Comments Thread For: McGuigan on Joshua: Needs To Stop Questioning Himself, Not Place Blame on Trainers

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Trainer Shane McGuigan believes former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua should stop questioning himself and should certainly remove any performance blame from his trainers.
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[mjh1969]

McGuigan is 100% right. It isn't the trainer, its the fighter. DeLaHoya did the same thing in the middle of his career. He constantly changed trainers and kept getting the same results. Joshua isn't as good as he was brought up to be and now it's starting to show. Joshua needs a psychologist to help him with his mentality. John Ruiz really messed up Joshua in their first fight.

[Casualfanboy]

He should be looking for a good psychiatrist, and not some Sage trainer who will magically give him more ability

[Quercusalba]

McGuigan is 100% right. It isn't the trainer, its the fighter. DeLaHoya did the same thing in the middle of his career. He constantly changed trainers and kept getting the same results. Joshua isn't as good as he was brought up to be and now it's starting to show. Joshua needs a psychologist to help him with his mentality. John Ruiz really messed up Joshua in their first fight.

That was a heck of a thing when John Ruiz came out of retirement to beat AJ...

[Neil Anblomi]

Teddy Atlas would train Joshua
Virgil Hunter & Andre Ward would train him too
He needs 3 fights with a new trainer fighting c/b level guys. Build up to a Dubois fight then go for a title again

[Idunnoshet]

Unfortunately for AJ the trainer who could bring the best outta him is no longer with us.

Rest In Peace Emmanuel Stewart.
The best trainer of his generation IMO.

[Winky-Wright]

Joshua just wants yes men around him blowing smoke up his arse for his huge inflated ego, he’s a self help book gone wrong.

[Neil Anblomi]

Unfortunately for AJ the trainer who could bring the best outta him is no longer with us.

Rest In Peace Emmanuel Stewart.
The best trainer of his generation IMO.

I reckon Klitschko would teach him the kronk style with Banks as assistant.

Unsure if there's ever been a heavyweight champeen that's coached another heavyweight to world championship?

[Griever0730]

At this point in his career, highly doubt any trainer would be able to do anything with him. Garcia did the best he could with him against arguably the best fighter in the world. Any trainer now would probably look good with him bc he's not gonna be fighting Usyk every fight from here on out. Joshua has probably reached his peak at this point and is such a huge star to the point that people are gonna be around to just go along and get paid. Hard to see him improve or change anything at his age.

[Neil Anblomi]

Joshua just wants yes men around him blowing smoke up his arse for his huge inflated ego, he’s a self help book gone wrong.

He's the opposite for me, uncertain of himself yet keen to improve. He wants real talk & he needs a coach that breaks everything down as he's showing him.
Joshua learns with the principles rather than just the technique & he learns from experience. The kind of fighter you could tell to move their head 50 times & still catch them. Yet slap him early & he'll do his best not to let you catch him again

He got too big too soon & now despite what he needs & wants all he's getting is yes men who only grow an opinion when they've been binned & aren't cashing in.

Atlas would set him straight but he needs to step down & rebuild rather than thinking he's fixable after 1-2 fights