Tysie Gallagher got here up brief a 12 months in the past in her first shot on the WBO junior featherweight title. Now she’s asking the sanctioning physique to provide her one other likelihood.
Gallagher is a 26-year-old from Luton, England, with a file of 9-2 (0 KOs). She is at the moment rated No. 3 by the WBO. An electronic mail from her workforce requesting that she be moved to No. 1 was learn throughout a Thursday assembly of the WBO’s scores committee on the sanctioning physique’s conference in Puerto Rico.
The unified WBO and IBF titleholder is Ellie Scotney, a 26-year-old from London who’s 9-0 (0 KOs). Scotney picked up the IBF belt with a June 2023 choice over Cherneka Johnson and added the WBO model this previous April with a call over Segolene Lefebvre.
Lefebvre defeated Gallagher by way of majority choice in November 2023. Gallagher has fought 3 times this 12 months, successful all of them on the scorecards.
Newly elected WBO president Gustavo Olivieri referred to as on Kevin Rooney, a consultant of Scotney’s promoter, Matchroom Boxing, to ask about their fighter.
“She was because of struggle, unified, after which there was an harm, so we’re within the means of rescheduling that,” Rooney responded.
Olivieri then requested about Scotney’s harm, and Rooney for some cause indicated that it was their opponent who was harm. Nevertheless, it was certainly Scotney who pulled out of an October 26 struggle with Mea Motu, who’s ranked No. 1 by the IBF however is unranked by the WBO.
“We had been making an attempt to get her out earlier than the top of the 12 months,” Rooney stated. “It seems like [she’ll fight again in] the primary quarter of 2025.”
David Greisman, who has coated boxing since 2004, is on Twitter @FightingWords2 and @UnitedBoxingPod. He’s the co-host of the United Boxing Podcast. David’s e-book, “Combating Phrases: The Coronary heart and Heartbreak of Boxing,” is on the market on Amazon.
