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"I let him go because I didn't want him to fight in December," Anber told ESPN.com. "What I wanted from him was a four-month commitment to boxing. Train, get his weight down, do a lot of conditioning and then go to a training camp. We spent the last five months trying to get him to commit to training. I realized I'm ****ing my head against the wall. I want him to see what you need to do to be an elite middleweight, to prepare for a career, not just one fight, and we weren't going to see eye to eye."
Anber said he brought Lemieux to train with middleweight champion Martinez in Oxnard, Calif., for two weeks before Martinez's Oct. 1 fight to demonstrate how a top pound-for-pound fighter trains. Anber said Lemieux was miserable and has yet to put together three consecutive weeks of training since the Rubio fight.
"We just don't see eye to eye on the way he should be preparing for fights," Anber said. "Instead of him being miserable in the gym, and for my mental sanity, it's better to go separate ways than butt heads. Marc has my blessing. He trains his fighters in my gym, so this split with David is not a hateful split or about money. It's just we are on a different philosophical plane on what it takes to succeed in the elite world of boxing."
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