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.