You have to take a realistic assessment of your skills and boxing ability. Plant is a decent fighter. Hes B- or C+level. Hes fast and somewhat skilled, but that's it. Hes not good enough to carve out a boxing legacy that's meaningful. So if you're not fighting for legacy what's their to fight for? Obviously money. He will probably clear $5 million AFTER taxes and paying his team. He will never see that type of money again in boxing. Bruh, just retire. Take your millions and put it in an S&P 500 index fund and never have to work again a day in your life.
Told ya so. Don't think he needs to retire though. He could easily confound and beat a few other plodders he's accustomed to beating and make some cash there. This is prize fighting after all, and it's not like he takes that much punishments in his fights.
Most better know boxers make the most money later in their careers, even more so if they once were in a significant fight. Pretty sure he gets paid better now, despite losing his belt, after fighting Canelo and doing a decent job despite his limitations. Retiring now wouldn't be the best thing for his post boxing life.
lol why he should retire? Nobody expected him to beat Clenelo. He was a +900 underdog or so on the betting market. He could easily beat 95% of the weak 168 division. He can make some money. You must be ******ed and stupid to retire at this point. Pretty sure you wouldn't retire if you're PLant. You're just using your keyboard warrior skills to write such BS. Log off and kick rocks.
See the point and for the record I predicted a Canelo KO. I said dont be surprised if Caleb frustrates Canelo, looks fast and makes it more tricky than a simple blowout fight. I wasnt that far off. And yea as far as retiring its about how much money could you reasonably make.
If I was Plant I'd take my 5 to 10 million and never take another punch to the head again. The sport is about two things from a fighters perspective. One is legacy. Two is making as much money as possible. That's what the boxing business is about.
He's never been that fast, just elusive. The only problems he gave to Canelo is provided him with a hard target to land on clean. But he didn't offer much in the way of dissuading him from walking him down, by opening up and letting his offense fly, because he knew he'd be countered silly with flush looping hooks like the one that KO'd him, so he fought to survive for the majority of the match. Which is similar to what I predicted, which is that he'd give him a few problems early, Canelo would figure him out walk him down and batter him to a late stoppage. Only thing I was off with was Canelo figured him out in a round instead of 3 or 4. That aside from the few loons that picked Plant to win, was basically everyone's prediction. As far as retiring goes, he could still beat guys like Berlanga, Chudinov, Lemieux, Shishkin, Hart and Abdugofurov, So while not massive money, enough to generate a few bucks and not take a massive beating.
Really disagree and I think that mentality is bad for boxing. If he want to retire by all means, but boxing needs fighters who stick around after everyone writes them off and make exciting fights. For all anyone really knows plant vs Rosado could be an atg fight. Looking at it as "pointless" only plays into the hands of sanctioning bodies and promoters who make everything about this or that belt or record instead of making exciting fights.
Why would he need to retire though? He has good health, he put up a valiant effort against the best p4p fighter in the world, and showed he was on a world class level. Sure he made his biggest payday, but theres fights with the likes of Dirrell for example, a fight he can win that would be relevant and add more benjamins to the account. Dont see why he should retire now, when hes still trying to build his own legacy. Smh
He can still make good, much better, money and has enough left for a few more years. Make that money while you can after all he is known more now than ever after the PPV
He's only lost one fight. Just because you cannot beat the absolute best doesn't mean your career is over. He can still make some good fights, and if he loves what he does then why retire?
So going by the logic of the OP ... 99% of all professional boxers who have a big payday but lose should just retire
