Cancer doesn't pull punches and neither will you.

Since 2011, Haymakers for Hope has been training and transforming ordinary people into badass amateur boxers entering the ring for their first US Boxing-sanctioned bout - all while raising real money to knock out of cancer by supporting research, care, awareness, and survivorship.

Haymakers boxers commit to four months of intensive boxing training, all culminating in three rounds in front of an amped-up audience at a legit venue. Bragging rights never expire.

You don't need boxing experience. All you need is the mindset to KO cancer.

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No matches near you? don't hang up your gloves yet.

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The hits are real and so is the transformation

Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to knockout cancer the only way we know how, by literally fighting for a cure.

- Greg Feldman
Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to knockout cancer the only way we know how, by literally fighting for a cure.
- Stacey Frumm

Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to knockout cancer the only way we know how, by literally fighting for a cure.

- Kevin O'Halloran

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." - Muhammad Ali

- Cat Flaherty

".....the fighter still remains"

The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel

- Gabriela Ponce

Discipline, doing what you hate to do but do it like you love it.” - Iron Mike

- Jeremy Jenkins
Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to knockout cancer the only way we know how, by literally fighting for a cure.
- Eric Engdahl

Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to knockout cancer the only way we know how, by literally fighting for a cure.

- Kiley Horne

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face - Mike Tyson /

If the game shakes me or breaks me I hope it makes me a better man, take a better stance - Notorious B.I.G.

- Rafael Madrid Jorge
Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to knockout cancer the only way we know how, by literally fighting for a cure.
- Yusuf El Ashmawy