Fighting ChanceA nonprofit from the TCB Fight Factory family
Fighting Chance. Everybody’s fighting something.
Nobody should have to fight it alone.
Press and hold. Sound on. This site has a heartbeat.
The fight you can’t see
- Addiction.
- The bottle.
- A house with nobody home.
- The street.
- Grief.
- Anger you can’t put down.
- The war that came home with you.
- The call you can’t unhear.
- The voice that says you’re nothing.
- A record before you’re grown.
- Alone.
So we built a corner.
The corner
Sixty seconds.
Between rounds, a fighter gets one minute on a stool in the corner. Somebody hands them water. Somebody tells them the truth. Somebody who just watched them take a beating still believes they can win.
That minute changes fights. We have watched it change lives.
Fighting Chance is that corner.
A nonprofit started by Aaron and Heather Kimball, the family behind TCB Fight Factory. It puts kids, people in recovery, veterans, first responders, and anyone carrying something heavy in a gym with coaches who show up and a team that won’t let them quit on themselves.
- What
- Arkansas nonprofit corporation
- Filed
- April 2026, from a fight family that goes back to 1909
- Where
- Rogers, Arkansas and Cassville, Missouri
Who we fight for
Pick a corner.
Five kinds of fights. One gym. Start with the one closest to you, or to someone you love.
The Forge
Boxing and combat sports training, mentorship, and structure for young people who are carrying too much.
Kids and teens, including young people referred by schools, juvenile courts, and family service agencies. Training comes at no cost or reduced cost to families.
Aaron Kimball told the Cassville Democrat in 2025 that the gym’s program has had a high success rate with at risk youth, including kids on juvenile probation in Washington County, Arkansas.
Recovery
Training as a recovery support tool, for people rebuilding after drugs, alcohol, or other addictions.
Adults in recovery. It runs as peer support and wellness, coordinated with licensed treatment providers, sober living homes, drug courts, and recovery organizations.
This is not treatment. When someone needs clinical care, we connect them with licensed professionals.
Veterans and first responders
Fitness, peer community, and a place to put the pressure, for the people who served and the families who served with them.
Veterans, active duty service members, police, firefighters, EMTs, and their families. Built around the move back into civilian life and the weight of the job.
The mind
Martial arts based wellness for people living with anxiety, depression, and post traumatic stress.
Anyone fighting something in their own head. Training builds structure, breath, and people around you. Licensed mental health professionals handle clinical care, and we refer to them.
Team USA athletes
Help with training, travel, and competition costs for qualifying amateur athletes who represent the United States in international competition.
Qualifying amateur athletes. The board sets the selection criteria and applies them without regard to family ties to the founders.
The corner crew
We’ve been in this corner a long time.
- 1909
Aaron Kimball’s great grandfather starts in martial arts.
Cassville Democrat, 2025 - 1939
His grandfather follows him onto the mat.
Cassville Democrat, 2025 - 1997
Aaron opens TCB Fight Factory in Rogers, Arkansas.
TCB Fight Factory - 2025
TCB Missouri opens in Cassville, in the old American Legion building on Highway 112.
Cassville Democrat, 2025 - 2026
The family makes it official. Fighting Chance is filed as an Arkansas nonprofit on April 26.
Arkansas Secretary of State
It saved my life in a lot of different ways.
- Nobody starts alone.
Every new student at TCB is paired with a silent mentor: a teammate who becomes their first call.
Source: Cassville Democrat, August 2025
- It already works.
Kids on juvenile probation in Washington County, Arkansas have trained at TCB, and Aaron reports a high success rate with at risk youth.
Source: Cassville Democrat, August 2025
- They build champions.
TCB’s team brought home 11 national championships from the 2025 Arnold Classic, by Aaron’s count. The coaches who build champions are the ones in this corner.
Source: Cassville Democrat, August 2025
Be the corner
This corner is empty.
Somebody is about to need it. Be the one waiting there.
Four ways into the corner.
- Give
Your gift pays for training, mentorship, gear, and travel for people who can’t pay their own way. Give now
- Sponsor
Underwrite a young fighter’s training in the Forge. Businesses and families both. Sponsor a fighter
- Help
Volunteer, mentor, or bring a skill the gym can use. Tell us what you bring. Raise your hand
- Refer
Schools, courts, churches, sober living homes, and employers, send us the people who need a corner. Make a referral
Pick your gift.
Give $60Online giving is being connected. Pick an amount and we’ll take your pledge now, then reach out to complete it.
You will finish on Cash App, where the account shows as TCB Fight Team ($tcbfight2032).
Fighting Chance is an Arkansas nonprofit corporation. Ask us about the tax status of your gift before you give.