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

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

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

- Vanessa Baca

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

- Zinnat Ferdous

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

- Neil Whittredge
Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to knockout cancer the only way we know how, by literally fighting for a cure.
- Jason Badgley
- Alan Qui
Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to knockout cancer the only way we know how, by literally fighting for a cure.
- Matthew Grace
Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to knockout cancer the only way we know how, by literally fighting for a cure.
- Bill Mancini
Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to knockout cancer the only way we know how, by literally fighting for a cure.
- Tina Cappello

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

- Tom Lotz