McCumby predicts knockout of “Primadonna” plant

Trevor McCumby says Caleb Plant is a “primadonna” and a “crybaby” with his “errant” narrative about how he called him out for their fight Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. McCumby points out that Plant chose him out of three or four fighters to fight. He wanted him.

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McCumby (28-0, 21 KOs) feels former IBF super middleweight champion Plant (22-2, 13 KOs) is a loose player, and he thinks he’ll hold up against him when the going gets tough in their 12-round clash for the WBA interim 168-lb title.

McCumby’s comments are likely based on how Plant began talking to Canelo in the later rounds of their November 2021 fight. It sounded like Plant was trying to befriend him so he would take it easy and show mercy. Canelo didn’t go for it and knocked out Plant in the 11th round.

Hopefully Plant doesn’t perform during the cutoff at the weigh-in because it would be bad if he or McCumby suffered a cut before their fight on Saturday night. Plant has been getting pretty hot lately, it sounds like he wants to get into a fist fight with several people.

McCumby thinks that Plant has anger issues, and he suspects that the millions he made from his fight against Canelo Alvarez gave him a skewed view of his talent.

14-year pro McCumby is finally getting an opportunity for an important fight, and he plans to take full advantage of it by knocking Plant out in the eighth or ninth rounds.

“I wanted an opportunity my whole career. It didn’t happen in the first half of my career. Now I get it,” Trevor McCumby told the mediatalks about finally getting an important fight in his 14th year as a pro.

“I called out three or four other names in that shout out video. So, I think Caleb is a little delusional. He creates a narrative in his head that I am a bad guy and that I called him out. I called him out, but you chose to fight me. I am not in that position. He knows it.

“He’s going to keep crying to fight me. He is the one who chose me. He had four other names. He chose me. So, I don’t know,” McCumby said of Plant.

Oddly, Plant makes a big deal out of fighting him. He should just tell the media he chose McCumby because no one would hold it against him. It’s not like Plant fights that often anymore. He stopped fighting a lot after he got the Canelo fight.

Some people believe that the $10 million Plant got for the Canelo fight took away his ambition, and he doesn’t have the hunger he had before he got rich.

“Eight or nine,” McCumby said of when he would stop Plant. “He is a crybaby. He is a prima donna. That’s why I trained so hard in this camp. He’s going to see what I come up with on Saturday,” McCumby said when asked if he thought Plant was looking at him.

If McCumby knocks out Plant, that might be it for him, as he’ll have to give up on his level dream of getting a rematch against Canelo. Assuming Plant takes another year and a half off after the loss, he wouldn’t have enough left after he returns in 2026.

“I keep saying I’m going to break his will. I come for his heart. I want him to feel the way he felt against Canelo. “I’m going to lie down because I’m tired, and it’s too hard.” Also with David (Benavidez),” McCumby said of Plant.

Plant did seem to give up physically and mentally in both of those fights. He was great for six laps though, but man, he had nothing left after the midway point.

“I’m going to use my size, my physicality and let him know who’s boss,” McCumby said of his plans to defeat Plant.

We saw in Plant’s fights against Canelo, David Benavidez and Jose Uzcategui that he burns out after six rounds. Plant is what you would 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 quickly falls apart.