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Trevor McCumby Expects Caleb Plant To Beat Armando Resendiz Pretty Easily, Stop Him In Later Rounds
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Keith Idec
Keith Idec
RingMagazine.com
Trevor McCumby Expects Caleb Plant To Beat Armando Resendiz Pretty Easily, Stop Him In Later Rounds
Trevor McCumby can’t see Armando Resendiz giving Caleb Plant the type of problems McCumby presented in the first four rounds of his own fight with Plant eight months ago.

From McCumby’s vantagepoint, Plant is a 20-1 favorite to win their fight Saturday night for good reason. McCumby predicted Resendiz’s defensive deficiencies will cause issues the aggressive Mexican won’t be able to overcome in a 12-round super middleweight match Amazon’s Prime Video will stream to its subscribers from Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino’s Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas.

McCumby (28-1, 21 KOs) analyzed Plant-Resendiz following a promotional event Tuesday for his next fight, a bout with top super middleweight contender Diego Pacheco (23-0, 18 KOs) on July 19 in Frisco, Texas.

“I saw [Resendiz] fight one time,” Plant told The Ring. “I saw him fight Elijah Garcia. Elijah’s another Phoenix native, you know, good kid, knocked [Resendiz] out. But I think Plant cleans him up pretty easily. I don’t think Resendiz has anywhere the defense that I have.

“You know, you seen me slip Caleb’s shots. He wasn’t able to really land the check left hook very much, because we were looking for that. I think Plant will probably stop him in the later rounds, but it could be interesting. You know, Resendiz has mostly fought at 154, so Caleb looks a lot bigger.”

McCumby dropped Plant with a left hook that landed on Plant’s shoulder in the fourth round of their September 14 fight at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The Glendale, Arizona resident could’ve been credited with two more knockdowns during the second round.

Plant stumbled into the ropes after taking McCumby’s right to his body barely 20 seconds into the second round, which could’ve counted as a knockdown because the ropes prevented Plant from falling to the canvas. McCumby connected with a jarring left several seconds before the second round ended, but referee Allen Huggins determined McCumby pushed Plant to the canvas when he went down.




McCumby mocked Plant as he walked back to his corner because he sensed the former IBF super middleweight champion was badly hurt.

“I caught him with like a leaping, Tommy Morrison left hook and wobbled his legs,” McCumby recalled. “You could watch from the video I was just taunting him a little bit because I felt like I was robbed of that knockdown. So, I just wanted to let the fans know, let everybody know, ‘Hey, he’s hurt bad.’ You know?”

An astute adjustment made by Plant and his trainers – Stephen 'Breadman' Edwards and Richie Plant, Caleb’s father – helped him regain control of their fight at the start of the fifth round. Plant picked McCumby apart for the most part thereafter and stopped his previously unbeaten opponent in the ninth round.

Huggins halted the action as Plant landed power punches on a defenseless, fatigued McCumby, who was backed into the ropes.

“I had great momentum, but Plant made a good transition and kinda changed up his game plan,” McCumby said. “Those are all things that I realize and I should’ve changed up mine in response to his changeup … There’s ebb and flow to the fight. That was my peak there [in the second round] and in a way I did let him off the hook. I maybe should’ve put more pressure on him and really made him more uncomfortable in that way and not tried to play the game of sitting on the outside, trying to box with a true boxer.”

Amazon’s four-fight stream Saturday headlined by Plant (23-2, 14 KOs), of Henderson, Nevada, and Resendiz (15-2, 11 KOs), of Rincon de Guayabitos, Mexico, is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. ET (1 a.m. GMT).

DAZN will stream Pacheco-McCumby as a co-feature from the Dallas Cowboys’ practice facility, Ford Center at The Star. San Antonio’s Jesse 'Bam' Rodriguez (21-0, 14 KOs) will defend his Ring and WBC 115-pound championships against South Africa’s Phumelele Cafu (11-0-3, 8 KOs), the WBO champ, in the 12-round main event July 19.




Keith Idec is a senior writer and columnist for The Ring. He can be reached on X @idecboxing.

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