For the most part, boxers often tend to leave their issues with one another in the ring. They may hoot and holler with one another outside of it, but usually, they refrain from actually getting physical.

Caleb Plant, at least from his side of the story, didn’t want to have a physical altercation with Jermall Charlo. However, he doesn’t believe he had much of a choice.

Just a day or two before Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford got it on, you would’ve sworn that Plant and Charlo were going to be in the co-feature. According to Plant, Charlo grabbed his beard twice before calling him all sorts of names. Unwilling to simply allow someone to treat him flippantly, Plant open hand slapped the former two-division champ.

Fighting in the street isn’t something that Plant is a fan of, although he’s done it before. At this stage, he still doesn’t like Charlo. So, with no fights lined up on his schedule as of now, Plant is hoping that the two can eventually meet up, even if that means they both have to fight someone else in the interim beforehand.

“In a perfect world for me right now, if we can’t get Jermall Charlo right away, we go to a tune-up fight,” explained Plant to I Am Athlete. “Let him get a tune-up fight since he had a little break.”

As Plant alludes to, it’s been a long time since anyone has seen Charlo compete, over two years to be exact.

Taking advantage of someone who likely built up an incredible amount of ring rust isn’t in Plant’s plans. What is, however, is both David Benavidez and Canelo Alvarez.

On two separate occasions, Plant came up just short against both men. Although he took his losses on the chin and never made any excuses, Plant hasn’t forgotten those unfortunate nights.

If everything goes according to plan and Plant can line up a showdown against Charlo and win, he believes that both Alvarez and Benavidez will have no choice but to face him again.

“After I whoop him (Charlo), get a rematch with Canelo, become undisputed and then run it back with David.”