Anthony Joshua’s former coach demanded to be flown house from camp

The former coach of Anthony Joshua has revealed how he informed the British fighter’s administration workforce to fly him house early from a coaching camp earlier than the 36-year-old’s second loss to Oleksandr Usyk.

Former IBF junior light-weight champion Garcia labored with Joshua forward of his rematch with the Ukrainian final 12 months. But after the Watford-born star misplaced once more, the 2 parted methods.

Since then, each males have exchanged some less-than-positive phrases about one another within the combat’s aftermath.

Joshua just lately bigged up his new coach Derrick James and took the chance to check him to Garcia, claiming that the latter made him really feel like he wasn’t being taught something new.

But 48-year-old Garcia, who’s at the moment in Las Vegas forward of this Saturday’s showdown between Errol Spence and Terence Crawford, has lifted the lid on what he thought-about to be a poor atmosphere inside Joshua’s camp, main as much as the headline contest with Uysk in Saudi Arabia on August 20, 2022.

Speaking about his time with Joshua to Boxing News, Garcia stated: “When I first got to camp I wasn’t very happy with what are saw going on in his training camp. And I told his team ‘fly me home. I don’t want to be part of this. I’m not going to be part of this. You guys have got to fly me home.’

“They satisfied me to remain. So if that was the case I believe Anthony ought to have stated ‘let hm go’ as a result of I do not wish to work with him. I do not really feel snug with him.”

When the reporter asked Garcia if his feelings about leaving the camp were put back to Joshua by his management team, he said: “That’s in all probability one thing the administration workforce by no means even introduced as much as Anthony. Because if they might have, he would have stated ‘I do not really feel snug with Rob, let him go.’

“Honestly, I did tell these guys ‘send me home’. I don’t want to stay here because I know it’s not going to work out with the way camp was going with other people that were involved. I don’t need to say any names. You know, I told them ‘Fly me home. I don’t want to stay here. It’s not going to work.'”

Joshua will return to ring with out Garcia when he faces Dillian Whyte at The O2 in London on Saturday, August 12. The two fighters beforehand met in 2015, with Joshua profitable through technical knock-out within the seventh spherical.