The famous Latin boxing coach Robert Garcia briefly trained the former two-time heavyweight world boxing champion Anthony Joshua, so he still has some confidence in Anthony Joshua’s overall strength. A more intuitive understanding.
In September 2021, after Anthony Joshua lost to Oleksandr Usyk for the first time, Anthony Joshua fired his coach. And began the coaching audition, and then selected Robert Garcia to coach him to prepare for his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk. However, in August 2022, Anthony Joshua lost to Oleksandr Usyk again. After that fight, Anthony Joshua and Robert Garcia also parted ways. Afterwards, Anthony Joshua auditioned again for coaching, and this time he selected and hired Derrick James as his coach.
Since then, Anthony Joshua has won three consecutive fights (although, in last month’s victory over Otto Varin, Anthony Joshua was coached by Ben Davis).
Originally, Anthony Joshua, who successfully won the game, was going to fight the former WBC heavyweight world boxing champion Deontay Wilder in March 2024 as planned, but unfortunately, Deontay Wilder, who participated in the game on the same day, was Ta Wilder unexpectedly lost to former WBO heavyweight world boxing champion Joseph Parker, which brought the match between the two to naught.
However, it is obvious that Anthony Joshua still hopes to participate in the March competition (because it is still held in Saudi Arabia). Currently, there are three candidate opponents before Anthony Joshua, and former UFC heavyweight world champion Francis Ngannou is also one of them.
Although they are no longer cooperating, Robert Garcia still pays attention to Anthony Joshua. In an interview with es News reporter, Robert Garcia said that Anthony Joshua can easily defeat the mixed martial arts veteran in a professional boxing match. Francis Ngannou.
es News reporter politely reminded Robert Garcia that in October 2023, Francis Ngannou performed well in the match with the current WBC heavyweight world boxing champion Tyson Fury. As a novice boxer, Francis Ngannou not only fought evenly with Tyson Fury for most of the game, but also knocked down Tyson Fury once in the third round of the game.
Robert Garcia expressed his affirmation of Francis Ngannou's performance in the interview, but Robert Garcia still believes that a strong man like Francis Ngannou in the mixed martial arts arena cannot deal with Anthony Joshua.
Roberto Garcia told esNews: "It will be an easy fight for Anthony Joshua. I don't think such an unequal fight should even be sanctioned. It's not just Francis Ngannou and Francis Ngannou’s fight with world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury should also not be approved. Such a fight is disrespectful to the sport of boxing and will be embarrassing regardless of victory or defeat.”
At the end of the interview, Robert Garcia also commented that most of the top heavyweight boxers in today's professional boxing world cannot compare with the elite fighters of the 80s or 90s.
“In the modern world of heavyweight boxing, no one can compare to the legends of the 1990s such as Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis. Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield may cause some controversy now, but if Lennox Lewis was placed in today's boxing world, he would undoubtedly easily defeat most heavyweights. Although Anthony Joshua is already a A pretty good boxer, but he still can't compare with the legends of the 1980s and 1990s," Robert Garcia commented to reporters.
