Olympic champion shares advice for three British boxers

Former European Heavyweight champion Audley Harrison has weighed in on the prospects of three top British boxers.

Harrison shared his thoughts in an interview with Legalsportsbooks.com.

How to get Anthony Joshua’s swagger back

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Harrison urges Anthony Joshua to take the retired heavyweights’ advice; 

“When you keep your ‘0’, it gives you that aura. I know when I was undefeated, I had that swagger. Once you lose that ‘0’, you’re going to have to rebuild. That’s where he [Joshua] is right now. He’s in a rebuilding process. The Usyk fights didn’t go his way, but I think he’s got one more run in him; he’s just got to get it right. 

“Joshua – sit with me, we’ll watch your take together. We’ll just watch your last fight together and then I’ll just pick up on some stuff. Then we could talk it through in a gym, maybe work it through, that’s not offered to you. And I’m guaranteeing you it’d be a good time for your investment. I know it’d be a great time of mine, but great time on your investment.”

Joe Joyce needs to ditch his coaching team

After Joyce’s shock loss to Zhilei, Harrison gives some hard truths about Joyce’s current coaching team.

“Another guy {Joyce}, who got it all wrong on the night and Zhang took advantage,” Harrison contends. 

“When he looks at what went wrong, he can’t go back with the same team, no adjustments, because that’s the definition of madness. You can’t get a different result if you do the same thing. So when they look at what went wrong, they should be doing that with an outside audit. You can’t audit yourself. Let me audit you in a good way, not a bad way. It can only help you. It cannot be a negative. Trust me, I know a lot. What I know is too much to go to waste. I’m someone that can teach you, external to your system to the training teams, but they {coaching teams} look at me as a threat. There’s fear, there’s fear.”

How Dubois can beat Usyk

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Ahead of Dubois’ megafight with Usyk in August, Harrison believe he has the key to beating the Ukrainian.

“Dubois, Joe Joyce, even Lawrence Okolie losing the other day. All those guys I’ve reached out to,” Harrison added.

“Talking about Dubois and Usyk. Obviously, Usyk has the big advantage. Dubois is a big puncher, but as we’ve seen in his last couple of last fights, even though he got the win, technically there’s some stuff that he can do. I’d love to sit down with Dubois and give him some stuff. If you get an opportunity like that, you can’t turn it down. Usyk is a big favourite and he’s [Dubois] got to try and make the most of it and get as much advice as he can.” 

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