GB Boxing’s performance director, who also trains the former world heavyweight champion, has overseen major changes in the men’s and women’s games over the past 10 years
While Rob McCracken sits through a meeting that is partly about Anthony Joshua’s ring walk before he fights Andy Ruiz Jr in their intriguing rematch on 7 December, there is time to wander around the Sheffield dream factory where he has been the understated foreman for the past 10 years. McCracken was appointed the performance director of GB Boxing in November 2009 and the transformation over the past decade has been staggering.
When he was offered the job McCracken was best known as being Carl Froch’s trainer – just as he now comes under fierce scrutiny in Joshua’s corner. The way in which McCracken has managed to blend the contrasting worlds of amateur and professional boxing, for the benefit of all his fighters, is just one of the fascinating features in a story which reaches another milestone period.
Written by Donald McRae
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