{"id":6864,"date":"2021-10-21T18:22:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T18:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/furyfightclub.com\/?p=6864"},"modified":"2021-10-21T18:22:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T18:22:02","slug":"is-ronnie-shields-the-right-trainer-for-anthony-joshua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furyfightclub.com\/sq\/is-ronnie-shields-the-right-trainer-for-anthony-joshua\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Ronnie Shields the right trainer for Anthony Joshua?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Joshua seems set to make a trainer change after his\u00a0loss to Oleksandr Usyk on Sept. 25<\/a>, as he\u2019s visited with Virgil Hunter \u2014 who trains Joshua Buatsi \u2014 and Canelo Alvarez\u2019s team led by Eddy Reynoso in California.<\/p>\n

But he also stopped in Texas and worked out with Ronnie Shields, which is getting the most attention, and may be where AJ winds up landing if he does make a change, which has not been fully confirmed publicly just yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was them who reached out to me, they reached out to me,\u201d\u00a0Shields told Tha Boxing Voice<\/a>. \u201cAnd they asked me would I be interested in taking a look at AJ and, you know, he would like to come down to Texas and see if things could work out between him and I. So I said, \u2018Yeah, no problem, I would love to take a look at him, love to see if we can mesh together.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

With\u00a0Joshua set to rematch Usyk in early 2022<\/a>, he\u2019ll want to be getting to work very soon, especially as making a trainer change with a big fight looming instead of a tune-up is a very serious move, and can be quite tricky to pull off correctly.<\/p>\n

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Shields believes he would be the right man for the assignment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be great to get him to reclaim his world titles that he lost to Usyk and I think I\u2019ve got the capabilities to help him to do that,\u201d the veteran trainer said. \u201cFor the last two days, everything seemed to go well. The first day was just all talk, we talked for about three or four hours,\u201d Shields said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he came back today, I told him I wanted to do just some light pad work with him to just show him everything we talked about. You can talk it, but you have to be able to prove and show the fighter what you really mean and how I think he should do things. We did some light work and I just put him through some drills that I do that will make him understand what I was talking about the day before.\u201d<\/p>\n