Caleb Plant has set a masterful example of how to respond to defeats in the ring, keeping himself relevant between fights by engaging in compelling physical and verbal action with future opponents and remaining a main-event fighter.
The proof is Tennessee’s former IBF super-middleweight champion Plant 23-2 (14 KOs) being assigned a May 31 Prime Video main event, as first reported by BoxingScene.
An official not authorized to speak publicly on the matter because a public announcement has not been finalized Tuesday confirmed a Ring Magazine report that Plant will meet Mexico’s Jose Armando Resendiz 15-2 (11 KOs).
The co-main event will feature former WBC middleweight champion Jermall Charlo 33-0 (22 KOs) in a super-middleweight bout that is not yet finalized, the official said.
Charlo is an established Plant antagonist whom Plant punched in the face in July 2023 during an unexpected meeting in the bowels of T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas during the Terence Crawford-Errol Spence Jnr fight week.
Plant, 32, has only lost to two of the sport’s most accomplished fighters, four-division champion Canelo Alvarez and unbeaten WBC interim light-heavyweight champion David Benavidez.
Placing both Plant and Charlo on the same card not only gives Charlo an opportunity to work off the rust because he’s been out of the ring since November 2023, it heightens the interest in a Plant-Charlo showdown should both post an expected victory on the card headed to Las Vegas.
“That is in the plans, but it’s not locked down yet,” the official told BoxingScene.
One of the reasons it’s not is because Plant has also talked his way into a well-publicized rivalry with recent super-middleweight title challenger Edgar Berlanga.
Plant and Berlanga first verbally clashed during the May Canelo Alvarez-Jaime Munguia weigh-in, and then renewed their back-and-forth during the Alvarez-Berlanga news conference during the summer, keeping the banter simmering through Berlanga’s return bout in March.
“We have to see what happens with Berlanga,” who’s now a promotional free agent, “but I would say there’s a very good chance we see it [Plant-Charlo] next,” the official said.
