Anthony Joshua's potential fight against Francis Ngannou shouldn't be sanctioned, according to trainer Robert Garcia.
In a clear dig at Tyson Fury, Garcia has claimed that Joshua would easily beat Ngannou if the pair were to lock horns in the ring.
Ngannou has only had one professional boxing match to date, the controversial loss to Fury last October.
The MMA fighter took the Gypsy King the full 10 rounds in their bout in Saudi Arabia.
Anthony Joshua could face Francis Ngannou after his controversial loss to Tyson Fury
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Fury suffered a knockdown and many felt Ngannou was the deserving winner in what would have been one of the sport's biggest shocks.
But a split decision gave Fury the win to maintain his unbeaten professional record.
Ngannou's performance has seen him linked with a mega fight against Joshua, with promoter Eddie Hearn confirming it is a possibility.
But Garcia is disgusted by the suggestion and believes Joshua would ease past the Cameroon-born star.
Garcia claimed Fury's performance against Ngannou was 'embarrassing', insisting it was disrespectful to the sport.
Garcia told ESNews: "It’s an easy fight for Joshua. These fights shouldn’t even be sanctioned.
"Francis Ngannou's fight against heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury should not have been sanctioned.
"However, it was a disrespect to the sport of boxing on Tyson Fury's part as he didn't train a single day for this fight. It was just embarrassing.
"You can't call it an upset because Fury won, the judges gave it to Fury so you can't call it an upset."
Joshua has bounced back from two losses against Oleksandr Usyk by beating Jermaine Franklin, Robert Helenius and Otto Wallin since last April.
Garcia is a fan of the 34-year-old but doesn't think he would have mixed it with previous generations of heavyweight boxers.
He added: "In heavyweight boxing, none of these [current] guys would hang with Mike Tyson, [Evander] Holyfield, [Larry] Holmes.
"That was different. Joshua is one of the good ones, but you can’t compare them to the 80s and 90s.
"It was a completely different boxing back then. Only Lennox Lewis would do it really well even now.
"He would beat any heavyweight of this new generation."
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Tyson Fury controversially beat Francis Ngannou in Saudi Arabia
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Ngannou isn't the only potential fight for Joshua but it is now unlikely that a clash with Deontay Wilder will be set up following his loss to Joseph Parker last month.
Hearn told iFL TV: "So right now we have three fights that we’re in discussions for.
"They’re all big and that doesn’t involve Deontay Wilder for March.
"Our aim, and we’ve expressed this, is to fight the winner of Fury-Usyk. That’s all we want to do.
"Obviously, there’s the [Filip] Hrgovic fight out there for the world heavyweight title.
"There’s a Francis Ngannou fight out there, which would be absolutely colossal. There’s other heavyweights as well
Anthony Joshua has now won his last three fights
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"The [Zhilei] Zhang fight possibly as well with Queensbury.
“Parker, yeah, possibly. It’s difficult. We fought Parker, beat him, unified against him, it was five years ago whatever it was, but Joseph’s definitely earned the right for a big fight.
"He’s just beaten Deontay Wilder, so we don’t rule that out either."
