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Dillian Whyte has taken aim at former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder for his recent training change.
As BoxingScene.com first reported last week, Wilder parted ways with longtime co-trainer and former champion Mark Breland.
It was Breland who threw in the towel during the seventh round of Wilder’s TKO defeat at the hands of Tyson Fury back in February.
Wilder is currently in training for a planned trilogy with Fury.
The third bout was targeted for a date in December, but it currently may get bounced to 2021.
Whyte himself made a controversial training switch in recent months, when he dumped his head trainer of the last four years, Mark Tibbs.
In his first bout without Tibbs, Whyte was knocked out in five rounds by Alexander Povetkin in August.
Wilder retained his two co-trainers Jay Deas and Malik Scott, but Whyte thinks the change he made by dumping Breland will be critical.
“I think it’s the worst mistake he’s ever made, because Mark Breland is the only person in his team that actually was a boxer and actually was a world champion. He was the only person that didn’t care about money or fame,” Whyte said to Sky Sports.
“Someone who was actually from an emotional point, someone who understands, thinking about his health and did the right thing by throwing the towel in, because he could have got seriously hurt. He was getting hit with punches that weren’t knocking him out, they were concussing him. Mark Breland knows what it’s like, because Mark Breland has been in the same position Wilder was in. He’s someone that cares about the athlete and the boxing side of things.
“Not just ‘Bomb Squad’, nonsense. He doesn’t care about that. He’s the only one in the team, you don’t see him running around and shouting and screaming. He’s just a little quiet guy, does his job. Deontay Wilder is an idiot, he clearly can’t see it. Good luck to him, it’s his team, he can do whatever he wants. But I think it’s a bad mistake. Mark Breland is the only one that knows boxing in his team.”