WBO world middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders has left trainer Adam Booth to join up with Dominc Ingle in Sheffield.
Saunders, 27, left Jimmy Tibbs last year to join London-based Booth, but believes there are too many disractions being so close to his Hatfield home.
The southpaw, who beat Ireland's Andy Lee to win the world strap back in December 2015, is due to make the next defence of his title on September 16 before hoping to fight the winner of the Gennady Golovkin versus Saul Alavarez clash.
"I got a call a couple of weeks back from [Saunders’ promoter] Frank Warren asking if I’d like to train him, and to be honest I don’t tend to train kids from other gyms who are ready-made, I just don’t do it," Ingle told Boxing News.
"But Billy Joe I’ve known for many years, my fighters have boxed him, I knew him when he was on the GB squad.
"He’s an entertaining fella, he can fight - but that’s not what you have to teach him. It’s his lifestyle, getting him into shape.
"We had a chat, we set a date for him to come up so he arrived last Sunday night, he’s been in the gym for about five sessions, he gets on with everybody, he’s easy-going, he’s on the diet and he’s dropping weight quickly.
"Two weeks of that and we’ll see how he shapes up, he’s got 12 weeks until his fight. He’s only 27 and he said he’s got too many distractions where he lives. He needed to get away. All he does here is train, eat, sleep, rest and he’s back in the gym. I think he’s going to settle here."
