Paulie Malignaggi says that Caleb Plant must “assess” whether he is hungry to continue his career after losing to Armando Resndiz last Saturday evening in Las Vegas.
The hunger for the plant questioned
The short-lived master of super medium WBA (23-3, 14 KO) lost the 12-round divided decision for RESENDIZ (26-2, 11 KO). The loss of Caleb potentially derailed his plans to fight Jermall Charlo next on PPV.
Malingaggi says he doesn’t know if the plant has hunger to continue the fight because he has already earned good money and has a family. He asks if Caleb is willing to put an effort against hungry warriors, such as Resendiz.
He looked at me hungry, but he had a face in a face with a guy with a chin, power and internal game. Plant could not stop the Restndiz outside and was beaten inside.
“I don’t know what the Caleb plant is doing. He didn’t look hungry for me, but of course he still had all his departments. If he is no longer hungry, he must judge it himself. He didn’t look hungry today,” said Paulie Malignaggi on his own canal About Caleb Plant after losing to Armando Rediz last Saturday.
The “Honey” plant looked the same as usual, but it was hit by many demanding shots of the younger warrior who applied it on it. Immense shots that landed plants that gave older, smaller fighters, such as Anthony Dirrell and Trevor McCumbby, did not affect Resendiz.
Plant: “Fight not to lose”
“Fighting not to lose. His intention was to overcome the Restndiz and fight with Jermall Charlo. You want to hit them enough to stop them from you,” said Malignaggi about what went wrong for Plant. “Rezendiz did not cooperate. So now you have to fight these guys.”
The plant fought as always; His talent was not enough to overcome this warrior level. If you come back and see the previous Plant’s fights with Jose Uzcatelui, Mike Lee, Caleb Trax and Vincent Feigenbutz, he looked the same against them as in the fight against Resendiz.
The difference was that RESENDIZ was better than these fighters in terms of his pressure, game and impact resistance. If Plant had fought earlier in his career, he would lose to him as last Saturday evening. In other words, the plant was never as good as boxing fans thought.
“As the fight was fought, the plant had no fight in it, because now you have to do what you did in [Trevor] McCumbby is fighting again and you have to fight in you. There are only as many times in which you call it in your career, especially when you are behind schedule and you earned good money. It is much harder to lead this dog out of you, especially consistently at this age with all other variables that I have just mentioned.
The fight Charlo-resndiz was discussed
“Resendiz has two great victories. Caleb Plant was not as shot as Jarrett Hurd. Now you do not suddenly do not have Charlo-Cuteb’s plant, but do you have Charlo and Resendiz?” Paulie said.
As long as Jermalla’s promoters are fine when his next fight is regular PBC in Prime Video, RESSENDIZ would be a good idea. However, Charlo’s management will probably want him to be on PPV for the next fight. Now that the plant lost, it would be stupid to continue the original plan to fight the plant.
Charlo has been out of the game for too many years to sell in Pay-Per-View. Even if Plant won last Saturday, the fight between him and Charlo would not make enormous numbers in Pay-Per-View. There is not enough older fans who would like to pay $ 75 to watch these two.
“Do we make charlo-resandiz because we still don’t know how much Charlo is left,” Paulie said. “The revival is ongoing. I think RESENDIZ is a good logical step. This is not a great fight and it would not be sold to you like a great fight, such as Charlo and Plant. But I did not think that Charlo and Plant will be a great fight anyway.”
PBC would have to believe that Charlo would win to give him a green lightweight to face Reiniz. Based on his performance against Lamanna, I wouldn’t do it if I were with PBC.
Charlo struck through Lamanna too often so that he could put him in a guy like RESENDIZ. The shots with which the Restendiz hit the plant inside would give Jermall many problems. There has been no game for too many years and is too elderly to be hit by 26-year-old RESENDIZ.
“But this fight makes sense in steps to restore Jermalla Charlo. If he defeated RESENDIZ, now it is a good win, because Resendiz won with the factory and won [Jarrett] Hurd. He has a pretty decent CV for Charlo to win such a guy – said Paulie.
It would be a good win for Jermall, if he defeated the Restndiz, and it potentially led to the fight with Edgar Berlang, Diego Pacheco or Christian Mbilli. It is doubtful that Canelo willingly fight Charlo. He would fight Charlo only when Turki Alalshikh offered him a few money. He doesn’t take risks unless he pays huge money. Turki would have to initiate this.
PBC Charlo Returns
“But if Restendiz defeats Charlo, he adds his name to his CV. Anyway, the winner can be nicely set in the 168 pounds division,” said Malignaggi.
It does not seem realistic that Charlo’s guides will allow him to get tangled with the re -performance after the performances on the last Saturday. Jermall does not shine enough to Thomas Lamanna to risk puting him in Resendiz, and told him to land on arrows with which he hit the plant.
We saw what the very average Juan Macias Montiel for Jermall four years ago in 2021. It was against a much better version of Charlo than the one we saw last Saturday night against Lamanna. Charlo looked like there was only 50% of what he was against Montiel, but fortunately for him he faced the journeyman, not someone like RESENDIZ.
Another day, another Zuffa signee losing his belt for shirking his responsibilities. WBO president Gustavo Olivieri announced that the sanctioning body has denied middleweight champion Denzel Bentley’s appeal for a voluntary defense, giving him 24 hours to commit to facing mandatory challenger Yoenli Hernandez.
Bentley (22-3-1, 18 KO) was the beneficiary of Janibek Alimkhanuly’s failed drug test and subsequent emigration to the super middleweight division, as the move elevated the interim belt he’d claimed against Endry Saavendra in April to the real deal. That came with conditions, namely a mandated showdown with Hernandez (11-0, 9 KO) that failed to produce a a contract.
As for who’ll fight Hernandez for it, Vito Mielnicki Jr sits behind him at no. 2, followed by an otherwise-occupied Tim TszyuMichael Zerafa (lmao), and Fiodor Czerkaszyn. We’ll let you know as soon as an enterprising bachelor steps up.
Another day, another Zuffa signee losing his belt for shirking his responsibilities. WBO president Gustavo Olivieri announced that the sanctioning body has denied middleweight champion Denzel Bentley’s appeal for a voluntary defense, giving him 24 hours to commit to facing mandatory challenger Yoenli Hernandez.
Bentley (22-3-1, 18 KO) was the beneficiary of Janibek Alimkhanuly’s failed drug test and subsequent emigration to the super middleweight division, as the move elevated the interim belt he’d claimed against Endry Saavendra in April to the real deal. That came with conditions, namely a mandated showdown with Hernandez (11-0, 9 KO) that failed to produce a a contract.
As for who’ll fight Hernandez for it, Vito Mielnicki Jr sits behind him at no. 2, followed by an otherwise-occupied Tim TszyuMichael Zerafa (lmao), and Fiodor Czerkaszyn. We’ll let you know as soon as an enterprising bachelor steps up.
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is back on the scene with a new knee! And now that he’s getting around again, he was able to catch up with Fight Hub TV to give his perspective on what’s been going on in the boxing business as of late, particularly as it pertains to Zuffa Boxing who appear to be in a state of flux. Check out what he had to say below!
Arum on Zuffa’s place in boxing landscape
“When you look at Zuffa, they are hoping to do what they’re doing with Saudi money and the Saudis have poured a lot of money into the sport and for a while were backing Zuffa, so Zuffa felt emboldened to offer big [money] to good fighters like Shakur Stevenson. Now, apparently the Saudis, Turki and Sela have gotten the word from up high in Saudi Arabia, ‘hey, this money is not going to be unlimited, you’ve got to cut down,’ or there’s no money — I don’t know what they’ve told them.
“So the Saudis are clearly pulling back and who knows if they’re going to be involved in boxing after this year. They’ve already, apparently, sold Ring Magazine to DAZN. So, if the Saudi money isn’t there, Zuffa is not going to spend its own money to promote fights because they have announced to their shareholders that they would not do that. And if they start doing it, then they leave themselves open to a major shareholder suit.
“So, again, we have to see what’s going to happen. There’s no animosity, people are doing what they feel is best for them and that’s business. How this all turns out, we’re going to have to see next year and the years after that.”
On whether he thinks Zuffa has done a good job thus far
“What does it mean to have done a good job? If somebody gave me a barrel of money to put on fights, would I be doing a good job? Sure. But anybody would be doing a good job. I mean, give Oscar this kind of money, give Eddie this kind of money.
“So it’s not a question of a good job, the question is can they make matches having a limited budget that is limited by the financial viability of the fight, not what somebody from the outside is pouring into it. That’s doing a big, good job — making it work for them, for the public, for the fighters without the fighters outside help putting in all this money without any way to get it back.”
On Shakur splitting with Zuffa before one fight together
“Once they realized there was no money coming from the Saudis to fund a $15M fight deal, then what do you do? If you can get out of that contract, you get out of it. Did they get out, did it cost them any money to get out? I don’t know. But, again, to pay Shakur $15M…financially it’s not viable. So, it is what it is. And once the Saudis really left the message that they got the word from The Boss that this unlimited tap is going to stop, it was bound to happen.”
On the Shakur vs Devin fight falling apart
“The fight fell apart, but essentially it fell apart is because DAZN had promised [Devin] Haney a certain amount of money, Zuffa had promised Shakur a certain amount of money, and it wasn’t a match because that money didn’t exist in the fight that they would have…Would the fight have justified the money being put up? Because otherwise nobody wants to break their ass doing a fight, promoting a fight, and ending up facing an absolute possibility that you’re going to lose money.”
On his prediction for the business once the Saudi money evaporates
“Looking at the past when this happened, and in boxing it happens all the time, the market then settles and fighters fight for what’s available and we get some very good fights that still go on and life continues. But how it’s going to come out after this, where we had so much money being put into the sport not existing, how is the sport going to continue? It’s going to continue, but how is it going to continue, I don’t know.
“Remember, [Al] Haymon came in when he had that deal with the mutual fund with hundreds of millions of dollars, and all he accomplished was pissing it away. So, again, I have the experience and I’ve been around enough not to say definitively what’s going to happen because I don’t know like nobody else does. I have an idea but again, it’s just an idea and not worth talking about. All I know is that the sport will continue, there will be great fights being made. How everybody will be compensated remains to be seen but that’s in the future.“
On Ryan Garcia saying he’s going to fight Floyd Mayweather for the WBC title
“Will people be interested in it? I don’t know. I know Floyd [Mayweather] needs the money ‘cause he’s pissed away tons of the money that he made. I mean, he blames Haymon for that, he blames this for that, but ultimately I blame him for pissing it away. Will Garcia vs Mayweather generate money? Will it generate enough money to satisfy these guys? I don’t know. I think there will be limited interest in a fight where you have a young guy at the peak of his boxing prowess fighting an old man, which Mayweather has now become.”
On the Eddie Hearn vs Dana White beef over promoting Fury vs AJ, and Hearn insisting White can’t be involved
“Well, that’s right. Eddie [Hearn] is correct. Frank [Warren] and I have a contract with [Tyson] FuryEddie has a contract with [Anthony] Joshua. Dana has a contract with nobody. But if Dana wanted to be involved with the fight, be my guest. I mean, the money is the money. The Saudis are putting up the bulk of the money in that fight. They’ll do a good gate, get back some of it. But again, what do I care? What should anybody care?”
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