It’s easy to get disenfranchised from time to time as a fan of combat sports. This niche of the sports world is rife with trash talk, and half the time when the fight is over, the trash talk is out the window with apologies and put-it-all-behind-us-ness. It makes it hard to wonder if the handshakes and make-up moments are sincere if you they’ve left you wondering if the we-hate-each-other moments are sincere. But there was a private moment – well, as private as things can get with dozens of people around them in the ring – between Canelo Alvarez and Caleb Plant earlier this month that seems remarkably pure and honest for boxing and combat sports in general
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Video: Watch Canelo Alvarez, Caleb Plant’s touchingly heartfelt in-ring moment – MMA Junkie