Dillian Whyte is not my mate, Joshua fires back at challenger

Anthony Joshua

AJ Baffled By Ex-Trainer’s Mentality Comment Anthony Joshua has hit back at Dillian Whyte’s comments that he is going for the ‘easier option’ in boxing Jermaine Franklin rather than him. Whyte was promised a shot at AJ in the spring by Eddie Hearn after beating the American last November but that pledge has since been broken, reports express.co.uk.

According to Wallin’s promoter, Dmitry Salita, they are exploring the match-up for April. Meanwhile, Joshua has told talkSPORT that he was ‘baffled’ by comments made by his former trainer, Robert Garcia, in the aftermath of their defeat to Oleksandr Usyk.

AJ was trained by Rob McCracken for a large portion of his career, but started to make changes after his 2019 defeat to Andy Ruiz Jr.

At that time he added Angel Fernandez and Joby Clayton to make a three-man team based up in Sheffield.

The trio were successful in leading Joshua to victory in the Ruiz Jr rematch and his 2020 defence against Kubrat Pulev.

However, AJ has now described a ‘massive breakdown,’ which caused him to switch things up entirely after his first loss to Oleksandr Usyk in 2021. “I tried to do it a certain way because of past experiences,” Joshua told talkSPORT, “When I was with Rob McCracken, I felt we needed to develop “I looked at it like Rob McCracken is Sir Alex Ferguson – the gaffer. So, I brought on a technical free-kick coach and a technical penalty coach underneath – they’re gonna work together and form a strategy… “I wanted to create a structure. That didn’t work, massive breakdown in training camp, so I thought it was best to step away from that. Of his three coaches, AJ only retained Fernandez for last year’s Usyk rematch.

The pair travelled out to the U.S. to search for additional