Canelo Alvarez and Eddie Hearn agree: Fighting Caleb Plants should happen to winning over Billy Joe Saunders

On Saturday night, Canelo Alvarez and Billy Joe Saunders will kick off in Arlington, Texas, three of the four major middleweight world championships accepted. The only fight that would make sense for the winner would be a meeting with IBB champion Caleb Plant to unite the division.

Promoter Alvarez and Eddie Hearn agree with that thinking, saying that Alvarez’s role in making history is the real focus here and now. Hearn told CBS Sports that there are only two reasons why Alvarez vs. Plant shouldn’t happen if Alvarez were to overtake Saunders on Saturday night.

“Politics, maybe. Or networks. It shouldn’t,” Hearn said. “This is something that is so bad in boxing. Here we have been able to make two champions for the unification fight. The winner of this fight can fight for the undisputed Caleb Plant. That should be a natural fight for boxing. Sometimes that’s it. Where boxing hits the teeth, not making a noticeable fight. I’m pretty sure Caleb Plant would like to take a shot at that fight. No doubt the winner on Saturday night will be the main dog in the 168-pound division. “

Alvarez, who has won the world championship in four weightlifting championships, has confirmed that the only thing on his mind was to overtake Saunders and meet Plant, to get rid of the idea of ​​returning to the lightweight division. Alvarez defeated Sergey Kovalev in November 2019 to win the WBO championship at 175 pounds, but immediately returned to the super middleweight to continue looking for four 168-pound belts.

“My personal goal is to put the titles together at 168 pounds,” Alvarez told CBS Sports. “Caleb Plant is another champion and hopefully we can carry out that fight. We don’t know [next] goal right now. Then we don’t know what will happen. I want to make history and that’s what we’re doing right now. “

Hearn agreed with Alvarez’s assessment of the situation. The plan says Saunders, then Plant and Alvarez’s desire to test himself left plenty of room for chance after a joint championship. However, Hearn said: “I don’t think the lightweight division is a division that is necessarily watching and saying ‘I have to go up there. It wants to try against the best fighters and keep up against the champions. Whether it goes up to 175 or up to 168. “.

Of course, before we talk about the return of the plant or light weight, Alvarez and Saunders enter the ring on Saturday night.

The fight was bizarre in the week of the fight, when Saunders suddenly threatened to come out of the event, with Hearn and Alvarez camped out with a ring that seemed small to him, in an effort to neutralize his ability to use movement and boxing. pull agitation.

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Alvarez sparked a speech by Saunders to help lay the groundwork for excuses for losses.

“The fight is going to happen,” Alvarez said. “He’s playing with a lot of excuses with the judges and the rings. They’re just excuses and the fight is going to happen.”

Hearn, who has sparked Sauder’s anger at the perceived favoritism in Alvarez’s direction, has been constantly trying to get Saunders ’actions to prepare his head to face the best pound fighter in the sport.

“I’ve been here before,” Hearn said. “I think sometimes you deal with different types of characters and personalities. It’s Billy Joe who’s probably taking the plane and flying home. You can say no, he wouldn’t do that. He won’t turn around. This opportunity is down.” Sometimes with people who are a little different. you meet and Billy is one of those guys.I had a little chat with Canelo and he didn’t see any problems and we moved on.We are all up and running and ready for a huge event on Saturday night.

“You think there are a lot of mental games. Actually with you. But in this fight he feels his back is against the wall, and that’s right. He’ll come to Texas in front of 70,000 people against the pound. No. 1 on the pound. He hasn’t done much media almost on strike. because he’s done it in so many ways.