[3] Caleb Truax began his professional boxing career on April 6, 2007, defeating Ray Walker by second-round knockout in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

[5] Caleb Truax then won three of his next four presentations, the lone blemish during that four fight span being a first-round knockout loss at the hands of multiple time world champion Anthony Dirrell; setting himself for another world championship fight, this time against British boxer James DeGale; Truax-DeGale I came off on December 9, 2017 at the Copper Box Arena in Hackney Wick, London, England and Truax became the International Boxing Federation's world Super-Middleweight champion by beating DeGale by a twelve rounds majority decision.

[2] The distinction of being a current world champion, however, did not last long for Truax, as a rematch between him and DeGale took place four months later at the Hard Rock Cafe Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada as the co-main event of a boxing program that also included Erislandy Lara's loss in a world Super-Welterweight championship bout to Jarrett Hurd on April 7, 2018 in a show televised by Showtime Championship Boxing.

For his part, Caleb Plant made his professional boxing debut on May 10, 2014, disposing of Travis Davidson in round one by knockout at Los Angeles, California[2] He won his first 17 bouts, 10 by knockout, before challenging Jose Uzcategui for the IBF's world Super-Middleweight championship on January 13, 2019 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

[2] He then retained the title twice, once by third-round knockout on July 20, 2019 against Mike Lee and then by tenth-round knockout on February 15, 2020 versus Vincent Feigenbutz; Plant's career was also affected by the COVID-19 outbreak as he was inactive since the Feigenbutz match; by the time the first bell of the fight with Truax sounded, Plant had been fightless for 11 months and a half.