This Saturday night’s middleweight showdown between pound-for-pound No. 1 boxer Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Caleb “Sweet Hands” Plant is set to pop off at the MGM Grand. Regardless of this weekend’s winner, the first undisputed champion in middleweight history will be crowned.

Canelo currently holds the W.B.A., W.B.O., and W.B.C., championship titles.

Alvarez finished the 2020 year beginning his quest for middleweight supremacy.

In December, Alvarez collected the W.B.A. and W.B.C. belts from Callum Smith via unanimous decision. The following February, Avni Yildirim was dominated and forced to quit as he sat on his stool after the third round.

In Alvarez’s most recent fight last May, he struggled in the earlier rounds, picked up the pace in the middle rounds, and finished Billy Joe Saunders via TKO in the eighth round. Saunders is currently facing a potentially career-ending eye injury he sustained from that night’s eighth round.

The last man in the way of Alvarez achieving his dreams is the I.B.F. champion, Caleb Plant, who is a skilled, pure boxer with good movement and a defensive counter-punching style.

Although plant is a solid fighter, I would bet my house that Canelo finishes him within seven rounds. Alvarez will be the first undisputed middleweight ever after on Nov. 6.

The style Plant uses would be ineffective against a fighter of Alvarez’s, a.k.a. Canelo’s, caliber. I think Canelo’s elite speed and power are almost impossible to beat. The only man to beat Canelo is Floyd Mayweather, a man who possessed a similar style to Plant; however, one thing is being a defensive fighter and a completely different thing is being Floyd Mayweather.

Prior to the Mayweather loss at age 23, Canelo was beating world-class opponents. Since the loss, Alvarez has continued to do the very same thing, beating the very best the world has to offer, across different weight classes.

Canelo’s hit list is a legend. If his career was split into three separate parts, chances are that he would be getting inducted into the Hall of Fame three times.

My point -about Canelo’s career, is that he’s faced the best almost his entire career. While speaking about Plant, I could not name a single opponent worth mentioning. I wouldn’t want to predict the outcome of this fight, but I think Canelo can close the show whenever he wants to.