Tysie Gallagher came up short a year ago in her first shot at the WBO junior featherweight title. Now she’s asking the sanctioning body to give her another chance.
Gallagher is a 26-year-old from Luton, England, with a record of 9-2 (0 KOs). She is currently rated No. 3 by the WBO. An email from her team requesting that she be moved to No. 1 was read during a Thursday meeting of the WBO’s ratings committee at the sanctioning body’s convention in Puerto Rico.
The unified WBO and IBF titleholder is Ellie Scotney, a 26-year-old from London who is 9-0 (0 KOs). Scotney picked up the IBF belt with a June 2023 decision over Cherneka Johnson and added the WBO version this past April with a decision over Segolene Lefebvre.
Lefebvre defeated Gallagher via majority decision in November 2023. Gallagher has fought three times this year, winning all of them on the scorecards.
Newly elected WBO president Gustavo Olivieri called on Kevin Rooney, a representative of Scotney’s promoter, Matchroom Boxing, to ask about their fighter.
“She was due to fight, unified, and then there was an injury, so we’re in the process of rescheduling that,” Rooney responded.
Olivieri then asked about Scotney’s injury, and Rooney for some reason indicated that it was their opponent who was hurt. However, it was indeed Scotney who pulled out of an October 26 fight with Mea Motu, who is ranked No. 1 by the IBF but is unranked by the WBO.
“We were trying to get her out before the end of the year,” Rooney said. “It looks like [she’ll fight again in] the first quarter of 2025.”
David Greisman, who has covered boxing since 2004, is on Twitter @FightingWords2 and @UnitedBoxingPod. He is the co-host of the United Boxing Podcast. David’s book, “Fighting Words: The Heart and Heartbreak of Boxing,” is available on Amazon.
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