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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<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n