“Garcia is the first one to say the things he said, and I didn’t like that, I found it weird. I am not perfect. Trust me, I do have tough days in camp, but he went and pointed those things out – out of all the things we did in training camp.”

Under Garcia, Joshua fell to a decision defeat by Usyk, just as he had under McCracken in 2021.

Now Joshua is aiming to bounce back as he fights Franklin, who is coming off a narrow points loss to Dillian Whyte in November.

Franklin, 29, lost a majority decision to Whyte, but many fans and pundits thought the American had done enough to win.

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