Caleb Plant: ‘If I ask someone to leave me alone, it’s not a request, it’s a demand’, P2
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BY TRIS DIXON
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May 26, 2025
Source: Boxing Scene
MAKING BREAD
Both Plant and his trainer, Stephen “Breadman” Edwards, are men who prefer to let their actions speak for themselves. Their union, which started after Plant lost to Canelo Alvarez in November 2021, and has seen them work out of the popular DLX Boxing Gym in Las Vegas, where Plant now lives, on Saturday, May 31, they will step back into battle again, in the Michelob Arena, where Plant will face Jose Armando Resendiz.
Edwards calls Plant “a man of principle” and Plant said after Canelo, “a role needed to be filled” with Edwards working alongside Plant’s pops, Richie.
“Bread is someone that I've always admired from afar, and we’ve known each other for some time,” Plant says. “I’ve picked his brain and asked him about boxing questions where I wanted to see where his head was at and things I wanted to know. And I always liked his answers. I’ve always been a big fan of [Edwards-trained] Julian Williams. I feel like he’s always been a super-crafty fighter and always had a huge bag of tricks and also knew that he was a young trainer, or a younger trainer; someone who would probably want to work, who was eager and wanted to prove themselves. You know, sometimes older trainers have not much left in the tank, and they’re just kind of like… they don’t really care no more.
“But Bread, he’s the opposite of that. He cares, he wants to win, and he’ll go to the end of the earth to get the job done. And I’m the same type of way.”
The chemistry was there from the start, and it was their ability to focus on the finer details, small adjustments and additions, that have made him a more complete fighter.
Asked for details, Plant adds: “One, obviously the inside work, I feel like I showed that in my last fight [stopping Trevor McCumby], how much that has developed. And a lot of that has to do with Bread and a lot of that has to do with my dad too, because, between fights, I travel to Philly [where Edwards his from] here and there, and he’ll come to Vegas here and there. But for the most part, it’s been me and my dad in the gym grinding every day.
“And, Bread will pass him the notes and my dad will follow those notes, but he’s also adding his own twist to it. And my dad has a certain way that he likes to go about things and him [Bread] and my dad have great chemistry as well. That’s been a blessing, because sometimes when two trainers aren’t on the same page and they don’t have good chemistry, old heads get to arguing and not seeing eye to eye. Him and my dad are always reiterating the same things. And it’s just good chemistry.”
Edwards also had Plant sparring more in the downtime between fights, and that is no hardship for the Nashville hardman.
“I love sparring,” Plant smiles without hesitation. “Sparring is the best part. You put all the work in and you go to all the physical recovery and massage therapy and eating right and sleeping right and putting your best foot forward on everything so you can spar good. And then you spar good so you can fight good. So I really enjoy sparring. And he’s upped the sparring a lot on a day-to-day basis for me year-round. So I feel like that’s helped me.
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