Caleb Plant is not tasked with headlining the primary standalone Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) Prime Video card.
He’s, nonetheless, armed with a brand new battle date.
The Ring has confirmed that Plant’s bout with unbeaten fringe contender Trevor McCumby will now happen on Sept. 14 at T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas. The tremendous middleweight battle will function a part of the Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez-Edgar Berlanga PBC on Prime Pay-Per-View occasion.
Brunch Boxing’s Matthew “Bellini” Brown was the primary to report the event.
Plant-McCumby was beforehand budgeted to happen on Aug. 17 at Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida. The night time was put aside as the primary non-PPV occasion to be offered below PBC’s new cope with Prime Video. Nevertheless, a minimize suffered by McCumby throughout coaching camp not solely postponed the battle however killed off your entire present.
The four-week delay now places Plant (22-2, 13 knockouts) within the presence of his divisional rivals.
Plant has not fought since his hard-fought defeat to David Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) final March in Las Vegas. Benavidez, No. 1 at 168, stays the highest contender to Alvarez’s undisputed championship however will as an alternative marketing campaign at 175.
It may open the door for Plant to re-enter the title image, a stage he loved from 2019-2021. Plant misplaced to Alvarez through eleventh-round knockout of their Nov. 2021 full unification bout to finish his IBF title reign. Simply two fights have adopted, each below the steerage of gifted boxing thoughts Stephen ‘Breadman’ Edwards.
Previous to the Benavidez bout, Plant—a Tennessee native now based mostly in Las Vegas—knocked out Anthony Dirrell within the ninth-round of their Oct. 2022 battle in Brooklyn, New York. Nevertheless, his prolonged ring absence because the Benavidez defeat ended pressured him out of The Ring’s 168-pound rankings. He was ranked number-three previous to that time.
McCumby (28-0, 21 KOs) holds an unblemished report however versus restricted opposition.
The unbeaten 31-year-old from Glendale, Arizona beforehand recorded a career-best first-round knockout of Donovan George. It was transformed to a No-Contest, nonetheless, when McCumby examined constructive for a banned substance following their Nov. 2016 assembly. The matter was below litigation, which pushed out the ruling till the next September.
A nine-month suspension adopted, throughout which era McCumby strongly thought-about retirement. He had a change of coronary heart and has received 5 in a row since his 2018 return. The most important was in his most up-to-date outing, a ten-round determination over Chris Pearson on a Jan. 31 ProBox present in Plant Metropolis, Florida.
Alvarez makes an attempt the seventh protection of his RING championship together with the WBC and WBA 168-pound titles. His WBO belt can be at stake for the sixth time. The IBF strap was faraway from his possession for failure to defend versus William Scull (22-0, 9 KOs).
Berlanga (22-0, 17 KOs) enters his first profession title battle.
The 27-year-old Nuyorican was embroiled in a months-long social media beef with Plant, although few anticipated an precise battle to return from the state of affairs. Berlanga, No. 9 at 168 by The Ring, was all the time a number one candidate to land the dream task versus Alvarez.
A two-city press tour is scheduled for Monday (New York) and Tuesday (Los Angeles) to formally announce the occasion.
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