Tommy Gallagher (trainer)

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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 Doug DeWitt, Vito Antuofermo, Don Lalonde, Lou Savarese, Sergei Kobozev, Segundo Mercado, Merqui Sosa and Johnny Turner.[4][5]

Gallagher is married with four children and nine grandchildren.

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