Josh’s career continues to flourish and up until around December 2019 he was trained by Barry’s son, Shane McGuigan, however, their relationship turned sour and Josh made the not so difficult decision to leave and sign a deal with Bob Arum and Top Rank boxing, a clever career move for the up-and-coming boxer as he is now trained by Ben Davison, who has trained the likes of Tyson Fury and Billy Joe Saunders. Ben is best known for helping the gypsy king to shed 10 stone leading to the biggest comeback in boxing history.

2019 was an eventful year for Josh as he fell into the trap many boxers before him have fallen into and suffered bad publicity due to how he conducted himself outside of the ring, after a drunken night out he found himself in the dock accused of shouting profanities at bouncers outside a nightclub in Edinburgh, near his hometown of Prestonpans after being asked to leave for being too intoxicated. It was also alleged Josh had cocaine in his possession (a charge that was later dropped) Josh pled guilty to the former charge and was fined £350.

As expected after a night in the city’s St Leonard's police station Josh woke from his slumber absolutely mortified and took to Twitter to apologise, he also met with the bouncer in question to give his deepest apologies, a meeting that was conveniently caught on camera with the two men shaking hands and laughing it off (excellent PR work).