Fighting Chance
The Work

The Work

Seven ways a gym can stand in somebody’s corner.

Every program runs on the same thing that has worked at TCB for years: a real gym, coaches who show up, and a team that expects you back.

Running at TCB now

The Forge

Boxing and combat sports instruction, mentorship, and structured discipline for young people.

Who it’s for: Kids and teens, including youth referred by juvenile justice systems, school districts, social services agencies, and community partners.
What it costs: No cost or reduced cost to participants and their families.
What it teaches: Self discipline, respect, resilience, emotional regulation, conflict resolution, and healthy decision making.

Inside the Forge

Now forming

Scholarships

Scholarship funded training for kids from low income households who would otherwise never get the chance.

Who it’s for: Young people whose families can’t cover combat sports instruction, athletic development, or competition.
How to help: Sponsors and donors fund scholarships directly. Sponsor a fighter.

Now forming

Recovery

Structured martial arts training as a recovery support tool for people in recovery from substance use, alcohol, and other addictions.

Who it’s for: Adults in recovery who want structure, a reason to get up, and people who notice.
How it works: A peer support and wellness model, coordinated where it makes sense with licensed treatment providers, sober living programs, drug courts, and recovery organizations.
What it is not: Clinical treatment. People who need medical or behavioral health care are referred to licensed professionals.

Reach out

Now forming

Mental wellness

Martial arts based wellness programming for people living with anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress, and other mental health challenges.

Who it’s for: Anyone fighting something in their own head and looking for structure, breath, and people around them.
How it works: Training and community at the gym, with referrals to licensed mental health professionals for clinical care.

Reach out

Now forming

Veterans and first responders

Programming for physical fitness, mental health, peer community, and the return to civilian life.

Who it’s for: Veterans, active duty service members, first responders, and their families.
Why a gym: Some people talk it out. Some people need to sweat it out first, next to somebody who gets it.

Reach out

Now forming

Team USA athletes

Support for training, travel, and competition expenses of qualifying amateur athletes representing the United States in international martial arts competition.

Who decides: The board of directors sets the selection criteria.
Fairness: Criteria are applied without regard to any family relationship to the founders, directors, or officers.

Now forming

Community

Public events, demonstrations, and seminars on the history and discipline of boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, wrestling, mixed martial arts, and Olympic Taekwondo.

Partners: Schools, churches, nonprofits, cities, healthcare and behavioral health providers, recovery communities, and sponsors who want to reach more people.

Partner with us

What Fighting Chance is not. Fighting Chance is not a clinical treatment provider and does not deliver medical, psychiatric, or licensed behavioral health services. When someone needs that care, we refer them to licensed professionals. If you are in crisis, call or text 988, or call 911.

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