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Lexington’s Big Ass Fans and the television show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition have teamed up to help a once-promising boxer pass along his talents to the next generation.

“Tim Hill was an aspiring boxer whose boxing dreams collapsed when he broke his back on a construction site,” Big Ass says. “But Hill found a way to stay involved with boxing. He started the Geneva Boxing Team ten years ago to train (underprivileged) kids from ages 8 to 21 to box for free, paying all the expenses himself.”

Hill’s 150-year-old house began to show its age. He wanted to renovate it and add a larger gym for training boxers, but he couldn’t afford it. Extreme Makeover took on the project in Geneva, N.Y., and completed it in seven days.

Big Ass donated the 16-foot Powerfoil ceiling fan that you can see “dominate the ring” in Sunday’s broadcast.

“We are proud to be part of this,” says Big Ass President Carey Smith. “Tim Hill provides a great program for underprivileged kids.”

Big Ass says more than 35,000 of its fans — ranging from 6 feet to 24 feet in diameter — have been installed worldwide in factories, distribution centers, arenas, barns, stadiums, art galleries, restaurants, health clubs and even zoos, plus a certain boxing gym in Geneva, N.Y.

That’s a lot of air power.

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