Step Into the Ring with Haymakers

Cancer doesn't pull punches and neither will you.

Forget everything you think you know about charity boxing matches

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.

- Jacob Meyers

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

- Brian Lohan

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

- John Emerson

You can't always be the strongest or most talented or most gifted person in the room, but you can be the most competitive. - Pat Summitt

- Sue Bator

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

- Andrew Neelon

"Our deepest fear is not that we are weak. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us."

- Krystal Krejcik