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

I'm fighting to honor the memory of my mother, Susan Eaton, and my niece, Kilene Powers, who were both taken from us far too soon by breast cancer.
- Dean Eaton

"Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children." - Chief Sitting Bull

- Victor Lopez-Carmen

“ 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.

- Tracy Deforge

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

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

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

- Kirin Kennedy
Fighters are there to establish an absolute experience, a public accounting of the outermost limits of their beings; they will know, as few of us can know of ourselves, what physical and psychic power they possess- of how much, or how little, they are capable. -Joyce Carol Oates, On Boxing
- Sam Berdinka

"Your battle is our battle" - Boston Local 718 Firefighter and Family Cancer Foundation

- Patrick Nichols

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

- Evan Oscar Papanastasiou