Caleb Plant versus Caleb Truax Premier Boxing Champions Boxing Card Preview
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Los Angeles, CA (January 29th, 2021)– Premier Boxing champions, in its 2021 opening event on USA Fox, will present an eight-bout professional boxing card on Saturday, January 30, 2021, at Shrine Auditorium and Exposition Center in Los Angeles, California, featuring Caleb Plant in the main event, defending his International Boxing Federation World Super Middleweight title against a former IBF World Super middleweight champion, challenger Caleb Truax, who will attempt to regain his title. Former World Boxing Council World Super Middleweight champion 23-0 David Benavidez, who lost his title at the scales in August 2020 by weighing in 170 ¾ pounds, above the 168 pounds super middleweight limit, hopes to fight the winner.
Plant, 20-0, 12 knockouts, age 28, Las Vegas, Nevada, has been inactive nearly a year, since stopping Vincent Feigenbutz in the tenth round in February 2020 in Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. If successful with Truax, Plant will be his third titular defense. Truax, 31-4-2 with 19 knockouts, Saint Michael, Minnesota, age 37, has been inactive for a year, since winning a majority ten round decision over David Basajjamivule at the Convention Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Truax has been stopped by Daniel Jacobs and Andre Dirrell, won and lost title bouts with James DeGale, fought to a no-contest with Peter Quillin, and fought to a ten-round draw with 42 bout veteran Ossie Duran in Duran’s final bout.
Plant is favored to win by stoppage in rounds seven through ten. Plant has a superior chin, and Truax does not figure to regain his title, in what may prove to be his final major bout. The undercard to the main event, a featured ten round heavyweight bout between 11-0 Brooklyn prospect Michael Polite Coffie, and 17-0 Philadelphia prospect Darmani Rock, could end in an explosive knockout either way, or it could go the ten round distance in a war of heavyweight bombs, with both fighters tiring down the stretch.
In a welterweight bout, Former International Boxing Federation World Lightweight champion Rances Barthelemy, 27-1-1 with 14 knockouts, Las Vegas, Nevada, will fight former Filipino Lightweight champion and OPBF Super Lightweight champion Ali Rivera, 21-4 with 18 knockouts, Santa Rosa City, Philippines. Rivera was knocked out in the first round by Malik Hawkins in Las Vegas in September 2019, and thus is likely to be exposed and stopped by Barthelemy within four to eight rounds. Barthelemy, like many other fighters suffering from periods of inactivity during the pandemic, would like to get some rounds in.
In a middleweight bout, 11-0 Joey Spencer of Union City, California, a former U.S. Junior Under 17 champion at 152 and 155 pounds, is favored to win by stoppage in five rounds or less over 14-3-1 Isiah Seldon of Somers, Point, New Jersey. Seldon, son of former WBA World Heavyweight champion Bruce Seldon, has only beaten one fighter with a winning record in his career. The fighter with the winning record Seldon beat, Ernesto Berrospe of Mexico, lost 11 of his last 12 bouts, including to Seldon.
In another middleweight bout, 10-1 Brandyn Lynch of Los Angeles, California, is favored to win by eight-round decision over durable veteran Mark Anthony Hernandez of Fresno, California. 4-0 lightweight prospect Fernando Angel Molina of Guadalajara, Mexico, is favored to win by six-round decision over 4-5 James De Herrera of College Station, Texas.
Marshall Kauffman promotions light heavyweight Atif Oberlton of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is favored to win his professional debut by four-round decision over 4-2 Nathan Davis Sharp of Merced, California. Oberlton had an amateur record of 38-10.
Lightweight Daniel Gerardo Garcia of Denver, Colorado, will debut in a four-rounder against Jose Delgado, age 22, also making his pro debut, of Santa Rosa, California. No information was known at press time about Delgado, so Garcia, age 19, who had 17 amateur bouts and went 11-6, is favored to win by four-round decision.
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