David Benavidez vs. Caleb Plant fight prediction, odds, preview,

Many of the elements of the most compelling fights will be present on Saturday night when David Benavidez and Caleb Plant clash in a Showtime pay-per-view main event. The style matchup promises fun action, the two men have grown an increasingly strong dislike for each other and the opponent poses several interesting questions for both men.

Benavidez is facing by far the best opponent of his career in Plant, a slick boxer with higher-level skills than any of Benavidez’s previous foes. Benavidez will be forced to see if his pressure-first style can get to — and break down — a fighter who has made his living by not often being there to be hit.

To date, Benavidez has been perfect in his career, with 26 wins in 26 trips to the ring, 23 of those coming by knockout. His worst opponent has been himself, twice losing world titles because of his own missteps. First, Benavidez was stripped of the WBC super middleweight championship in 2018 after testing positive for cocaine. After regaining the title, he was stripped again after failing to make weight for his August 2020 fight with Roamer Alexis Angulo.

He now holds the WBC interim super middleweight title, which he will put on the line on Saturday.

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Plant has been in with one truly great fighter in his professional campaign, giving a good effort in November 2021 against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez before being stopped in the 11th round. Benavidez and Alvarez are not carbon copies of each other, but like Alvarez, Benavidez will force Plant to try and navigate the space between defensive slickness and planting his feet to exchange punches.

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