Caleb Plant is the truth.

I agree 100%. The Eastern block countries get the state sponsored training, (and state-sponsored vitamin-S).

 

I wholly disagree with your last statement.

I grew up on 58th and Rockwell, South Chitown.
I trained with Larry Herman at the Y on 63rd and Homan, bout 12 blocks away.
Last summer I went to check it out and watched a few sparring sessions, mostly hispanics and AAs. Just one white kid, bout 11, and he reminded me so much of myself.

Anyways, these kids, 9-20 were really go at it. For 2 hours I watched about 8 different kids working, and their were lines to get to the speed/heavy bags.

My nephew is a Cross Country phenom in the Cleveland Area and is on scholarship to Malone University for CC....but he's boxing in Canton Ohio fighting at FW. He's a solid young fighter but he's more focused on running that fighting. But as an amatuer he's 22-3, mostly locally, but he has fought and won a tournament in Windsor/Detroit.

When I was a kid I had a scholarship to play baseball at AZ.
But I never missed boxing tournaments in spite of seasonal sports and I lettered on the Hubbard Basketball team, Baseball team and played Frosh Football for 2 yrs.

Only the biggest and best kids make it out of the ghettos to play football and basketball. Thats about 1/1000. That leaves 999/1000 kids sitting on their @sses.
Well, I'd say about 899/1000, cuz when I went to the gym, it was more packed than ever. :good

 

Caleb's 160, I doubt he ever took football seriously, so even in your theory he should be on a level playing field.

Also I heard he was going up to 168, is that still true?

 

Hopefully he gets stepped up a bit this year and we can see.

Someone like Caleb Truax or Fernando Guerrero should be the type of guys hes looking to get in with this year

 

Thanks for the heads up I'll be sure to keep a look out for him.

 

It's important to note that last year, he had to deal with losing his daughter. I know that fighters, like all performers, need to "check the baggage at the door", but I can't help but think that had an impact on his progress. It's tough enough to overcome as a seasoned pro; as a new one, I think a loss like that would have a bigger impact.

He's a very talented prospect though. I'm looking forward to seeing how he progresses and improves.

 

plant has the complexion connection