Deontay Wilder has dismissed claims that he has fired long-term coach Jay Deas ahead of his third fight with Tyson Fury.
The former heavyweight champion will face Fury for a third time on July 24 in Las Vegas following an arbitration ruling.
Fury has been set to face Anthony Joshua for the unified heavyweight title in Saudi Arabia on August 14, but at the eleventh hour an retired judge ruled that Wilder must be Fury's next opponent.
And within just hours, a new date and venue had been set, and Fury-Joshua for all the belts was scrapped in favour of Fury-Wilder 3 for the WBC and The Ring titles.
Wilder has been training with retired heavyweight Malik Scott ahead of the trilogy bout having made changes to his coaching team.
But in his first interview since the ruling, he told 78Sports TV that he was sticking with Jay Deas, despite reports to the contrary.
"I'm sure if anyone's been keeping up with me on social media they'd see Jay Deas in the different clips that Malik is always posting." said Wilder.
"Jay Deas is in the background doing his thing, you can hear his voice in certain clips, Jay Deas is still on the team, man.
"There's been a lot of false allegations about me, false statements, which is you want to listen to negative stuff then be my guest, but if you don't hear it from me it didn't happen.
"I've got my full team and I'm happy with what I have, it's been a great camp, this is our third one and it's been about training, focusing on getting back to me and it's going to be crazy."
Wilder and Fury fought to a controversial draw in their first bout in 2018, where many felt the Brit had done enough to win the fight despite being viciously knocked down in the 12th.
But there was no disputing the result of their rematch 14 months later when Fury bloodied and battered Wilder for seven rounds, landing two knockdowns before the American's corner threw in the towel.
However, Wilder believes that he is going to get revenge in their rematch, in such a way that Fury may never fight again.
"My mindset is so different," he added. "Even right now I don't feel like I'm here, my mentality is that I'm contemplating hurting this man [Fury] so bad that I want to disfigure him [Fury] so his mother won't even recognise him if she passed by him.
"When you've been having your mind set on this one person and how you want to decapitate him in every f***ing way possible, it's like that pre-meditated stuff.
"When I do see him, I'm going to love to see what I feel, what I'm thinking, how my senses change when he's in my environment because I've been contemplating, I've been pre-meditating whooping this man."
