#5 - Mike Dawes, Knocking out suicide.

Mike Dawes founded and runs the IT Heavy Hitters charity boxing match, which has raised over $600k for charity. All proceeds from his events next year go to Voices of Hope. Mike is not usually one to put himself into the spotlight and would rather profile his charities.

Mike is not usually one to put himself into the spotlight and would rather profile his charities. But as a good mate of Mike's, our host Troy felt it his honor and duty to tell his story too.

No stranger to IT himself, his focus over the last 24+ years has been primarily delivering core infrastructure and technology service-orientated solutions, sales, and infrastructure design to delivery of network and server infrastructure, and leadership of infrastructure and operational teams, delivering quality solutions in large enterprise environments.

Mike is also a volunteer firefighter and an around great guy.

As someone who has gone through the IT Heavy Hitters fight camp, our host Troy Hammond is a massive advocate of others doing the same.

So far IT Heavy Hitters has raised over $600,000 for local suicide prevention causes and they are currently working with the team to pull this together again for 2023, with shows in Wellington on May 6th, Auckland City on May 13th, and Auckland North Shore on May 20th.

They'll take a group of IT professionals, provide qualified training and instruction and glove them up. The result is an evening of explosive boxing action. You don't need any experience to fight at IT Heavy Hitters, you'll be trained by professional coaches and helped with all aspects of theory and practical boxing.  On the night you'll choose your walkout song, step into the arena and put all of your training into 3x2 minute rounds, scored and refereed by qualified officials.

Sign up here to become an IT Heavy Hitter and help Mike, Voices for Hope and everyone involve K.O. suicide for good.