Caleb Plant vs Munguia

Personally, I still hate Plant more, Munguia as a person I have no issue with, I just think he's been lucky with the scorecards a few too many times, been the beneficiary of some top notch opportunistic matchmaking and don't rate his skillset all that highly. So I can call this one right down the middle. I have a really hard time seeing Munguia being able to hang with Plant in terms of skills. Clearly at 168, he's become a lot more circumspect and risk averse, therefore his output has dropped, so he won't be able to do the kind of number on Plant that Benavidez did, which still wasn't enough to force the stoppage. Nor do I think he has the one punch power of Canelo still, he certainly doesn't have the ring IQ to cut the ring off as well and adjust the trajectory of his punches once he is in range for them to actually land as Canelo did. In all likelihood, Plant keeps him at a distance, picks him off and wins a wide UD or scores a late stoppage.

 

I don't see Mung as some kind of world beater throughout his heavily protected carefully choreographed career he's fought a whopping 2 world champions in 43 fights, weight bullied dozens of leprechauns down at 154 and 160, on the few occasions when his handlers have thrown him in there against a a legit guy they make sure the fighter is 35 or over, is coming off a terrible beating which they're hoping or banking on has taken a lot out of them or half a dozen or close to brutal long distance wars where they've absorbed a sickening amount of punishment.

And he's already predictably been on the receiving end of numerous gifts from the judges or the right side of controversial decisions. He should've lost to leprechaun Hogan for goodness sake

And he looked bigger than Juan Ryder in there the other night although we were lead to believe he was supposed to be the smaller man.

I have nothing again at him personally he seems likeable enough guy and he's tough and fun to watch and I don't like Plant albeit it was funny when he slapped Jermallo's face into a different time zone after catching wind of the twins little switcheroo ruse after the weigh in which Serge exposed years ago

I think Plant is overrated too but at least he's fought prime beasts like Benavidez and Clenelo and put in very respectable performances. I think Plant will outbox him handily and expose the holes in his defence. There's a chance Mung might get him out of there in the back half of the fight though because Plant fades. One thing I'd bet my house on is there's no way Mung lasts the distance against Benavidez like Plant did even if he did switch to octopus mode like Plant.