Marc Farrait – the light heavyweight’s trainer contender since his original trainer and father Hakim “Tito” Lopez passed in 2020 – had always known that his fighter had a warrior’s heart, but he was impressed with how he handled the adversity of the cut, which had impaired his vision for the final seven rounds of the fight. Farrait says the game plan had always been to either stay inside of Gallegos’ power or all the way out of range, using his jab to dictate distance while picking him apart from distance. That became virtually impossible, Farrait says, due to the cuts – three that he counted – which, though not deep, were in bad spots in a way that impaired his vision.
‘Every time I blinked, my eye was covered in blood’
