Saul "Canelo" Alvarez has made incredible strides with his English in the past year or so. He regularly does interviews in English now and only uses his interpreter on rare occasions. But his inability to understand a curse word — motherf***er — hurled at him in his second language led to a brief scuffle in which Caleb Plant suffered a cut below his right eye.
The cut appeared minor and shouldn’t have any impact on the Nov. 6 fight for the undisputed super middleweight title at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas.
Still, it was extraordinarily foolish and more than a little short-sighted for Alvarez to shove Plant, and for Plant to respond by throwing a punch at Alvarez.