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.

- Xander Whitehouse

"Don't give up...don't ever give up!"

Jimmy V.

- Dawne Galetta
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." - Muhammad Ali
- Lauren McGovern
"Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't." - Rikki Rogers
- Kristina Feliciano

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

- Jack Adamson

"Scars may heal, blood counts may normalize, years may pass. But never again will the simple act of waking up to a normal, boring day as a healthy individual be taken for granted, nor go unappreciated.” - Allison A., American Cancer Society

 

- Patrick Sullivan
If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. ~Bruce Lee
- Stephanie Moniuk

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

- Stephen Berte

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

- Andrea Cincotta

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

- Jake Langlois
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