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

“This fight is for the families, the friends, and the loved ones who taught me what real strength looks like.
- Susanna Walter
Let’s knock out cancer together
- Bechar Hamdan

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

- Mike Lewis
Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to knockout cancer the only way we know how, by literally fighting for a cure.
- Andy Lin
Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to knockout cancer the only way we know how, by literally fighting for a cure.
- Sam Bowles

“When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and the manner in which you live.” -Stuart Scott

- Frank Cadle

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

- Evan Oscar Papanastasiou

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

- Ryan Penn

Cancer may have started the fight, but I’m here to help finish it.

- Tory Bauman

I work every day to build stable and affordable housing for individuals in the DC region. Now I work every dawn and dusk to help fight cancer. 

- John Hare