Despite that, Gallagher – who took up the sport at the age of 10, around the same time she was diagnosed with ADHD – acknowledges that Ms Cleary, the grandmother of her seven-year-old daughter, is never far from her thoughts.<\/p>\n
“It’s been very hard to deal with and the only thing that’s helped me get through is boxing,” she said.<\/p>\n
“There’s been days when I didn’t want to get out of bed, I could quite easily have locked my door and shut off the world and if it wasn’t for my coaches expecting me to turn up every day, I wouldn’t have.<\/p>\n
“I’m grateful I’ve got good people like that that actually get me out of bed in the mornings and remind me what I’ve got to go and do.<\/p>\n
“I’ve got to go and do it for my mother-in-law, that’s just in the back of my head constantly, every day, every training session, every run, every hardship, I’m doing it for her because I know how proud she’d be.”<\/p>\n
Gallagher said victory over Hellewell would “mean the world” and her daughter will be there to watch the fight.<\/p>\n
“When I’m in the ring, in the gym, obviously I’m a fighter, I’ve got my fight head on – but it’s a great balance, it really keeps me really grounded. <\/p>\n
“When I’m with her I’m a normal mum. It’s a good distraction as well, it’s not all just fight, fight, fight. I need a mix of both.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite that, Gallagher – who took up the sport at the age of 10, around the same time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-167572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}