Bassil Hafez's Bigger Mission

Welterweight Honors His Late Mother By Raising Money For Families Struggling With Cancer

Baraa Hafez never got to see her son, Bassil, fight. But he saw her fight every day as she battled breast cancer. And he never forgot how she got up every day, went to chemotherapy, then worked a 12-hour shift in the family’s pizza shop, all without complaint.

“That was her,” Bassil Hafez said. “Never thinking about herself, always thinking outward, trying to do what's best for her kids and her family. And not even telling me really how bad her cancer was because she didn't want to mess up my mentality or where I was. Obviously, I wanted to know. But she wouldn't think like that. She would think very…