Resendiz plans to ‘disarm’ in Saturday’s battle

Jose Armando Resendiz says he knows what to do for him to “disarm” the interim WBA Super Middleweight Champion Caleb ‘Sweethands’ offense and defeat him on Saturday, May 31, at their 12-round main event at the Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas.

Resendiz (15-2, 11 COs) will have to take a page from the playbook of David Banavidez to defeat him (23-2, 14 COs), because he has to put a lot of pressure on him. It will also help to have a strong inside game, as it will probably be Plant’s plan B if it starts to take punishment in the middle ring.

Caleb plant’s developing fighting style

Caleb, 32, now holds himself as an inner Brawler after beating Trevor McCumby in the ninth round last September. McCumby dropped the plant in fourth place, and it seemed like he was on his way to a knockout victory. Plant took the battle inward and hit McCumby.

“Plant is an incredible fighter, one of the elite at 168, but it motivates me even more. It makes me so happy, because if you beat someone like that, it makes the victory even bigger,” Jose Armando Resendiz told the mediaDiscuss his fight against Caleb Plant this Saturday night in Las Vegas.

Assessment of the plant’s elite status

Resendiz is too complimentary for the plant. He is not an ‘incredible fighter’, and certainly not an elite at Super Mid -Light. His record is 2-2 in his last four fights, and it is not a resume at the elite level. If plant was elite, in his last four fights with a record of 4-0, he would come in this battle, and he didn’t have to take a setup.

“You can talk tough outside the ring, but as soon as you step into the ropes, it’s a very different deal,” Resendiz says, responding to the fact that plant said he was “going to walk on him”. “I don’t care what people say about me, because in the end I am going to prove myself as a fighter in the ropes. In the end, that’s all that’s important to me. ‘

Plant’s victory over 39-year-old Anthony Dirrell and the contender for the lower level, Trevor McCumby, went to his head and made him believe he had the ability to walk through someone in the Super Middleweight division. He is not such a kind of talent and has never been. Plant is a boxer with a chin problem and a weak guest tank. The match done by the management of the plant indicates that they are aware of its defects.

So, they will protect him as much as possible, hoping to win him long enough to be blessed by Canelo Alvarez for a re -broadcast. Therefore, Jermall Charlo is set up as the next opponent of the plant rather than one of the young contenders who would be difficult for him.

Resendiz’s plan to beat plant

“I believe in myself. I believe in the work I have done, and I can not only do the same, but I can do more. In the end, I know that I can disarm the plant in the way it can be disarmed. We’re going to be ready for everything that comes my way during the fight, ‘Resendiz said.

The only way to defeat the plant is by pushing it, throwing a lot of power and not letting him rest. ‘Sweethands’ plant has always had a weak engine, and he struggled when he put six hard rounds under the gun in the first half of his fights.

Resendiz fights outside its normal weight class of middleweight and does not have the same technical ability as Caleb. However, he is six years younger and has many less miles on him. He is also more active than planting, which has delayed his career since he picked up a great payday of $ 10 million, Canelo Alvarez, four years ago in 2021.

Plant has the same motivation for a second payday against Canelo as Edgar Berlanga. So he is now fighting for the wrong reasons. He is now hungry. You can call it gold fever.