The fight against Hellewell was the first for Gallagher, from Luton, since her mother-in-law Diane Cleary was murdered in January.<\/p>\n
“The only thing she would want me to do is carry on and chase my dreams,” the 27-year-old said.<\/p>\n
“She was the biggest supporter. Saturday night, she would have lost her voice like she did every single fight, screaming and shouting for me. I had her voice in my head the whole time.”<\/p>\n
As well as her ring career, Gallagher is also working for the Boxing Saves Lives charity in her home town, trying to help young people stay away from knife crime.<\/p>\n
“If children aren’t feeling confident, or they’ve got low self-esteem, they want to feel like they want to belong somewhere and sometimes in gangs, that’s where you feel like you belong, but there’s a lot of other places where you can belong and create a family, like boxing gyms or football clubs,” she said.<\/p>\n
She added: “I was the class clown. I always had my wits about me but I was easily led, easily distracted and if I wasn’t in a boxing gym every night after school, where would I have been? What situations could I have got in?<\/p>\n
“Boxing took me away from it all. Boxing has saved my life in so many ways and it has made me ready for tough situations in life.”<\/p>\n
Tysie Gallagher was speaking to BBC Three Counties Radio’s Justin Dealey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fight against Hellewell was the first for Gallagher, from Luton, since her mother-in-law Diane Cleary was murdered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-177891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}