UNBEATEN IBF champ Caleb Plant has hit back at boxing legend Mike Tyson after he backed Canelo Alvarez to win on November 6.
Plant, 29, takes on one of the best pound for pound boxers on the planet in Canelo next month.
All of the super middleweight belts are on the line in the unification bout, but so it Plant’s 21-0 unbeaten record.
And Iron Mike thinks Plant is going to get ‘f***ed up’ by the phenomenal Mexican.
Tyson said during a recent episode of the ‘Hotboxin with Mike Tyson’ podcast: “This guy [Canelo Alvarez] is going to “f***ing kill [Caleb Plant].”
“He’s your friend, you’re going to his funeral. He looks like some Floyd Mayweather s**t, he’s gonna get f***ed up.
“Wait till that m**********r starts hitting that body, Alvarez, those m**********r body shots, oh, he’s gonna get f***ed up.”
Plant, far from amused with Tyson’s comments, hit back listing a number of the 55-year-old’s high-profile defeats in his career.
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The IBF champ told Fight Hype.com: “[Mike Tyson] was stronger than ‘Buster’ Douglas but that didn’t help him.
“He was determined to win. He was stronger than Lennox Lewis, he was stronger than Evander Holyfield but there’s a lot more to winning a fight than just being stronger than somebody.
“There’s a lot of keys and a lot of factors that go into a fight and not all of it has to do with strength.”
Canelo thinks Plant will be an easier fight than when he fought Brit Billy Joe Saunders.
The 31-year-old, who has not lost since being beaten by Floyd Mayweather in 2013, forced Saunders to retire on his stool at the end of the eighth round in May.
Speaking on The Last Stand podcast, he said: “Yeah, same [as Saunders], but different because Billy Joe Saunders is southpaw and Caleb Plant is orthodox.
“So, it’s gonna be I think maybe a little easy for me.”
