'We'll do for Manchester what Kronk Gym has done in Detroit'

JOE'S PLAN TO LIGHT UP DARK SIDE

- CHRIS MCKENNA

JOE GALLAGHER is standing outside the gym explaining why he knows it as ‘The Lighthouse’. 

“This was the main road in and out of Manchester. You’d be on the bus looking in the windows, seeing the water drip off the windows, and wondering what was going on inside,” he said.

Gallagher is talking about how, as a kid, he was fascinated by what was going on inside Moss Side Boxing Club.

Soon he would be inside where the light was pouring out from on the second floor of the building on Princess Road, which once sat above a Co-op.