Comments Thread For: Photos: Caleb Plant Putting in Work For Anthony Dirrell Showdown

[Nightfall]

Why haven't Plant, Charlo and Benavidez fought each other? I don't see them as a group any more marketable than the guys in 154 who have been fighting each other.

Charlo is at 160 and making plans to unify. Plant and Benavidez will be fighting in the spring of 2023. This ranked fight is happening because Plant needs a come back and the (OLD) Dirrell isn't turning down a high profile check $. Benavidez ****ed everything up with his ******* issue and losing the 168 title on the scales. He's on his way back to the top as soon as clenelo stops ducking

[El_Maldito_Rey]

Charlo is at 160 and making plans to unify. Plant and Benavidez will be fighting in the spring of 2023. This ranked fight is happening because Plant needs a come back and the (OLD) Dirrell isn't turning down a high profile check $. Benavidez ****ed everything up with his ******* issue and losing the 168 title on the scales. He's on his way back to the top as soon as clenelo stops ducking

B!tch please. Charla isn't doing sh.it you dumb idiot. Charla out there getting cucked by his wife. When is he going to fight again? Cowardly tactics by you people, Andrade turned down a fight again and Charla turned down Benavidez, Canelo and everyone at 160.

[hhh1200]

B!tch please. Charla isn't doing sh.it you dumb idiot. Charla out there getting cucked by his wife. When is he going to fight again? Cowardly tactics by you people, Andrade turned down a fight again and Charla turned down Benavidez, Canelo and everyone at 160.

Andrade turned down 183K (from 1.08 million) from Brick Top and his UK bookies who were wagering he would decline the purse to set up Ryder vs Parker (Remember guys on here love the Central Asian and Eastern European names so did Andrade really duck English names?) who is more preferred comeback fight for Canelo after his layoff and his first UK fight mandatory defense. Check the lines. Boxing is a shady business.

Charla and Shields turned down 7 million plus a rematch clause which paid up to 10 million when DAZN was slinging money like a dope.

Big difference!

Now, I'm not Andrade's financial adviser but he should have taken the short money to force Canelo's hand with the WBO belt again as he did at 154 and 160. Parker is a better puncher (high KO% than fanboy favorite the GREAT Jenibek ) but has similarities to a young Brian Rose who Andrade obliterated.

[Offensive Wizardry]

So why did Fury Wilder fights not sell and the highest ppv is between a black and fillipino guy

because wilder already got ktfo and the highest ppv was between two greatest fighters of this generation. no matter what the color. pac and floyd are the exception not the rule.

kinda like what happened to george floyd and breonna taylor is the exception not the rule.

[JohnnyCan]

Because Trey you hit it on the head. Black v white used to play out in boxing between yrs 1900 -2000 when whites were still in tune with boxing (in America) and the country was still going through its civil rights beginnings. Whites are firmly in the UFC camp now. So now the big fights are usually black v Mexican. PPVweather v Manny was the highest grossing fight because Paq had the entire Asian-American wildly insane over himand if he could've beat a black fighter, who are considered kings of the sport, that would have propelled him into mythical status. It's unfortunate that our sport that we love so much is based on race but it is what it is.

Who ever said blacks are the king of the sport - I’ve never heard that. Eastern Europeans and Mexicans currently are the kings at the moment especially since Eastern Europeans have been allowed to fight pro the las couple decades.

[Ganondorf]

I’m rooting for Caleb! I’m tired of Anthony showing up one time per year on big PPV undercard fights!

Now that I think of it Plant generally isn’t much more active I don’t guess.

[messi807]

Who ever said blacks are the king of the sport - I’ve never heard that. Eastern Europeans and Mexicans currently are the kings at the moment especially since Eastern Europeans have been allowed to fight pro the las couple decades.

There are more black american title holders in the sport than any one else. more unified black champions in the sport than anyone else. more black American fighters on the P4P list than anyone else. Uysk is dope but he’s 35 years of age.

Eastern European fighters have no real prospects in the sport, all are 30+ years of age.. Bivol is probably the youngest and he’s 32. whereas there’s a ton of black american talent all 27 and under, which will take up much of the P4P lists in the coming years

Haney

Shakur

Keyshawn

Ennis

Shu Shu

Tank

Fulton

Gary Antuanne Russell.

Name me a Eastern Euro guy beneath the age of 30 that looks elite? Just one? Hrgovic looked good to me and he was 30 years of age until he arguably lost to Zhang and nearly got stopped. The future doesn’t look to good for Eastern Euro fighters