Caleb Hunter Plant was born on July 8,1992 and is an American professional boxer who held the IBF super middleweight title from 2019 to 2021 and the WBA Interim Super Middleweight title since September 2024.
32 Facts About Caleb Plant
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Caleb Plant won the 2011 Golden Gloves in the light heavyweight division.
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Caleb Plant made his professional debut on May 10,2014, when he was scheduled to fight Travis Davidson.
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Caleb Plant won the fight by a first-round knockout, ending the fight after just 47 seconds.
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Caleb Plant won his next eight fights, five of them by stoppage.
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Caleb Plant fought Thomas Awimbono in the main event of PBC on FOX, on February 25,2017.
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Caleb Plant completely dominated his opponent, with the judges awarding him every single round of the fight.
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Caleb Plant utilized his jab to score points and accumulate damage on the advancing Medina, while using his superior ring-craft to stay out of Medina's punching range.
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Caleb Plant was the IBF mandatory, having earned the right to challenge for the title after defeating Rogelio Medina by unanimous decision.
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Caleb Plant needed surgery to repair the injury followed by rehabilitation.
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Caleb Plant's fight with Uzcategui was rescheduled for January 13,2019.
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Caleb Plant came into the bout as a +161 underdog, while Uzcategui was a -200 favorite to defend the title.
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Caleb Plant got off to a great start, managing to score a knockdown in the second round.
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Caleb Plant had caught the off-balanced Uzcategui with a left hook, which dropped the champion to the canvas.
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Caleb Plant out-landed Uzcategui by 217 to 157 punches, landing more jabs and power shots along the way.
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Caleb Plant made his first IBF title defense against Mike Lee, on July 20,2019.
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Accordingly, Caleb Plant came into the bout as a -1944 favorite, while Lee was a +1119 underdog.
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Caleb Plant completely dominated his opponent throughout the bout, earning a technical knockout victory midway through the third round.
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Caleb Plant staggered Lee with a body shot in the second round, and increased the number of landed shots to 41, compared to Lee's seven.
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Caleb Plant knocked his opponent down three times in the third round: the first knockdown came after Caleb Plant landed a right straight, the second after a left hook, while the third knockdown was the result of a right straight.
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Caleb Plant justified his role as the favorite, winning by a tenth-round technical knockout, after dominating Feigenbutz through all ten rounds leading up to the knockout.
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However, many fans expressed their disappointment with the match-up, as it was expected that Caleb Plant would fight Canelo Alvarez in a super middleweight title unification bout.
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Caleb Plant dominated the fight by outboxing Truax from a distance, while Truax tried unsuccessfully to get closer and force the action at close range.
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Caleb Plant fought the reigning WBA, WBC, WBO and The Ring super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez in a title unification bout on November 6,2021, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Paradise, Nevada, United States.
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Caleb Plant entered the bout as an underdog for the first time since his fight with Jose Uzcategui, with most odds-makers having him as a +550 underdog.
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Caleb Plant lost the bout via eleventh-round technical knockout losing the IBF title, with the loss being the very first in his professional career.
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Caleb Plant was booked to face the former two-time WBC super middleweight champion Anthony Dirrell in a WBC super middleweight title eliminator, on the undercard of the Deontay Wilder vs Robert Helenius heavyweight bout, which took place at the Barclays Center in New York City.
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Caleb Plant knocked out Dirrell in the ninth round with an emphatic left hook to the head, before immediately celebrating by miming digging his opponent's grave while Dirrell was receiving medical attention, as he still remained motionless on the canvas.
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Caleb Plant was set to face Trevor McCumby for the vacant interim WBA super middleweight title at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on September 14,2024.
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Caleb Plant was scheduled to defend his interim WBA super middleweight title against Jose Armando Resendiz at Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas on May 31,2025.
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In March 2019, his mother, Beth Caleb Plant, was shot by police after pulling a knife on an officer.
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Caleb Plant is married to Jordan Caleb Plant, a Fox Sports reporter.