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A massive super middleweight bout is now officially set for early 2023 as Caleb Plant and David Benavidez are set to clash. In November, Plant had confirmed reports on his Twitter that he had signed the contract to make the fight happen. The fight was officially announced on Wednesday by Premier Boxing Champions.

The fight will take place March 25 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and will air on Showtime pay-per-view. It is a clash of former world champions with both looking to take a step that could possibly lead them directly into another opportunity at world championship gold, with Benavidez’s interim WBC title.

Plant (22-1, 13 KO) is coming off a thunderous Knockout of the Year contender in an October fight with Anthony Dirrell. That win helped Plant rebound from his first career loss, a November 2021 TKO loss to Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, a loss which also ended Plant’s nearly three-year run as IBF super middleweight champion.

Benavidez (26-0, 23 KO) is a two-time former WBC super middleweight champion. The only setbacks in his career have come by his own missteps. He lost his WBC title the first time after failing a drug test for cocaine. After winning back the title, he lost the belt ahead of his next fight, failing to make weight ahead of his fight with Roamer Alexis Angulo.

Without a title, top fighters in the division have been able avoid stepping in the ring with Benavidez. The fight with Plant gives Benavidez a big-name opponent and an opportunity to all but force his way into a fight with the likes of undisputed super middleweight champion Alvarez or other top names and work his way back toward a world title.

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Many of the elements of the most compelling fights will be present on Saturday night when David Benavidez and Caleb Plant clash in a Showtime pay-per-view main event. The style matchup promises fun action, the two men have grown an increasingly strong dislike for each other and the opponent poses several interesting questions for both men.

Benavidez is facing by far the best opponent of his career in Plant, a slick boxer with higher-level skills than any of Benavidez’s previous foes. Benavidez will be forced to see if his pressure-first style can get to — and break down — a fighter who has made his living by not often being there to be hit.

To date, Benavidez has been perfect in his career, with 26 wins in 26 trips to the ring, 23 of those coming by knockout. His worst opponent has been himself, twice losing world titles because of his own missteps. First, Benavidez was stripped of the WBC super middleweight championship in 2018 after testing positive for cocaine. After regaining the title, he was stripped again after failing to make weight for his August 2020 fight with Roamer Alexis Angulo.

He now holds the WBC interim super middleweight title, which he will put on the line on Saturday.

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