Trevor McCumby says Caleb Plant is a “primadonna” and a “crybaby” with his “delusional” narrative about how he called him out for their fight on Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. McCumby points out that Plant chose him to fight out of three or four fighters. He wanted him.
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McCumby (28-0, 21 KOs) feels the former IBF super middleweight champion Plant (22-2, 13 KOs) is a quitter, and he thinks he’ll quit against him when the going gets tough in their 12-round clash for the WBA interim 168-lb title.
McCumby’s quitting comment is likely based on how Plant started conversing with Canelo in the later rounds of their fight in November 2021. It sounded like Plant was trying to make friends with him so he would take it easy on him and show mercy. Canelo didn’t go for it and knocked Plant out in the 11th round.
Hopefully, Plant doesn’t act out during the face-off at the weigh-in because it would be bad if he or McCumby suffered a cut ahead of their fight on Saturday night. Plant has been getting kind of uppity lately, sounding like he wants to get in a fistfight with various people.
McCumby thinks that Plant has anger issues, and he suspects that the millions that he made from his fight against Canelo Alvarez gave him a warped view of his talent.
The 14-year pro McCumby is finally getting an opportunity for an important fight, and he plans on taking full advantage of it by knocking out Plant in the eighth or ninth rounds.
“I have wanted an opportunity my whole career. It didn’t happen in the first half of my career. Now I’m getting it,” said Trevor McCumby to the media, talking about finally getting an important fight in his 14th year as a pro.
“I called out three or four other names in that call-out video. So, I think Caleb is a little delusional. He’s creating a narrative in his head that I’m a bad guy and that I called him out. I called him out, but you chose to fight me. I’m not in that position. He knows that.
“He’s going to keep crying about fighting me. He’s the one that chose me. He had four other names. He chose me. So, I don’t know,” said McCumby about Plant.
Weirdly, Plant is making a big deal of fighting him. He should just tell the media that he chose McCumby because no one would hold it against him. It’s not like Plant is fighting all that often anymore. He stopped fighting a lot after getting the Canelo fight.
Some people believe the $10 million that Plant got for the Canelo fight took away his ambition, and he lacks the hunger he had before he got rich.
“Eight or nine,” said McCumby about when he’s going to stop Plant. “He’s a crybaby. He’s a primadonna. That’s why I trained so hard in this camp. He’s going to see what I’m coming with on Saturday,” said McCumby when asked if he thinks Plant is overlooking him.
If McCumby knocks out Plant, that might be it for him because he would have to give up on his shallow dream of getting a rematch against Canelo. Assuming that Plant takes another year and a a half off after the loss, he wouldn’t have enough left after returning in 2026.
“I keep saying I’m going to break his will. I’m coming for his heart. I want him to feel like he did against Canelo. ‘I’m going to lie down because I’m tired, and this is too hard.’ Also, with David [Benavidez],” said McCumby about Plant.
It did look like Plant physically and mentally quit in both of those fights. He was great for six rounds, though, but man, he had nothing left after the midpoint.
“I’m going to use my size, my physicality, and let him know who’s boss,” said McCumby about his plans to defeat Plant.
We saw in Plant’s fights against Canelo, David Benavidez, and Jose Uzcategui that he gasses out after six rounds. Plant is what you’d call a six-round fighter.
He looks like gold for six rounds, but he’s just an average Joe in the second half of his fights. It’s like taking Superman and putting a bunch of kryptonite in front of him. Plant has nothing left after six rounds and falls apart quickly.
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