Tommy Gallagher (trainer)

Thomas ("Tommy") 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] Gallagher trained 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.[2]

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 Doug DeWitt, Vito Antuofermo, Don Lalonde, Lou Savarese, Sergei Kobozev, Segundo Mercado and Merqui Sosa.[3][4]

Gallagher is married with four children and nine grandchildren.

References

  1. ^ Brooks, Tim; Earle Marsh (2007). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present (9 ed.). New York: Random House. p. 1945. ISBN 9780345497734. 
  2. ^ Farrell, Bill (2007). Cradle of Champions: 80 Years of New York Daily News Golden Gloves. New York: Sports Publishing LLC. p. 85. ISBN 9781596702059. 
  3. ^ Sport USSR and world arena. Soviet Union magazine. 1990. p. 27. 
  4. ^ Finger, David E. (2005). Rocky lives!: Heavyweight Boxing Upsets of the 1990s. New York: Brassey's. p. 17. ISBN 9781574889055.