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Harvard University freshman Ryan Jiang (left) trades punches with Mr Colin Brazas, a senior from the Babson Boxing Club, during a bout at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, on April 24.
PHOTO: SOPHIE PARK/NYTIMES
Mark Arsenault
WELLESLEY, Massachusetts – No one gets punched in the face during regular training at the Harvard Boxing Club. But this was fight night, and the jabs, hooks and uppercuts were suddenly very real.
Boxers passed the time before their bouts by meditating, jumping rope or punching at mirrors.
