McCracken plans to carry out his new role with that of head coach and has decided to get rid of Travis, a former international boxer who was only named on the coaching team for London 2012 eight months ago.

Travis, who was in the corner when Harrison won the Olympic superheavyweight title in Sydney in 2000, had been expected to stay on.

Derek Mapp, the chairman of the BABA, said: "The situation is that Rob is merging his position and that of head coach.

"Kelvyn has done a good job up to now but you can't have two people standing on the same pedestal."

Travis, 60, was a controversial appointment after he was allegedly involved in a fight that ended with a rival trainer having his jaw broken and that led to him losing his job with the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE).

Travis later won a case for unfair dismissal when a Manchester tribunal ruled that World-Class Performance Lottery Funding - an elite programme established by ABAE- should not have dismissed him over the unproven allegations that he had assaulted the fellow trainer in the incident before the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

But Jim Davison, the respected number two to former head coach Terry Edwards and Travis, is staying on despite rumours he was quitting.


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