In this video interview with trainer Stephen ‘Breadman’ Edwards he reveals that he’s officially split with Caleb Plant over the summer, following Plant’s loss to Armando Resendiz. Unlike most of these
situations where the fighters seemingly blame their losses on their trainers, resulting in them being let go, Edwards suggests here that he was the one to walk away from the professional relationship.
Edwards would be clear that he harbors no ill feelings towards Plant and while he didn’t want to get into many details as to why he decided to walk away, but he does clearly suggest that he wasn’t happy with how their last training camp transpired.
“I’m not going to be training Caleb, so I really don’t know (what’s next for him). I’ve been hearing about his future fights but I really don’t know what’s going on but I’m not going to be training Caleb anymore,” Edwards said.
“I don’t really know what direction he want to go in but I just let him know about three or four weeks after the fight that I would be stepping away from training him. I never really talked about it but I’m hearing the Charlo fight and different fights that people keep asking me, but it’s just something I let him know — this was way back in June.
“I want to say I’ve got love for Caleb so it’s not a thing of like it’s a confrontational relationship or nothing like that, he don’t owe me no money or nothing like that…Sometimes relationships just run their course and I can just put it like that. I got respect for him so I wasn’t going to put him in a situation where he have a fight and then I tell him I’m not going to train him.
“I wouldn’t do that to him, so three to four weeks after that (Resendiz) fight, towards the end June, I think he fought May 31st, sometimes towards the end of June I let him know I wished him luck and thanked him for the opportunity but I let him know that I wasn’t going to be coming back.
“For this camp right here it was just different, that’s all I can say. It’s nothing bad, I’m not mad at him, I’m not disappointed at him, if anything I’m just a little confused as to why the camp didn’t go the way it normally would go, but it’s life and we’ll move on.”
