AMANDA GALLE HAS HIT $2500 OF SUPPORT IN 2023 AND IS ALREADY GEARING UP FOR A KNOCK OUT YEAR IN 2024
Amanda Galle is Canada’s top Professional Bantamweight boxer, ranked #1 with an undefeated record of 7-0. Prior to turning pro, Amanda dominated the amateur circuit, collecting numerous decorative titles: 3x Canadian National Champion, Team Canada Rep 2014, 2018. 4x Ringside World Boxing Champion, & Boxing Ontario’s 2012 Female Athlete of the Year.
Though she keeps busy with her professional boxing career, to say the least, Amanda continues to find ways to work the Fight To End Cancer into her everyday interactions.
For Breast Cancer Awareness month, Amanda raised $1,100 this year for the Fight To End Cancer through her gym’s PINK initiative. Members of the gym could purchase a pink belt throughout the month with the proceeds going to the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation. By her drive and enthusiasm, Amanda exceeded her fundraising target of $1000 and inspired many others to join in her ongoing fight!
On April 1, Amanda continued her commitment to the cause with the comeback of her annual KO Cancer Bootcamp. She raised an additional $1150 for a total of $2250 donated this year to The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation.
Amanda is the embodiment of perseverance in the face of unthinkable obstacles. She achieved her status as an indominable Champion in 2022, the same year that she suffered the most profound personal loss, the loss of her mother.
Nine years earlier, in October 2013, Amanda’s beloved mother, Nicolina, had been diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. Within months of that diagnosis, Nicolina had a mastectomy and 20 lymph nodes removed from her right breast. After surgery, a serious of debilitating chemotherapy treatments followed. Nicolina faced them all with courage, and unrelenting hope. Yet her battle with cancer persisted, making even day-to-day activities such as walking was a real challenge for her. Every day, Amanda chanelled her mother’s tenacity into her training, and her unbroken reign of matches inside the ring. But tragically, in March 2022, Amanda’s mother’s 8 year battle with cancer came to an end.
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Following her win, Amanda presented her belt to her mother, who has always been in her corner.
What kept Amanda going in 2022? Her mother!
“My incentive to continue fighting was that my mother was my life, I put her first always, that was part of how I lived! I needed to continue to have life after her death!”
2022 was Amanda’s most active year in her fighting career, with 4 fights in 13 Months. Her wins launched her toward becoming the #1 ranked Professional in Canada, and claiming the Canadian super bantamweight title!
“2022 I was truly tested inside and outside the ring, but if I can carry on my mother’s legacy, she was all grit no quit, that is more than enough, so here I am still standing and ready to be more triumphant in 2023. It’s all winning from here!”
Beyond being an incredibly strong individual fighter, Amanda Galle is a proud ambassador of the Fight To End Cancer. She has taken up the collective fight for all those who have suffered from this horrible disease, including her own mother, Nicolina Galle. Amanda has never fallen short in her efforts to raise funds towards cancer research and to advocate for awareness and support for cancer patients.
“When I am asked what the term cancer means to me, I say to you it is responsible for the loss of my loved ones, including my mother.
The term cancer has caused opponents that I have faced to take recognition in defeating me in that ring, but it was not my opponents that beat me, it was the cancer around me. The support I have extended to my family over and over has consumed so much of me.
The term cancer is the reason I train physically 2- 4 hours every day, to better myself mentally! I physically fight with my two hands. Everything my mother had to go through physically, emotionally, and spiritually, that I cannot overcome and fight for her, i put into my fight to end cancer.
So, I do this in honour of her. I do this to execute the rage I feel. I do this to be stable enough to endure it all, and most of all I do this in honour of those that it has defeated.”
~ Amanda Galle
We are grateful for Amanda’s continued enthusiastic determination to Fight To End Cancer in our lifetime! Join Amanda in her Fight To End Cancer…
Amanda will be delivering a double knockout, already launching her 2024 KO Cancer Bootcamp Mar 30, 2024 at 9:30 am.
Amanda has fought to end cancer for years and has only become stronger with each fight in the ring. Her dedication is commendable, and we are so fortunate to have been a part of her journey.
Official Fight To End Cancer Ambassador, Amanda Galle, will be joining forces with The FTEC2024 Fight Team. Together they stand united to Fight The Fight That Affects Us All! With the goal of reaching $3 million in 2024, 100% of all KO Cancer Bootcamp proceeds go to research at The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation.
Amanda not only fights hard inside the ring, she is also doing her part in the Fight To End Cancer outside of the ring supporting the Fight To End Cancer and continuing her mother’s legacy.
DEFEAT IS NOT AN OPTION!
Public Relations Team, Fight To End Cancer
info@fighttoendcancer.com
Donations to our Fight Team can be made at: fighttoendcancer.com.
Photos available upon request.
Interview Opportunities:
Interview Opportunities are available in studio, on site, and via phone or email with:
- Jennifer Huggins (Executive Director and Founder, Fight To End Cancer)
- Virgil Barrow (Fight Team Head Coach, Kingsway Boxing Club)
- FTEC 2023 Fight Team members (contacts available upon request)
- Presenting Partners:
- Landscape Plus Ltd. (Since 2015)
- Grafton Apparel Ltd. (Since 2014)
About The Fight To End Cancer
The Fight To End Cancer (FTEC) is a year-round initiative carried out by ambassadors, sponsors and volunteers worldwide. Over $2,000,000 has been donated to date, since our inaugural year, in 2012. Funds raised by FTEC are donated directly to the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation. Each year we celebrate the incredible hard work and dedication of our FTEC family with a black-tie charity boxing gala. This gala showcases ten men and women who represent our Official Fight Team. Our goal is to raise funds for cancer research year-round with the support of the local community and business owners. Let’s make a difference now in the fight to end cancer, for a long and successful future for everyone. This is an event like no other and has quickly become one of the most anticipated events in Toronto. www.fighttoendcancer.com
About The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation
The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation at University Health Network raises funds for breakthrough research, exemplary teaching and compassionate care at Princess Margaret Hospital and its research arm, the Ontario Cancer Institute, which now includes The Campbell Family Cancer Research Institute and The Campbell Family Breast Cancer Research Institute. More information about the Foundation can be found at www.thepmcf.ca
