Ashley Cain to fight in boxing ring for late daughter's cancer charity

Ashley Cain will be fighting at an influencer boxing match for his daughter Azaylia's foundation after she sadly lost her fight against acute myeloid leukaemia in April last year at just eight months old.

The reality star, 31, will box YouTuber Andreas Eskander at the Showstar Boxing event at The SSE Arena, Wembley in London next month.

Former The Challenge star Ashley will take to the ring in the first of eight boxing matches to mark each of the months Azaylia was alive, with the television personality saying: 'I told you I’d forever fight for my daughter. I told you I’d fight for these children. I told you I’d fight for everyone out there suffering loss.

'I am not fighting for recognition, I am fighting for Azaylia and for all of the heroic children battling cancer. 

'In my daughter and her legacy, I have found something worth dying for, so fighting in the ring to raise awareness and funds for a cause embedded in my heart was an easy choice to make.

'It was important for me to take on this boxing challenge because my daughter fought a heroic battle against cancer on this earth for eight months. 

'So I want to honour those eight months with eight bouts in the ring. 

'I promised that even now I will always be the best daddy I can be, I will honour her incredible time here and I will fight till the day I die for other children and their families who face the monster that is cancer.

'I am fighting because my daughter had to and for all those children who are still fighting this monster. 

'So I will fight for a cause which I am passionate about, raising awareness and funds for childhood cancer and also to show people that no matter what you are going through in this world, if you find your reason why and you’re prepared to