“MY MUMMY is a champion,” the little girl told her class at school. That will do nicely and the smile on Tysie Gallagher’s face screams pride.
Last month, Gallagher beat Lisa Whiteside to win the Commonwealth super-bantamweight title. It was her seventh fight, her sixth win. She is 24. Her daughter, Macie, is five. Tysie fights because of Katie Taylor and that is now a familiar story. Nobody fought because of Jane Couch or Christy Martin. The revolution came after they quit the ring. Martin famously hated her opponents and always denied she was fighting to improve the female boxing
