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Álvarez-Plant FIGHT
Two weeks ago, video resurfaced on social media of an outside-the-ring skirmish between a teenage Caleb Plant and a bigger, unnamed opponent. Plant said the fight took place in 2010 in Cleveland, Tenn., where he had traveled to train for a national tournament. Between sessions at a local gym, Plant played pickup basketball at an outdoor court where, he said, the fight started.
The footage shows a shirtless Plant dodging punches, moving in circles and intermittently hitting his opponent, hard enough to unsettle him but not with enough force to damage his own hands. After nearly a minute of chasing, swinging, and missing, Plant’s exhausted antagonist reaches into his pocket for what appears to be a knife — which is to say he conceded defeat in a fair fight. Plant sprinted away from the scene, but he had won.
“Just a bully trying to be a bully,” Plant said in an interview. “But he ran into the wrong one that day and got embarrassed.”
And what did Plant learn from the fight?
That it’s better to avoid them.
“The best thing is to train and go home,” he said. “If you don’t want to get into a bar fight, don’t go to a bar.”
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/06/sports/canelo-plant-usman-covington-fights