Caleb Plant: ‘If I ask someone to leave me alone, it’s not a request, it’s a demand’
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BY TRIS DIXON
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May 26, 2025
Source: Boxing Scene
Caleb Plant is a man minding his own business and staying in his lane.
But, often, trouble has gravitated toward the Nashville-born super middleweight, the everyman superstar who has become a cult hero for his never-back-down mentality, no matter the odds.
In July 2023, before Terence Crawford and Errol Spence fought in Las Vegas, Plant cracked Jermall Charlo with an open hand as they argued in the bowels of the T-Mobile Arena when Charlo put his hand in Plant’s face.
Nearly a year on, Edgar Berlanga got in his face – back in Vegas – and they shared an angry exchange, and when Gervonta Davis and Frank Martin fought, Plant was somehow dragged into an altercation with Ryan Garcia and his henchmen in the MGM Grand.
Plant did not give an inch on any occasion.
Even before that, there was a pre-fight rumble with Canelo Alvarez and genuine bad blood with Anthony Dirrell.
Now Plant’s brand has been built through the carnage, though he’d rather an online search that took the form ‘Caleb Plant – add Garcia/Berlanga/Charlo/Canelo/Dirrell altercation’ yield no results.
It is not how he wanted it to be.
“I try to handle my business inside the ring and I like to be left alone outside the ring,” Plant tells BoxingScene. “So as long as people leave me alone, I’ll leave them alone, you know.”
It sounds simple, yet it has been too hard for many to compute. They have veered into his lane, discussed his business and even his family, but in doing so Plant’s inability to cower submissively has made him a hero to those who might have shrunk in similar circumstances.
Of course, he won’t speak on what others might or might not do if faced with similar situations. Fight or flight is more reflex than flex. Until the circumstances face you, you won’t know what is in you. Like a fight.
“I feel like that’s an individual question for each individual, but, as far as I’m concerned, you know, I was raised a certain way by my grandfather and my father and they stand on certain principles as far as what they believe and how they believe they should be treated,” Plant adds. “And being bullied or harassed is not high on our list of things that we like. And so, if I ask somebody to leave me alone, it’s not really a request, you know what I’m saying? It’s a demand.”
The building of the brand might have indirectly been assisted, but it was never the aim, and it’s why Plant has not looked for trouble.
“I’ve never really thought too much about it or thought of it like that because, obviously in those moments I’m not looking to build my brand,” the 32-year-old continues. “I’m looking to get my point across when I can’t seem to get it across verbally. But yeah, I guess everybody out there likes to believe that they would stand their ground and take up for themselves, defend themselves if somebody is bullying them, harassing them or their family… their kids, their wife, whatever it may be. So yeah, maybe people like to see themselves in me through scenarios like that, perhaps.”
The easy going demeanour that Plant has in conversation means you can tell he’s not drawn to being boxing’s enforcer. He’s too modest and too unassuming, and you can see him cringe when he’s asked the kind of question you know, given everything he’s been through, he has little interest in.
Has he noticed the uptick in his popularity on social media from the viral moments in which he’s been involved?
“I’d like to think it’s from more of what I’ve done in the ring,” he says, clearly trying to keep the talk to boxing. “But I’m sure some of it has to do with me standing my ground in other scenarios. But I haven’t really given that a whole lot of thought, honestly.”
I don’t doubt that for a minute.
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