By Jake Donovan
Having long grown used to fight dates serving as moving targets, Caleb Plant insists he’s just as ready to go in two more weeks as if he were fighting Tuesday evening as originally planned.
The unbeaten middleweight prospect will next appear on June 3 edition of Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on Spike TV, live from Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Florida.
By his own admission, he was unclear of the opponent – “I stay ready for anybody, I don’t even care who I’m fighting next” – although BoxingScene.com has learned that he will next face Colombia’s Carlos Galvan. The bout comes in supporting capacity to a show topped by unbeaten lightweight titlist Rances Barthelemy in his first defense versus former beltholder Mickey Bey.
Plant (12-0, 9KOs) will mark his fifth televised appearance, all coming within his last eight stars The 23-year old from Ashland City, Tennessee – who trains in Nashville, roughly 30 minutes from his hometown – is coming off of a 6th round knockout over Adasat Rodriguez this past January, in a bout that aired live on FS1.
The upcoming clash with Galvan (12-4-1, 11KOs) represents his first on Spike TV as well as his first in Florida, where he has regularly trained in past training camps.
“I’m really enjoying the direction of my career,” Plant told BoxingScene.com following a recent workout at Music City Boxing Gym in Nashville. “I was able to get five fights in my first seven months as a pro, six more last year. We said going in that 2016 will be about moving forward, taking on different styles and showing my full arsenal.”
Early fights suggested Plant to be a one-hitter quitter, but recent televised appearances have shown his ability to box – and flair for what has been deemed as in-ring showboating.
“That’s just me having fun in there,” Plant insists. “I never mean any disrespect to my opponents. When I go in there, my mission is to beat them using everything in my repertoire. I love boxing; this isn’t just my job, it’s my livelihood. So when I get in a certain place (mentally) in the ring, I like to change it up a bit to get the fight back to where I need it.”
The 2012 U.S. Olympic alternate was initially budgeted to appear on Tuesday’s edition of PBC on FS1 in Carlton, Minnesota. A reshuffling of opponents – after struggling to initially find a willing candidate – meant pushing things back by another two weeks.
“Whether I fight tonight, next month or whenever, it doesn’t matter to me.” Plant said. “It’s not like we get a training camp and it’s running long. My training camp began May 9, 2014, the day I made weight for my first pro fight. I was in the gym every day before then, and I haven’t left since then, except to get on a plane to travel to my next fight.”
Jake Donovan is the managing editor of BoxingScene.com. Follow his shiny new Twitter account: @JakeNDaBox_v2


