by David P. Greisman

Vyacheslav Glazkov has switched trainers multiple times in recent years. He’ll once again have another person in his corner for his March 14 bout with Steve Cunningham, though this new face is actually not new to Glazkov.

Victor Petrochenko worked with Glazkov before, according to manager Egis Klimas. He’s also worked with other recognizable names in former middleweight titleholder Dmitry Pirog and twice-beaten super middleweight Maxim Vlasov.

Petrochenko steps in in place of John David Jackson, who worked Glazkov’s previous bout, a November stoppage of Darnell Wilson.

“He [Glazkov] worked at one time with Don Turner, who is one of the best trainers, but he [Glazkov] was always in Ukraine and [came] here,” Klimas said on a Feb. 18 media conference call. “Don can’t change him in the two weeks before the fight. It isn’t possible. Then we went to John David Jackson. John David Jackson [is] away with Sergey [Kovalev] preparing for [Jean] Pascal, so John David Jackson cannot pay attention.

“So this time we brought up his old trainer. They know each other from Russia. His trainer now is working, we’re working together in Oxnard, getting good sparring, much longer preparation time. Glazkov moved to the United States with his family and his wife. … He’s not coming back and forth. Now his preparation is 100 percent.”

Glazkov-Cunningham takes place in Montreal on the televised HBO undercard to Kovalev-Pascal. It is a heavyweight elimination bout for the right to face the winner of April’s fight between champion Wladimir Klitschko and challenger Bryant Jennings.

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