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About Skeets Gallacher
- Richard "Skeets" Gallacher (24 August 1925 in Renton, Scotland – 10 December 2013) was a British boxer.
- As a boy he was trained as a boxer by his father, who identified him as a natural southpaw.
- Richard was nicknamed Skeets after a film character of the day and had his first fight in 1942 weighing only 7 stones (44 kg).
- Skeets went on to win 34 consecutive amateur contests and in doing so became Scottish and British Champion.
- Defeats of French and American rivals later saw him crowned unofficial amateur flyweight champion of the world.
- His professional career was cut short by injury, but he remained a well-respected figure still involved in later years in keep fit classes and local boxing clubs.
- Gallacher Way in Renton was named after him in 1995.
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