March 25 will see two highly skilled super middleweight champions David Benavidez and Caleb Plant going head to head in a title eliminator clash at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The duo was speculated to meet earlier but the fight could not reach fruition. But finally following an intense back-and-forth on social media they decided to settle it in the ring and prove themselves worthy to meet the undisputed super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez in the coming future.

Benavidez, who is considered a threat to Alvarez’s throne had already held the WBC super-middleweight title twice and demanded a title shot against Alvarez for quiet a while but could not get it as he hails from Mexico. So his eyes would be on win over Plant which would make him the mandatory challenger. But before going that far, he would like to seek his grudge match against Plant whom he accused of flipping the. narrative.

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Ahead of the highly anticipated showdown, he talked to ES News and explained where this bad blood with ‘Sweet Hands’ coming from.

What did David Benavidez reveal about his rivalry with Plant?

Benavidez, who used to share a gym with Plant earlier clarified that he was never on good terms with Plant because of the latter’s nature. According to him, he never liked Plant.

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“He is just f**king p****y. He said some s**t about my brother, talking some type of s**t. And then we go to confront him and then he stands behind his trainer and he sucker punches my brother and then his trainer gets involved in this f**King brawl and then my brother starts beating his trainer. If we really wanted to get his a**, we could have got him but you know Caleb Plant loves flipping narrative”, Benavidez said.

Moreover, he promised that he is working very hard to put forth hell of a performance and delight his fans. No doubt the fight would be very competitive. The duo would produce a spectacular slugfest as they know each other for very longtime.

Both have different technique and are coming out of an exciting win. Benavidez TKO’d former IBF champ David Lemieux in May last year and Plant knocked out former champ Anthony Dirrell.

Now eyes would be on how they would fare  against each other.

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