to Floyd Mayweather in 2013. He traded insults with Plant after their bodily change, however stored his public feedback extra temporary.
“For me, it’s for history, for Mexico, for my team,” he stated.
“I’m going to knock out this guy in less than eight rounds.”