During today’s open media workout for this Friday?s ShoBox card headlined by a lightweight battle between Sharif Bogere and Francisco Contreras, I spotted Joseph ?Hoss? Janik, strength and conditioning coach for former champion Victor Ortiz. Janik also trains a few fighters himself, including twice-beaten junior middleweight prospect Francisco Santana, who faces off with unbeaten Jermell Charlo in a co-feature to the Bogere-Contreras scrap.
Janik was in the spotlight a bit this past month as he was chronicled on HBO?s 24/7 Mayweather-Ortiz series that took a look into the two fighters? camps leading into the fight. In a scene that has been well-documented, Ortiz would end up losing to Mayweather by way of a shocking 4th round knockout after absorbing a left-right combination that came out of the blue and had him on the deck.
