Anthony Joshua‘s coach Robert Garcia has told him the change he must make if they are to continue working together following his rematch defeat to Oleksandr Usyk. The British boxing hero suffered a second consecutive loss to the undefeated Ukrainian at the Jeddah Superdome in Saudi Arabia on August 20.
Joshua, 32, moved his training camp to Loughborough University after parting ways with longtime trainer Rob McCracken. And coach Garcia, who worked alongside Angel Fernandes as part of Joshua’s corner for his rematch against Usyk, has said he must leave the UK to train with him in the US if they are to continue working together. JUST IN: Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk: Possible date and location revealed The 47-year-old told IZQUIERDAZO: “I told Anthony and all his team that, for me, the best way to keep working together is if Anthony comes to train in my gym in California eight weeks before a fight. “From six to eight weeks, that’s all I need for a good camp. “I told Anthony, ‘I need you to be around more fighters, more champions.
I want you to have more fighters for competition, even if they are from the same gym, but you have to compete.’ “I told him, ‘You have to want to be better than them, and they will want to be better than you.
It will work for all of you.’ “That is what is missing in his gym, the fighters to be competing against each other, where they don’t want the other fighter to do more than you. “He needs a place with other world champions around. “Anthony has always been alone in his camps, he didn’t have other fighters to train with. “He needs to be in a cheerful environment, to interact with other fighters, other sparring partners. “I think that that would help him a lot. “I am a boxing man, and I told them