Robert Garcia has revealed Anthony Joshua has assembled a brand new workforce to make sure he's in the best mindset to beat Oleksandr Usyk of their rematch this summer season.
Joshua is about to tackle Usyk in Saudi Arabia this August after dropping his IBF, WBO and WBA heavyweight titles to the undefeated Ukrainian final September.
The Briton has made large modifications to his camp forward of their second bout, with long-time coach Rob McCracken now not a part of the image with Angel Fernandez stepping up this yr.
Garcia, who has labored with the likes of Marcos Maidana, Nonito Donaire and youthful brother Mikey Garcia, has additionally joined the workforce, revealing there was a variety of new additions to ‘assist the best way Joshua is considering’.
Garcia mentioned YouTube present Robert Garcia Unfiltered: ‘Loads of fighters, they arrive off a loss – like in all probability after the Andy Ruiz Jr combat – they arrive off a loss considering that was by no means going to occur.
‘So it affected him, it affected him mentally.
‘He in all probability thought, ‘Perhaps that’s the top of my profession, perhaps that’s it,’ so he had a number of issues happening in his thoughts.
‘I believe that’s one of the crucial essential issues that affected Anthony and that’s what I’m right here to vary – me and Angel and different assist that he’s bought.
‘He’s created a workforce of not solely me and Angel teaming up, getting ready the sport plan and coaching him with the best technique or the best sparring companions to exit and carry out.
‘He employed different folks which are additionally very good.
‘Not boxing trainers, simply completely different folks that would assist with the best way he’s considering.
‘Any person that’s with him, considering constructive with him. All people round him is constructive.
‘All people round him is pushing him to his limits, to what he was doing earlier than he misplaced his first combat.
‘He must know and imagine that he’s nonetheless pretty much as good, or he’s going be even higher than he was earlier than he turned champion for the primary time, when he went on the market and was knocking everyone out.’
Garcia elaborated on how the defeat to Usyk – just like the one to Andy Ruiz Jr in 2019 – affected Joshua ‘mentally’, insisting it's a drawback they're assured of addressing.
‘It will get to the pinnacle. It’s one thing that now we have to vary,’ Garcia continued.
‘As a result of he already did it. He already received the gold medal in opposition to the perfect fighters on the planet.
‘After which as a professional he additionally did beat the perfect to turn out to be heavyweight champion of the world.
‘We didn’t see that earlier than he misplaced. After he misplaced is once we’ve seen that there’s extra of a psychological drawback so we’re engaged on that.
‘We now have to push him in coaching, in sparring. The work goes be accomplished, he simply has to go on the market and carry out.’
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