We Built This City
Manc 103: Joe Gallagher - Wythenshawe and World Champions: A Manc Mentality with Championship Mindset
Published: 5 June 2026 at 00:15 Europe/London
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What does it mean to spend over 40 years building a career that shapes so much of who you are?
Joe Gallagher is a professional world champion boxing coach and the owner of Gallagher's Gym in Moss Side. A born and bred Mancunian, Joe spends his time fighting people’s corner, encouraging them to find strength and ultimately win.
In this episode, you’ll hear how Joe’s entry into boxing at just 10 years old has formed his values, relationships and work ethic and what drives him to show up at the gym every day, even with his diagnosis of stage four bowel cancer.
Joe got his start at Wythenshawe Forum ABC with legendary boxing trainer Jimmy Egan. You’ll hear how formative those years were for Joe and what it means for him to return to the venue after 40 years, coaching the sons of his former rivals in a huge night of boxing on June 6th.
Find out what learning to fight teaches you about people and how you can build strength that goes beyond the physical.
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Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre. From that point, the business and its team members have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.
To celebrate the 30 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family’ and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world.
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