Caleb Plant is now not tasked with headlining the primary standalone Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) Prime Video card.
He’s, nonetheless, armed with a brand new struggle date.
The Ring has confirmed that Plant’s bout with unbeaten fringe contender Trevor McCumby will now happen on Sept. 14 at T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas. The tremendous middleweight struggle 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 evening was put aside as the primary non-PPV occasion to be offered beneath PBC’s new cope with Prime Video. Nonetheless, a reduce suffered by McCumby throughout coaching camp not solely postponed the struggle however killed off your complete 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 might open the door for Plant to re-enter the title image, a stage he loved from 2019-2021. Plant misplaced to Alvarez by way of eleventh-round knockout of their Nov. 2021 full unification bout to finish his IBF title reign. Simply two fights have adopted, each beneath the steering 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. Nonetheless, 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 file 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 beneath litigation, which pushed out the ruling till the next September.
A nine-month suspension adopted, throughout which period McCumby strongly thought of retirement. He had a change of coronary heart and has received 5 in a row since his 2018 return. The largest 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 struggle.
The 27-year-old Nuyorican was embroiled in a months-long social media beef with Plant, although few anticipated an precise struggle to come back 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 project versus Alvarez.
A two-city press tour is scheduled for Monday (New York) and Tuesday (Los Angeles) to formally announce the occasion.
