{"id":98663,"date":"2022-10-16T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T09:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/highlights-and-results-caleb-plant-brutally-knocked-out-anthony-dirrell\/"},"modified":"2022-10-16T09:30:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T09:30:59","slug":"highlights-and-results-caleb-plant-brutally-knocked-out-anthony-dirrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/highlights-and-results-caleb-plant-brutally-knocked-out-anthony-dirrell\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights and results: Caleb Plant brutally knocked out Anthony Dirrell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Caleb Plant put an exclamation point on a grudge match win over Anthony Dirrell, scoring a vicious one-punch knockout late in the ninth round tonight in their WBC super middleweight title eliminator.<\/p>\n

Plant (22-1, 13 KO) landed probably the best punch of his entire career, dropping Dirrell (34-3-2, 25 KO) with a left hook to the body and then one to the jaw that put Dirrell instantly down and out. The fight was immediately stopped.<\/p>\n

Plant is going to take some criticism for his antics after the fight, where he did a \u201cgravedigger\u201d motion over the downed Dirrell, Not to excuse it, but for context, the trash talking Dirrell had worn a shirt during fight week that said he would be \u201cPlant-ing flowers\u201d \u200b\u200bon his opponent. Again, not excusing it, it was definitely ill-mannered at best, just giving the context.<\/p>\n

Plant said after the fight that he plans to beat everyone else he can at 168 lbs and force his way into a rematch with Canelo Alvarez, who stopped Plant in their Nov. 2021 fight, which fully unified the super middleweight division.<\/p>\n

For the 38-year-old Dirrell, this could be the end of the line. He fought in little spurts here, wrestled and fouled a lot, and tried to get into Plant’s head, but it just never really worked. He was consistently the second-best fighter in every round, and then he got knocked out. He’s had a very good career, and he could leave now with little left to prove that can realistically be proven.<\/p>\n

Plant vs Dirrell highlights<\/h2>\n