Before Danielle Perkins was a heavyweight title contender, and even before she was a Division I basketball player, she was a chess enthusiast at her after-school program. It’s a hobby she maintains today, one that at first glance seems more in line with her other profession as the manager of a multi-million-dollar portfolio than it is with being a 6’0”, 190-pound slugger. But it’s a passion that has helped create a framework for how she operates inside the ring, and how she thinks about her boxing pursuit.