Caleb Plant On Being Boxing's Enforcer, His Tough Upbringing, Stepping On Charlo

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Caleb Plant boxes Jose Armando Resendiz this weekend in Las Vegas, with Jermall Charlo in a separate bout in the hope that they meet later this year.

Plant is one of the most interesting characters in boxing today, principled, tough, he does not know how to take a backward step. The former super-middleweight champion talks to Tris Dixon about the rough upbringing that has made him, the losses he has suffered, and his hopes for the future.

Read the full interview here https://www.boxingscene.com/articles/caleb-plant-if-i-ask-someone-to-leave-me-alone-its-not-a-request-its-a-demand

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0:00.0	Oh, it's important not to let it change you.
0:03.6	Resist the temptation to totally uproot your life, you know?
0:07.1	I'll still do all the same things I did before.
0:09.7	I'm still me.
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0:30.1	Hey guys, welcome back to, I can't say boxing those stories, but I am going to be doing something different moving forward.
0:36.6	Some of you will know that I am over at boxing scene now and I'm joined by some of the finest writers in the world today including Matt Christie, Elliot Wurzel, Lance Pugmeier, Kira Mulvaney, Eric Raskin. The list is endless. We have such a fine team at the moment. But one thing that is allowing me to do is to speak to a lot of
0:55.8	fighters around the world on a very regular basis. So I do loads of interviews for the site.
1:01.4	And I figured I want to bring those interviews to you guys. So they are shorter than your average
1:07.4	boxing life stories. But they are. Some of them are topical. Some of them cover all life stories but they are some some of them are topical some of them
1:12.5	cover all bases but they are all unique and exclusive shall we say and I really thought that
1:21.4	there was a place for them out there in the podcast world and I thought you might enjoy them
1:26.8	so I'm going to start I've got a few in the bank I've And I thought you might enjoy them. So I'm going to start.
1:28.1	I've got a few in the bank.
1:29.3	I've got the likes of Caleb Plant, who you'll hear from today, Deonté Wilder,
1:34.2	Paddy Donovan, Kairone Davis, Callum Simpson.
1:38.0	There's a whole bunch of guys I'm speaking to.
1:39.9	And I speak to guys on a regular basis.
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