Thomas Gallagher is a boxing trainer best known for his role on reality show The Contender

The Contender (TV series)

The Contender is a reality television series that follows a group of boxers as they compete with one another in an elimination-style competition, while their lives and relationships with each other and their families are depicted. Produced by Mark Burnett, the show is hosted by Sugar Ray Leonard,...

 as a profane and straight-shooting trainer and coach. Gallagher trained 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

Golden Gloves

The Golden Gloves is the name given to annual competitions for amateur boxing in the United States. The Golden Gloves is often the term used to refer to the National Golden Gloves competition, but it also can represent several other amateur tournaments, including regional golden gloves...

 title in 1959, but was prevented from turning pro due to a kidney problem.

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

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, Vito Antuofermo

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, Don Lalonde, Lou Savarese

Lou Savarese

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, Sergei Kobozev

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, Segundo Mercado

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 and Merqui Sosa.

Gallagher is married with four children and nine grandchildren.