Comments Thread For: Plant On Drilling Dirrell: I'd Say It'd Be Best Knockout Of My Career, Knockout Of The Year
NEW YORK - Caleb Plant smirked when he jokingly downplayed how good it felt to knock Anthony Dirrell unconscious Saturday night.
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Haters gonna hate. Not even a KO of the year contender is gonna stop that. Plant is a gifted boxer and has enough power to be dangerous and keep his opponents honest. I'd say he probably hits - for his weight class - harder than Floyd did at 147/154 or Haney, but at near the same level of boxing prowess. And Floyd and Haney hit hard enough to stop their opponents from walking right in. That said, I like this more aggressive Plant (any boxer, really - including Haney's last performance). Hopefully, Breadman continues to make him see there's more "food on the table" when he fights. At the highest levels of competition you're going to get less knockouts, so this "let me see his ass ko someone ranked top 10 in their prime… won’t happen" commentary is nonsense.
As for fights against Benavidez and Charlo, those are real fights. Both those guys box well - if not as well as Plant - and have more power. I'd favor either of them over Plant right now, but they should be really good fights.
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