Tommy Gallagher (trainer)
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Thomas Gallagher is a boxing trainer best known for his role on reality show The Contender as a profane and straight-shooting trainer and coach.[1] In 2014, Gallagher was a cast member of season 2 of Esquire Network's White Collar Brawlers.[2] Gallagher trained WBC welter-weight champion Andre Berto when he was an amateur and now coaches a team of amateurs at Inferno Gym Naples, Florida.
As an amateur fighter, Gallagher won a Golden Gloves title in 1959, but was prevented from turning pro due to a kidney problem.[3]
Gallagher since has worked almost forty years as a trainer, manager, promoter, and gym owner and operator. He has been a factor in the careers of such boxers as
Gallagher is married with four children and nine grandchildren.
References
- ISBN 978-0-345-49773-4.
- ^ "White Collar Brawlers". Esquire TV. Retrieved December 31, 2014.
- ISBN 978-1-59670-205-9.
- ^ "Sport USSR and world arena" (332–333). Soviet Union magazine. 1990: 27.
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