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

Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right. - Muhammad Ali
- Stephens Johnson
Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to knockout cancer the only way we know how, by literally fighting for a cure.
- Conrado Rodrigues
Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to knockout cancer the only way we know how, by literally fighting for a cure.
- Danny Agnew

"To fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs."

- Charles Bukowski

- Jonathan Post
Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to knockout cancer the only way we know how, by literally fighting for a cure.
- Greg Pickett
Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to knockout cancer the only way we know how, by literally fighting for a cure.
- Rafael Montes

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

- Callie Simpkins

“ You may have to fight a battle more then once to win it” -Margaret Thatcher 
 


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

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

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

- Joseph Byron