Does AJ need a new trainer?

Rob McKracken trained Carl Froch, fair to say he won a few world titles during his time. Tony Sims helped get Darren Barker to a world title which considering the injuries he's had was an amazing achievement. Are you seriously suggesting neither of them have trained fighters at world level before?

 

Fair enough, not sure I agree on froch tho. I think his boxing ability is sometimes overlooked because of the wars he was in.

 

AJ's new trainer will be announced after the Rio Olympics as...Rob McCracken. if Rob gives up his GB Director role he will no longer have to pretend not to be AJ's trainer. But question is will they still have access to the state funded training facilities, physios, sports psychologists, S̶p̶e̶c̶i̶a̶l̶i̶s̶t̶ ̶d̶o̶c̶t̶o̶r̶s̶, nutritionists and psychologists? Agree that AJ needs a change, he's still too amateur in his approach and doesn't vary his punches enough.

 

Who would you suggest ? depends if AJ is willing to train away from London really.

 

froch didnt get by on chin and conditioning at all.

Actually watch boxing instead of a boxers pecs. His technique was very very successful until groves 1 where he changed it for groves two. McCracken masterminded it

 

Aj needs to stop being so robotic and start mixing it up a bit, shots to the body would be a start, instead of the same ol one-two. I don't like wilder or haye at all but they both spark aj and fury out boxes him for fun


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AJ doesn't train in London.

Rob McCracken's training of AJ is one of the most bizarre things I've seen, he stands next to him on fight night wearing a low cap to hide his face, does no interviews or press, and they don't show any corner instructions during AJs fights as its McCracken giving the instructions! All while pretending Sims is the trainer...

All very odd.

 

If it works then why try and fix it. AJ doesn't seem stupid so if he's happy with it then who cares.

 

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it, I'm just saying the way they're going about it is a bit weird. Plus there must be a reason that they're (Matchroom, Sky, AJ, Rob) going out of their way to keep it as quiet as possible. for the first year or so they didn't even publically acknowledge that AJ commutes up to Sheffield during camp for training. :think:think:think

 

Well McCracken isn't allowed to train pro fighters while he's head of Team GB, that is why they have kept it quiet. It was a daft rule they put in place a couple years ago.

 

AJ has confirmed that Angel Fernandez is going to be his chief trainer. Not the big shake up I was expecting. London based and part of his camp for the last 3 years as head pad man. Underwhelmed

 

He needs Putin, because no way does he beats Usyk on his own!!

 

Should of kept Rob over this new age Boxercise guy