Caleb Plant refuses to back down from Canelo Alvarez, plans to get his hand raised 'by any means necessary'
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Plant, the IBF super middleweight champion, took one of the hardest paths imaginable to reach the biggest fight of his career
Although he enters Saturday's unification bout to crown the first four-belt undisputed champion in super middleweight history, unbeaten IBF champion Caleb Plant doesn't have to look too far to realize how much he is being counted out ahead of the biggest fight of his career.
Most of that, to be fair, is because of the greatness achieved over the past decade by his opponent -- WBA, WBO and WBC champion Canelo Alvarez (56-1-2, 38 KOs), who holds the rare distinction of being the undisputed pound-for-pound king along with boxing's biggest global star.
But even though every single major sportsbook has given Plant (21-0, 12 KOs) the kind of wide odds as an overwhelming underdog that make this fight inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas (Showtime PPV, 9 p.m. ET) feel like nothing more than a formality, the numbers don't tell the whole story.
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