{"id":402769,"date":"2023-02-07T10:46:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=402769"},"modified":"2023-02-07T10:46:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:46:24","slug":"joshuas-new-head-trainer-confirmed-ahead-of-franklin-fight","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/joshuas-new-head-trainer-confirmed-ahead-of-franklin-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua\u2019s new head trainer confirmed ahead of Franklin fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British heavyweight Anthony Joshua has officially appointed Derrick James as his new head coach ahead of his <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/joshuas-comeback-fight-to-take-place-at-the-o2-arena-in-london\/\">comeback fight against Jermaine Franklin on April 1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AJ is set to return after the Oleksandr Usyk defeats as he takes on the American contender who was last seen battling Dillian Whyte in November.<\/p>\n<p>The former unified heavyweight world champion had previously trained in Sheffield with Robert McCracken for a large portion of his career until his first loss to Usyk in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua then splits with his long-time mentor and headed out to the USA to scout new coaches.<\/p>\n<p>He decided to link up with Robert Garcia and brought him to Britain to prepare for the second bout with Usyk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British heavyweight Anthony Joshua has officially appointed Derrick James as his new head coach ahead of his comeback fight against Jermaine Franklin on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":402770,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17307,17309],"news_category":[16710],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"AJ to fight Franklin in London on April 1","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/402769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/402769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402769"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=402769"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=402769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}