Tysie Gallagher has a shot at becoming Luton’s first-ever female boxing world champion in November after being named as the challenger Ségolène Lefebvre for her WBO super bantamweight crown.
The Luton fighter, 25, became the town’s first female boxing champion in April when she beat Lisa Whiteside to take the Commonwealth title and she had her sights set on Nina Hughes’ WBA world strap.
Gallagher told IFL TV in June that, “for 24 hours I thought that fight was mine” after Shannon Courtenay pulled out of a title contest with Hughes, who is the only woman to have beaten Gallagher so far. Hughes went on to fight Katie Healy.
Gallagher added of a rematch with Hughes: “I reckon it’s a fight that’s got a story behind it that we could have for the future.”
But now the Luton fighter will travel to the Hippodrome in Douai, France, on November 24 to take on Lefebvre.
The 30-year-old won the world title in 2021, beating Paulette Valenzuela for the vacant belt and she has since defended it twice against Melania Sorroche and Debora Anahi Dionicius to add to her unbeaten career total of 17 victories – but in November someone’s O will go.
Gallagher is out in Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands on a training camp with trainer Tony Pill and she posted on Instagram: ‘Just under 10 weeks until I become WBO champion of the world’.
