They will be rooting hard in the Queens residence of Tommy Gallagher, NY boxing royalty, for Joe Smith to beat Bernard Hopkins in LA tonight.
Gallagher…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBKTo0WCGSc&sns=em
..has trained Smith with the Capobianco brothers but was having circulation issues in his legs so he didn’t trek to LA. “A few more weeks and I would have been there. But we win this absolutely,” Gallagher told me. “Hopkins is a disrespectful guy, no humility. Internally, inside, he’s a bad guy. Joe has seen hard times and is humble. I think he’s turned the corner and knows how important this is for his family. Maybe losing can bring humility to Hopkins. But I think he’s a guttersnipe.”
Gallagher handled Ecuadorian Segundo Mercado, who fought B Hop twice, drawing in the first one (1994)…
…and losing by TKO in the second one (1995).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t04TtTDaX_k
Yeah, his fingers will be crossed hard enough tonight watching on HBO to affect that circulation too. No love lost and hell, no love found in Hopkins from Gallagher.