Star musician, Daddy Showkey, has volunteered to train dethroned heavyweight boxing champion, Anthony Joshua, for his next fight.
The 48-year-old made the offer in a chat with Qed.ng hours after Nigerian-British boxer was knocked out by unfancied Andy Ruiz Jr at New York’s Madison Square Garden, USA.
Showkey had earlier posted a video on Instagram in which he told the previously undefeated Joshua to “come home for good and hard training.”
Speaking to this online newspaper later in a phone conversation, Showkey blamed the loss on Joshua’s attitude.
“He went into the match thinking he had won. There was too much paparazzi around him.
“As a boxing coach, I will tell him to come home for proper training.
“He should come to Ajegunle of the National Stadium and let me train him for his next fight,” Showkey said.
Speaking after Sunday’s match, boxing promoter, Eddie Hearn, said “This will devastate him.
“He will come back. It’s now down to the rematch and winning that fight.
“To get back to the heights he has been, he must win that rematch.”
Joshua will get a chance to rectify things in a rematch in London, in November or December.
Before making a name as a musician, Showkey was a boxer known as Pako in the Ajegunle area of Lagos.
