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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The hits are real and so is the transformation

"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine." - Neil Armstrong

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

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

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

If you know the question, you know half.  - Siddhartha Mukherjee (author, The Emperor of All Maladies)

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

I'll take as many punches as it takes to help knock this disease out.

- Melissa Symes

"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward." - Rocky Balboa

- JESSICA SWIFT

Let’s make a difference in the fight against cancer. 

- Bobby Pennington

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t” –Thomas Edison

- Jay Hajj
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