All-American Heavyweights is committed to making professional boxing a proud, realistic career choice for America's top athletes. With the help of our rigorous, structured training program and generous financial incentives, boxing can once again compete with sports such as football and basketball for the aspirations and dreams of the nation's best young athletes.
To be sure, only the most talented, dedicated young sporting hopefuls have what it takes to be a true heavyweight champion. At the highest level, 12 three-minute rounds in the ring demand a combination of skill, physical prowess and mental strength that only a chosen few can attain.
At the heart of our vision is a view of boxing as an honorable, proud profession – we want to build boxing careers based on hard work and a commitment to excellence, not on ambitions of fleeting fame and the promise of quick riches.
The Rock: Our State-of-the-art Boxing Academy
The Rock, our elite academy based in Carson, Calif., is the epicenter of the AAH boxing revolution. For the first time, fighters can develop their technique under the supervision of the world's leading boxing coaches while fine-tuning their physical and mental strength using the very latest breakthroughs in sports science, nutrition and psychology.
Smart, wired and fully equipped with state-of-the-art computing and multimedia systems, The Rock is a digital gym for the 21st century. This is where expert instructors record and analyze our boxers' performances in minute detail using the latest sports science technologies.
But our embrace of technology extends well beyond the gym. We know that computer skills are life skills. All of our fighters – and kids from our community in Carson – have access to cutting-edge hardware and software, and are encouraged to enroll in practical computer learning classes.
A Professional Boxing Infrastructure for the 21st Century
To be a healthy, thriving sport, boxing needs more than elite fighters. It needs to re-engineer its infrastructure from the ground up. AAH is committed to working with partners including USA Boxing – of which AAH is a member – to rebuild many of the pillars on which the sport's sustained success will rest. Key elements of our work include:
· Creating an apprenticeship coaching program that gives the next generation of trainers access to the wisdom and expertise
of the best minds in the sport
· Organizing new local, regional and national competitions to simplify the road to the national heavyweight title
· Training the next generation of referees and judges, and working with our partners throughout the sport to implement
uniform licensing standards nationwide
· Establishing a lobbying division that will bring boxing's rules and regulations into the 21st century by making them
consistent and transparent, and by ensuring that they are uniformly applied by state commissions
· Elevating the importance of safety throughout boxing, in part by promoting quality medical training
Next-generation Conditioning and Training
All American Heavyweights places a highly personalized development approach at the heart of its performance training. Backed by more than a decade of research and experience, our methodology is grounded in an unprecedented understanding of how the human body moves, with an emphasis on both the safety of our fighters and the longevity of their careers.
Our interpretation of performance training is deeply rooted in both science and engineering. We teach "the movement of boxing" by synergizing biomechanics, skill development, concepts, strategy, injury prevention, and a mathematical interpretation of the sport. The optimal alignment of these elements, when applied by an expert and highly experienced team, gives the extraordinary athletes with whom we are privileged to work a powerful competitive advantage.
Our first priority, however, is the wellbeing of all those who enter the ring. Our training program ensures that our fighters only compete when they have the skills and physical ability to do so safely.
The AAH Honor Code
The All-American Heavyweight Honor Code is non-negotiable. The Code enshrines the values that every one of us at The Rock pledges to uphold.
The Code is also important for the sustainable success of boxing. Boxing's great opportunity lies not in shedding its hallmark qualities of sportsmanship and integrity, but in re-affirming the timeless relevance of those values – and standing tall above its competition as a result. Boxers who graduate from The Rock will be role models, leaders in their communities, and embodiments of the sporting ideal.
Reclaiming the Spotlight
All-American Heavyweights believes that the finest days of boxing are still to come. With a proven, universal appeal that transcends age, race, class, geography and gender, boxing still occupies a unique place in the world of global sports.
Rebuilt on a platform of respect, honor and integrity, and with fighter safety at its heart, boxing is perfectly positioned to capture – as it once did – the hearts and imagination of sports fans around the world.
Recruiting
Athletes who meet the minimum recruiting standards below are invited to contact Joseph Oniwar at joseph@aa-hw.com.
18-24 years old.
6'3 and up.
210 and up.
Collegiate athletic experience preferred.