Two weeks ago, video resurfaced on social media of an outside-the-ring skirmish between a teenage Caleb Plant and a bigger, unnamed opponent. Plant said the fight took place in 2010 in Cleveland, Tenn., where he had traveled to train for a national tournament. Between sessions at a local gym, Plant played pickup basketball at an outdoor court where, he said, the fight started.
The footage shows a shirtless Plant dodging punches, moving in circles and intermittently hitting his opponent, hard enough to unsettle him but not with enough force to damage his own hands. After nearly a minute of chasing, swinging, and missing, Plant’s exhausted antagonist reaches into his pocket for what appears to be a knife — which is to say he conceded defeat in a fair fight.