Michael Conlan to train with Adam Booth

According to Dan Rafael of espn.com, Michael Conlan will move his training camp from California where he was trained by Manny Robles to train closer to home in London to train with Adam Booth.

“I have another baby on the way, so it is better for me and my family to be closer to home with me being active in my boxing career and being in camp basically all year round,” Conlan told ESPN. “I felt it was smarter for us as a family to move to back to the U.K. to be closer to our families. It will be better and a lot more comfortable to have that helping hand from grandmothers and sisters. We need to have a better support team around us. In Los Angeles, it was just us, so I needed to move back for my family’s sake.”

“I felt I was doing great with Manny and I have to thank him for everything he’s done for me,” Conlan said. “He didn’t do anything wrong. Always friends with him. He understood family is first and that’s what I’ve done. No ill feelings. He’s a great coach.”

“He doesn’t have that big of a stable of guys so with Adam I know I will get that one-on-one time I need,” Conlan said. “It’s very intense training and very enjoyable.” Conlan (5-0, 4 KOs), 26, won a bronze medal in the 2012 Olympics and then was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the 2016 Olympics in highly controversial fashion. He will next fight on March 17 — St. Patrick’s Day — at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York on Top Rank’s ESPN card headlined by the vacant junior welterweight world title bout between Jose Ramirez and Amir Imam.

“Adam is one of the best coaches in the world,” Conlan said. “I think his coaching style fits my boxing style.”

“Michael was open with us and he said he needed to make the change mainly for family reasons,” Top Rank vice president Carl Moretti said, noting that Top Rank plans to put on a Conlan fight in Belfast this year. “He’s working with a top professional trainer in Adam Booth, so you can’t fault him. All respect to Manny Robles. He did a great job. It was a family thing that Michael had to take care of.”