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I’m stepping back in the ring—maybe limping in 🤦🏼♂️
Eastside
On Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, many kids face challenges and need a safe place to grow. At the same time, our frontline heroes—first responders—carry the emotional weight of working in a stressful environment every day. It can be a tough place to grow up, and a tough place to serve.
EastSide Boxing
Eastside Boxing Club is more than a gym. It’s a safe place where kids find discipline, confidence, and mentorship—and where first responders train, connect, and de-stress. Their programs literally change lives.
Full Disclusure
I fought in Eastside's charity boxing match two years ago, and I’m back for Round 2. I’m training hard despite some persistent issues from a torn hamstring (don’t ask how—I wish it was a cooler story). I fully intend to fight again, but if my leg doesn't cooperate: I'd still like your help to support the kiddos.
Your Impact
When you support this campaign, you’re not just backing me—you’re in the kid’s corner. You’re helping a young person build resilience through boxing. You’re giving a first responder a healthy outlet. You’re helping Eastside keep the lights on and the doors open to those who need it most.
Every dollar you give goes to an incredible organization making a difference.
The Action
You’ll get updates on my training, a front-row view of the impact you’re making, and the satisfaction of knowing you backed something real. You'll also most likely get to see me get punched in the face a few times which I know is a draw for some of you 😂 If I can't sort out this hamsring thing (I think I can), I’ll still be in the gym, doing the work, raising the funds, and representing this community with everything I’ve got.
Let’s go another round!
Hey Vancouver,
It's that time of year again... Eastside Rumble 2025!
Eastside Rumble 2025 will provide much needed funds to support Eastside Boxing Club's free mentorship and training programs for individuals who may otherwise not have the resources or support to participate in recreational sports.
Later that year, the Aprons for Gloves Boxing Association was established and organized the first annual Restaurant Rumble, a fight-night fundraiser that raised over $100,000 to open a new gym: Eastside Boxing Club. AFG and Eastside were developed by a small group of professionals and entrepreneurs who seized an opportunity to re-establish a historic boxing program for at-risk youth. The new club also offered outreach programs specifically for women, survivors of domestic violence, frontline workers, and members of the LGBTQ+ community. These programs were designed to offer free mentorship and training to individuals who may otherwise not have the resources or support to participate in recreational sports. After only six months of operation, a devastating fire forced the club to close. Again, with help from the community and another successful Restaurant Rumble, Eastside was reborn in 2014 in the historic Chinatown neighbourhood at 238 Keefer Street, continuing on the mission to provide boxing training and mentorship opportunities for anyone that is interested in learning the sport, particularly providing a space for youth to train for free. With the advent of Covid and barely surviving the slow return to life, Eastside Boxing Club gratefully rose from the ashes, yet again. We are still fighting to keep the gym alive and we need your help. We are excited to launch Eastside Rumble 2025. Open to all professions, shapes, sizes, skill level and abilities. Show your support by contributing much needed funds to these contenders campaigns to give them the opportunity to fight and to keep Eastside Boxing Club and it's programs living. Thank you! |
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For
more than 30 years the Astoria Boxing Club ran a non-profit
youth program that provided a safe space and mentorship for
at-risk youth in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. In the Spring of
2012, the gym’s funding was cut and the club was forced to close
its doors.
FAQ
https://www.eastsideboxingclub.com/eastsiderumble
Event Date
Fight Night August 14th 2025
