Her opponent at the Babson fight night was her Harvard teammate Muskaan Sandhu, 18, a freshman, who had sparred before. No one likes getting hit, Ms. Sandhu said, but she liked learning that she could take a punch.<\/p>\n
It made her feel she could do anything. \u201cAfter the fight, I never felt so capable in my life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Modern life \u2014 lived on screens or amid the constant distraction of screens \u2014 can feel isolating. She sees boxing as a way to engage with people. \u201cYou feel really human,\u201d she said. \u201cYou feel a connection with the person you\u2019re fighting. Like we\u2019re in this together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Lake said he intended for Harvard\u2019s club to join the National Collegiate Boxing Association, a nonprofit that provides structure and safety rules. The N.C.B.A. represents about 840 athletes, an 18 percent increase from a year ago, said the group\u2019s president, George Chamberlain, who coaches the University of Iowa\u2019s boxing club.<\/p>\n
The well-attended fight night at Babson, which also included boxers from Brandeis University, reflected the growing interest.<\/p>\n
Before it began, a volunteer passed out waiver documents. Most of the boxers immediately flipped to the end and signed. Mr. Jiang, of Harvard, appeared to be the only one who read it.<\/p>\n
He was a mixed martial arts fan who resolved to try a combat sport in college. \u201cI like the technique side of it,\u201d Mr. Jiang said of boxing, \u201cthe science behind the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n
His fight plan, he explained, was to control the action with his jab and occasionally throw the right hand, to maintain good defense and try to tire out his opponent.<\/p>\n
It seemed a solid strategy \u2014 though, as the heavyweight Mike Tyson famously noted, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Her opponent at the Babson fight night was her Harvard teammate Muskaan Sandhu, 18, a freshman, who had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[243678,703,243679,49,48,12166,9311,82],"class_list":["post-658529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-babson-college","tag-boxing","tag-brandeis-university","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-colleges-and-universities","tag-harvard-university","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}