Recently, former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua can be said to be quite busy, and he is in the United States, and he was found to visit the local coach for the third time in 1 week. Not long ago, Joshua visited Virgil Hill and Eddie Renoso in California. Now, there is video showing Joshua traveling to Texas to visit another famous coach, Ronnie Sheldez.
It is widely believed that with the loss to Orekood Usik last month, Joshua may have to change coaches, that is, to end the cooperation with long-term coach Robert McCracken and find a new person.
According to the video taken, Joshua went to The Training Hall in Sheldez, communicated with the other side, visited the boxers who were preparing there, and also carried out basic training such as jumping rope and sandbags.
Sheldez is full of peach and plum in the field of coaching, and the number of well-known boxers he has created even exceeds that of Hill and Reynoldso mentioned above. Sheldez has been the coach of David Tua, "Viper" Warnan Forrest, Bernell Vitak, and Ellis Randy Lala, and is better known for being appointed in 2002 to direct Mike Tyson vs. Lennox Lewis. In addition, Shelderz also coached Ivand Hollyfield in 2004-2008, during which time he helped the elder Ho to attack the world championship twice.
Today, Shjardez is the coach of the Charlo brothers, including Cuban star Guillermo Rigundo and heavyweight boxing rookie Ef Ajaba.
It's unclear whether Joshua will definitely fire former coach McClaken and then work with the new coach, but it's important to note that even if he changes coaches, it may not help him improve his physical fitness and ability to resist blows.
Next, Joshua will only have two situations on the coaching issue, one is to really part ways with McLaken, and the other is to just listen to the advice of different coaches, and maybe even hire them as consultants, which is good for Joshua to prepare for the resumption of the game with Usik.
Most people think that Joshua's direct choice of the second battle after the loss to Usik after the points is a huge mistake, interestingly, Joshua promoter Eddie Hearn did not stop this issue, he also agreed to immediately resume the match with Usik, knowing that Joshua did not agree to this before the first meeting between Joshua and Usik.
Hearn may have been a "go with the flow" man, but another defeat would be devastating for both him and Joshua, and it was too late to realize that it was a mistake.
Joshua may feel that he is in the same pressure situation in 2019, revenge "little fat" Andy Ruiz, this time will also take revenge on Usik, but Usik and Ruiz are completely different, not to mention the technical and stylistic gap between the two, Usik is a more disciplined person than Ruiz, he will not enter the second battle in a slack state, which will be very tricky for Joshua.
What Joshua has to do in the second battle is to change himself, develop new tactics, and try to suppress Usik in the way of playing, to know that he has simply fallen into the rhythm of the other side, and his advantages have not been played at all, as for Joshua's physical strength and ability to resist blows, even if they cannot be solved, they must face the difficulties, because there is no other way.