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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4037671, member: 289"]
Canelo Alvarez faced easily his best opponent since Golovkin in Caleb Plant. Plant was quick, durable and had a great jab he used to keep Canelo at bay in the early rounds of the fight. They mentioned that maybe the one chink in Canelo's armor was that he was not good at cutting off the ring and Plant was able to move around and give him some difficult angle to attack. Plant also used the Mayweather shoulder roll to evade some of Canelo's punches. Plant's problem was that he didn't have a lot other than his jab and Canelo finally decided he'd have to absorb those jabs and go straight in. Canelo was much the better infighter and his punches elicited an audible "thunk" when they landed. Plant's punts were silent.

Canelo used his openings to thunk Plant's body and alternated those blows with some head shots, although some of those missed, including one where the Showtime announcers said that the people in the first row felt the breeze from that one. Plant did plant a hard right in the fourth but when he looked up, Canelo was still standing there. Eventually, those 'thunks' added up and Plant's output began to fade. In the 11th round Canelo knocked Plant against the ropes, which Plant had to use to hold himself up. That's a knockdown. Canelo's a great finisher and he knocked Plant onto his back, ending the fight.

There was talk that Canelo wanted to remain in the 168 pound division, where he now holds all the belts and that his next opponent might be named Charlo. David Benavdiez was also mentioned. ESPN's article is talking about Golovkin III.
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