Roy Jones Jr. I believe Anthony Joshua needs to ditch trainer Ben Davison in favor of someone with real boxing experience. Jones Jr. feels that Ben does not have the prerequisite knowledge of the sport because he is not a fighter.
Joshua’s failure against IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois last month was due to Ben’s coaching advice, which wrecked AJ and sent him to rock bottom. Joshua’s career is now in bad shape. If Joshua chooses to keep Ben Davison, it would be the same thing: garbage in, garbage out.
If Joshua was a younger fighter, staying loyal to Davison wouldn’t be a big deal, hoping he can fix things. Joshua turns 35 on October 15, and he doesn’t have much time to stay with an inexperienced trainer.
If Joshua doesn’t want to be the one to fire Ben, he can have Eddie Hearn do the dirty work. It doesn’t matter who does it, but Joshua needs an experienced guy who can help prepare him for the rematch with Dubois if that’s the direction he’s going to go.
Joshua is good enough to beat Tyson Fury without a coach. He could have someone he pulled off the street to work his corner for a fight against Fury, and he would still probably win.
For a rematch against Dubois or a trilogy fight against Oleksandr Usyk, Joshua needs to have Ben Davison walk the table and send him overboard in favor of a new captain for his ship.
Ben Davison Lacks Experience
“It takes a real knowledge of boxing to prepare yourself and improve. If you don’t have someone with a real IQ and knowledge of boxing who has been there and done that, they can’t teach you anything,” said Roy Jones Jr. talkSport Boxing about whether Anthony Joshua can win his rematch against Daniel Dubois.
“You need someone who can charter those seas when they get rough. I don’t think Ben Davison has been in enough combat. Ben has done a lot of coaching, but it’s hard when you haven’t been there yourself.”
Jones isn’t saying who he thinks should take over as Joshua’s new trainer, but it wouldn’t be a shock if he were to throw his hat in the ring, hoping to get the job. If Joshua can unlearn all the things that were put into his head by Davison, Roy could help. There are a lot of things Joshua would need to unlearn for a talented coach like Roy to turn his career around.
“Some guys are lucky, but it’s very difficult for a coach who hasn’t been himself. I can’t tell you how to swim across the ocean if I’ve never swam in the ocean before. I’m sorry,” Roy said.
Davison briefly trained Tyson Fury, but dumped him in favor of Sugarhill Steward and had a great run until fighters figured out how to beat his style. It also needs to be broken.
“It’s nothing against Ben Davison because he’s been good, but when you get into that deep water and you haven’t been in that deep water, that shark has invested water, it’s hard for you to tell somebody what it is because you don’t have you ever been there,” said Roy Jr.
Jones Jr. he is right It’s not personal, but Ben has to go because he’s useless ballast for Joshua, and he needs to be dumped soon. It’s unclear why Joshua hired Davison in the first place, but it’s definitely time to find a quality trainer who can help him prepare for this important rematch with Dubois. Well it will be fine. He is a popular trainer in the UK, and will continue to get fighters interested in being trained by him.
