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

We give everyday men and women the opportunity to fight back against this terrible disease by training for, and competing in charity boxing events to raise money and awareness. To prepare for each event, we combine the efforts of the first time amateur boxing participants, local boxing gyms and volunteers. We hope to help give life saving researchers the resources needed to fully focus their efforts on finding a cure.

- Erika Nelson
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
- Andy Burr

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

- Ryan Scheiderman

We give everyday men and women the opportunity to fight back against this terrible disease by training for, and competing in charity boxing events to raise money and awareness. To prepare for each event, we combine the efforts of the first time amateur boxing participants, local boxing gyms and volunteers. We hope to help give life saving researchers the resources needed to fully focus their efforts on finding a cure.

- Logan Dobson

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

- Jamie Pollock

"Pain is weakness leaving the body."
- Unknown

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

Christopher's Haven: A Home for Kids when Cancer Hits Home.

- Chris Broderick

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

- Jonathan Cutler

"To survive it is often necessary to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself." --George Orwell

- Aaron Bible