RATHER than lazily call Joe Gallagher the repair man, or suggest he is boxing’s go-to fixer-upper, it might be better comparing him to someone like Quentin Tarantino, whose favourite thing in the nineties was to revamp the careers of actors and actresses deemed to have faded into obscurity. This Tarantino managed to do with not only John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, but also Pam Grier and Robert Forster in Jackie Brown, and Gallagher, in the boxing world, has a habit of doing similar.
In the past the Manchester trainer has played his part in the unlikely turnarounds of Matthew Macklin, Paul Smith, and Anthony Crolla, and now, in 2024, Gallagher is at it again. This time the fighter is Lawrence
