Caleb Plant and Jermall Charlo are heading toward a long-awaited super middleweight grudge match in the latter half of 2025. But first, they'll share a card on May 31 in Las Vegas.
Plant is set to face Jose Armando Resendiz in a PBC on Prime Video main event, while Charlo is expected to end an 18-month layoff against Thomas LaManna in the night's chief support.
Ring Magazine was first with the news of the doubleheader.
Plant and Charlo's rivalry escalated at the weigh-in for the Terence Crawford vs. Errol Spence fight in July 2023, where Plant was filmed delivering an open-handed slap to Charlo's face. Plant claimed that Charlo disrespected his marriage and grabbed him by the beard, so he was forced to retaliate.
‼️ Slow motion replay of Caleb Plant's assault on Jermall Charlo pic.twitter.com/56DYZpMdSE
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Plant (23-2, 14 KOs) previously held the IBF super middleweight title from January 2019 to November 2021 until he lost it in a four-belt unification fight against Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, where he was stopped in the 11th round.
Plant, 32, bounced back with a brutal knockout of Anthony Dirrell afterward but then proceeded to fall short to David Benavidez via decision. In his most recent bout, Plant had to rise off the canvas to win the WBA interim belt against Trevor McCumby this past September.
Charlo (33-0, 22 KOs), a former super welterweight and middleweight world champion, has been largely inactive in recent years due to a combination of injuries and well-documented mental health struggles. In Charlo's lone bout over the past three years, he won an unimpressive 10-round unanimous decision over Jose Benavidez Jr. on the David Benavidez vs. Demetrius Andrade undercard in November 2023.
Mexico's Resendiz (15-2, 11 KOs) is best known for his upset win over the one-time unified super welterweight champion Jarrett Hurd in 2023.
LaManna (39-5-1, 18 KOs) was taken out in the opening round of his sole title challenge against WBA middleweight champion Erislandy Lara in 2021. Since then, the New Jersey native has strung together nine wins on the bounce and now heads into the biggest fight of his career.
Plant and Charlo will be significant betting favorites against Resendiz and LaManna, respectively, in what is expected to be a pair of routine victories before a major pay-per-view clash later in 2025.
