Anthony Joshua’s former coach exposed he was so frustrated with the training camp for the Oleksandr Usyk rematch that he questioned to leave.
AJ misplaced back-to-back again fights with the heavyweight champion, the to start with at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and the next out in Saudi Arabia.
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Robert Garcia changed Joshua’s lengthy-time coach, Rob McCracken, following the first defeat.
Garcia, even though, mentioned issues emerged all through the combat camp top up to that rematch that manufactured him want to depart.
He told iD Boxing: “I know that the get the job done with me and Angel Fernandez wasn’t poor, but it honestly could have been greater.
“Nobody mentions everything that went on in training camp, and I’m not likely to mention it possibly. But we all know the way the training camp went.
“It was irritating for me, there was so lots of new men and women in camp. The 1st week that I was there, I advised his administration group to fly me home.
“Because there had been folks there who, I believe, were being not heading to help out.”
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Garcia will not be in AJ’s corner for his forthcoming fight with Jermaine Franklin on April 1, with Derrick James his new head coach for a camp based at James’ gym in Texas.
His former mentor backed him to get back on keep track of in that clash and transfer on to even larger names again.
Garcia explained: “Now I feel he’s in a excellent area, in a fantastic instruction camp and I’m sure he’ll be in wonderful shape.
“He’s going to get a fantastic, stable get so his upcoming fight can be against a big identify.”
There has been discuss of a upcoming struggle with Deontay Wilder and a Fight of Britain clash with Tyson Fury.
