ROBERT GARCIA DISCUSSES ANTHONY JOSHUA’S POSSIBLE SPLIT & WHAT HE NEEDS TO DO WITH A NEW TRAINER
Robert Garcia clarifies: Anthony Joshua told him he would go to USA to visit other trainers; never told him they would not work together
Robert Garcia clarifies that Anthony Joshua did speak to him about his plans to travel to the United States to visit other trainers. However, AJ never told him that they would not work together anymore.
“A couple of weeks ago, AJ called to tell me that he would come to the United States, to meet with other trainers to see how he feels training with them”, Robert Garcia told IZQUIERDAZO. “But he never told me ‘I’m not working with you anymore’, he never told me ‘I don’t like your style'”
Even if Robert Garcia doesn’t understand why AJ is changing coach again, he respects his decision.
“I don’t know why, but he has his management team, and they decided that”, Garcia said. “I respect him, but what I respect the most is that he called me beforehand to tell me that he would be in the United States visiting other trainers”.
According to Robert Garcia, there are no bad feelings towards AJ and he wishes him good luck.
“As a trainer, I don’t have to feel bad about it”, Garcia said. “He is not the first, and will not be the last that decides that. I have had fighters that come from other trainers, and I have accepted them. When that happens, I call his former trainer to tell him that his fighter is working in my gym. When a fighter loses, he looks for another trainer. And if that is the case with Anthony, I’m not angry, I agree with him”.
Robert Garcia insists that regardless of who his new coach is, AJ needs to train in the United States.
“Even if he doesn’t train with me, I would like him to come to train in the United States”, Garcia explains. “This is where he needs to have a camp, to change his routine, to leave his comfort zone, where he will get more responsibility. That’s what I recommended to them. Anthony needs a gym with other fighters, other champions, more examples, more people motivating him, that will cheer him up. I think that someone training just by himself, always in his room, working without an external motivation, that may be affecting”.
Garcia feels that it is highly possible that AJ will locate his permanent training camp in the United States, especially if he hires a busy trainer like Derrick James, who works with Errol Spence and Jermall Charlo.
“I feel that he is taking the decision about coming to the United States (to locate his training camp)”, Garcia said. “Because, if he came to talk with trainers such as Derrick James, who is very busy here in the United States, I don’t think that AJ’s plan is to take him to Europe, maybe he is planning to stay here. And I will be happy to see him here (in the United States), even if he is not working with me. AJ needs a change, a complete new change to what he is not used to”.
Robert has no regrets about what happened in the fight with Oleksandr Usyk.
“We had a good plan, and we had our good chances in the fight”, Garcia said. “We couldn’t win, but we have to keep in mind that we were fighting perhaps the best fighter pound for pound in the world. Usyk is a great fighter. It was a challenge for me to have my first fight with Anthony against a fighter like Usyk. We did everything we could, we had a good moment in the fight, but we couldn’t win it”.
Robert García doesn’t close the door to work again with Anthony Joshua.
“If they decide to train with someone else, I wish them good luck”, Garcia said. “And if they decide to train with me, and would like to come to train in California, that would be good, because I feel that would work great for Joshua”.
Original story: https://izquierdazo.com/robert-garcia-revela-que-hablo-joshua-conocer-otros-entrenadores/
Robert Garcia: “Anthony Joshua is a natural-born athlete that got used to get things easy; he needs a stricter camp”
Robert Garcia thinks that Anthony Joshua is a natural-born athlete, and because of that, many things in pro boxing came easy for him, but there are times when you have to increase your level of commitment to training.
“He is a complete athlete”, Robert Garcia told IZQUIERDAZO about Anthony Joshua’s career. “He started to box at 18 years old, and three years later, he was an olympic gold medalist. That is something big, without having that much amateur experience. And then turned pro, and a couple of years later was a world champion. That proves that he is a natural-born athlete. He is an athlete that accomplished so much that he didn’t need to be strict in his commitment in the gym, in his training regime, in the election of a coach”.
Anthony Joshua won an Olympic gold medal in 2012, turned pro the following year, and in 2016, in just his 16th fight, became the IBF heavyweight world champion. In 2017, won the WBA belt by stopping Wladimir Klitschko.
“Everything was a little bit easier for him than for any other boxer”, Garcia said. “So that was something he got used to”.
But according to Robert Garcia, that doesn’t mean that AJ is a lazy fighter.
“He is not a fighter that dislikes to train”, Garcia clarifies. “He is an athlete, he keeps himself in good condition, in good shape. He is an athlete, he is not a lazy fighter”.
In Garcia’s opinion, there is a certain level of fights and opponents that requires another level of commitment to training.
“Because everything was kind of easy and quick for him, he thought that that was the right way to do it. That he didn’t need to do it in another way”, Garcia explained. “But when the time comes for this kind of fights (like Usyk), with fighters of a higher level, tougher fights, harder fights, you need a stricter camp, where he follows indications. He is a dedicated fighter, he does and listens to what he is told to, but maybe he thinks that he was a champion without doing that much or without having that much commitment. But when you are fighting against opponents like Usyk, that is something different”.
Original story: https://izquierdazo.com/joshua-todo-se-le-dio-facil-robert-garcia/
Video: https://youtu.be/eRshkgPogqk
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